The Deportivo Cali, led by former Venezuelan coach Rafael Dudamel, became champion of the Finalization Tournament this Wednesday. Colombia by beating at home by 1-2 at Sports Tolima in the second leg of the final.
The Verdiblanco club thus conquered its tenth league title.
The Azucareros came back in the second half a game that they started losing at 13 minutes.
The extreme Jhon Vasquez equalized in minute 58 and the scorer scored a penalty Harold Preciado set 1-2 in ’74.
The central Julian Quinones put forward the champion Deportes Tolima, who was covered today by his followers, who filled the stands of the stadium Manuel Murillo Toro, from Ibagué.
In the first leg, both teams drew 1-1.
The game started very fought in the middle of the field, where the hard game prevailed and it was played away from the areas.
The first approach was made by the Tolima with a free kick of Daniel Cataño at minute 10 he passed near the right post of the Uruguayan goal Guillermo de Amores.
However, the hosts found the goal at 13 on a corner kick taken by Catano in which Quinones, who struggled with the Uruguayan Hernan Lessse, managed to head and send the ball to the back of the net to celebrate the crowd that filled the stadium with Ibague.
The Cali He had many difficulties after the goal, as he found himself in front of a well-organized and very dangerous wall that, if neglected, could do a lot of damage to the counterattack.
The first and only opportunity for the ‘Azucareros’ in the initial stage had it at 17 Preciado with a mid-distance shot that the goalkeeper handcuffed William Cuesta to send the corner kick.
Despite this opportunity, the team of Dudamel had great difficulty getting out of the funnel into which the set of Ibague.
For the complementary stage, the Cali went out to overwhelm his rival under the leadership of Teo Gutierrez, who took the reins of the team began to associate, mainly with Preciado, to get out of the funnel.
The context, however, was also positive for the Tolima who found spaces and hurt the kickback with Silver, which wasted 2-0 in a heads up with Of loves in which he made a bad decision at minute 55.
That was charged by those led by Dudamel just three minutes later in a great team play that began Andres Colorado, in which Teo participated, in which the midfielder made a filtered pass Jhojan Valencia, in which forward Angelo Rodríguez pivoted and in which Vásquez entered the area comfortably to get a right hand that equalized the game.
The Cali kept attacking; had a very clear one with Teo who got tangled up and could not finish off just in front of the goal, and got a penalty at minute 73 for a hand from the central defender Eduar Caicedo in a corner kick.
A minute later Valued, with a very strong right hand that was nailed in the upper left corner of the arch of Cost, he scored his 13th goal in the championship, which confirms him as the top scorer of the tournament.
The hosts, who saw the title go away at home, had a lot of difficulties to attack and the players who entered in the final minutes – the Venezuelan Yohandry orozco, the scorer Juan Fernando Caicedo placeholder image and the extremes Luis Miranda Y Andrey Estupiñán– they weighed few.
The Cali was cooling the match until the referee John ospina whistled the end and the players celebrated with Dudamel, who won his first title as a coach with the team he is a fan of and with which he was runner-up in the Libertadores Cup as a goalkeeper in 1999.
Data sheet:
1. Sports Tolima: William Cuesta; Harold Gómez, Julián Quiñónes, Eduar Caicedo, Junior Hernández; Cristian Trujillo, Juan Ríos (m.80, Yohandry Orozco), Daniel Cataño (m.65, Juan Fernando Caicedo), Omar Albornoz (m.78, Andrey Estupiñán), Anderson Plata (m.78, Luis Miranda) and Gustavo Ramírez .
Trainer: Hernán Torres.
2. Deportivo Cali: Guillermo de Amores; Juan Esteban Franco (m.52, Juan Camilo Angulo) Hernán Menosse, Jorge Marsiglia, Kevin Velasco; Andrés Balanta (m.52, Andrés Colorado), Jhojan Valencia, John Vásquez (m.78, José Caldera), Harold Preciado, Teófilo Gutiérrez (m.83, Michael Ortega) and Ángelo Rodríguez.
Trainer: Rafael Dudamel.
Goals: 1-0, m.13: Julián Quiñones. 1-1, m.58, Jhon Vásquez. 1-2, m.74: Harold Preciado, from a penalty.
Referee: Jhon Ospina, who admonished Eduar Caicedo, Anderson Plata and Gustavo Ramírez from Deportes Tolima, and Jhojan Valencia, Teo Gutiérrez, Jhon Vásquez, Angelo Rodríguez and Juan Camilo Angulo, from Deportivo Cali.
Incidents: Second leg of the Colombian league final played at the Manuel Murillo Toro stadium in Ibagué.
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