In the afternoon and evening of Sunday, December 1, 2024, the third date of group B of the final home runs of the BetPlay League of the second semester of the BetPlay League was played.
América de Cali faced Deportes Tolima, while Once Caldas played its match against Junior de Barranquilla.
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Early in the morning, América defeated the team led by David González 4-2 at the Pascual Guerrero stadium. The goals in favor of the Scarlet team were scored by Cristian Barrios, Adrián Ramos and Edwin Velascowhile for Tolima the goals were scored by Brayan Guzmán and Brayan Gil.
With this victory, the team led by Jorge ‘Polilla’ da Silva has four points, which is why it is still alive to reach the final of the second half of the tournament.
Once Caldas, for its part, defeated Junior de Barranquilla 2-1. Hernán Darío ‘el Arriero’ Arriera’s team started losing the game, because Carlos Bacca, at minute 40 of the first half, managed to open the scoring in favor of the Tiburón team. Once Caldas’ comeback goals were scored by Dayro Moreno and Esteban Beltrán.
- Deportes Tolima: 7 points – 4 games played (goal difference of 0)
- Once Caldas de Manizales: 6 points – 4 games played (goal difference of 1)
- América de Cali: 4 points – 4 games played (goal difference of 0)
- Junior de Barranquilla: 4 points – 4 games played (goal difference of -1)
Jorge ‘Polilla’ da Silva, América de Cali coach, once the match against Deportes Tolima was over, stated the following in a press conference: “I don’t like to analyze rivals. Today the big change was in America. He forced Tolima to play in a certain way (…) America came out to propose, any result other than victory left us eliminated. It wasn’t just that we put in, that we pushed. “We had to react and they did it in a spectacular way.”
And he added: “We played a very good game. In the first half, Tolima comes to us twice in 45 minutes. We proposed the game in their field, we generated several situations. We lacked the aim to increase the score. This group has character, personality, we had to make changes that worked for us.
Hernán Darío ‘el Arriero’ Herrera, coach of Once Caldas, once the match against Junior de Barranquilla had finished, stated in a press conference that the team’s change in the second half was “a scolding from the boar, that’s what changed.”
“We saw that there were players who were very short, they were not in the game and we had to scold them, we had to improve many things, attack more, cover Junior’s wings, take away Cantillo who was throwing a lot,” said the Blanco Blanco coach.
And he added: “My players understood that it was a final for us. Congratulate them, congratulate Beltrán who came in very well, he is a home player, from Manizales“He showed very great things and for him to continue playing like that, he deserves it, what he did changed the history of the game for me.”
The Major Division of Colombian Soccer (Dimayor) delivered the schedule for date five of the home run phase of the BetPlay League of the second semester.
Group B will be in charge of starting the double day on December 4, starting with the match between Once Caldas and América de Cali at the Palogrande stadium in Manizales at 6:30 pm
Subsequently, the duel will take place between Deportes Tolima and Junior de Barranquilla. The sports venue will be the Roberto Meléndez metropolitan stadium from the capital of the Atlantic, at 8:30 pm
On December 5, the date will end with the game between Atlético Nacional and Deportivo Pasto, the assigned stadium is the Itagüí metropolitan stadium in the department of Antioquia, a game that will be at 6:30 pm
The closing is in charge of a new edition of the capital classic between Independiente Santa Fe and Millonarios at the Nemesio Camacho El Campín stadium in Bogotá at 8:30 p.m. m.
