The Deportivo Caliled by Venezuelan coach Rafael Dudamel, climbed to the top of Group E of the Cup Liberators 2022. With its 3-0 victory this Thursday against Always Ready, the team took Boca Juniors temporarily out of the qualifying zone to the round of 16.
The extreme John Vasquez scored a double (12, 55) and served an assist so that Santiago Mosquera completed the landslide (74) of the locals.
Always Ready said goodbye to the cup with a pale game and suffered the expulsion of the Bolivian nationalized Cameroonian Marc Enoumba for a double yellow card (70).
With a date to play, Dudamel’s Deportivo Cali leads the group with 8 units, the same as the Brazilian Corinthians, but with an advantage due to better goal difference.
The Argentine giant Boca Juniors fell to third place with 7 units, but has the opportunity to recover the quota against Cali, who will visit them next week at La Bombonera.
Corinthians will receive the sentenced Always Ready (4 points) in the final day.
The victory guarantees the Colombians, at least, third place in the group, which gives space to the second round of the South American.
He also vindicates the bet of the Venezuelan DT Rafael Dudamel, who resigned for weeks in the local tournament to focus entirely on the Libertadores.
Reconciliation
Indifferent to the scarce presence of the public in the stands of the Deportivo Cali stadium, the locals they went out looking for reconciliation with a fan enraged by the bad campaign in the Colombian league.
In the first minutes of the game, the sugar offensive unloaded blows with the same persistence of the deluge that fell on the field. Arriving at the quarter of an hour, Yony González entered the Bolivian area and served a killer pass for winger Jhon Vasquéz to open the scoring.
Emboldened after rising to the top of Group E, Cali went in search of more goals, which are never enough in the face of a close definition like the one promised by the final date. However, the ColombianIf they found an enemy in their own field, damaged by dozens of pits and ledges that tripped the attackers several times.
The Bolivians, who needed a draw to stay alive in the Cup, did not show the audacity that allowed them to defeat the giant Corinthians in the first date of the group. They only disturbed the Cali goal with a lukewarm shot from Colombian Gustavo Torres.
twin goals
In an effort to get back into the fight for the round of 16 spot, Always Ready manager Eduardo Villegas replaced winger Cristhian Árabe at halftime by the attacker of the Bolivian national team Juan Carlos Arce.
But the Maple Rabbit was unable to get his teammates into the game and the team suffered another goal in the first minutes of the complement.
It was a play almost traced to the first goal. This time the winger Santiago Mosquera reached the bottom line with his gambeta and he dropped a low cross for Vasquez. The footballer took advantage of the blunder of a defender to complete the double.
When it looked like things couldn’t get any worse for Always Ready, Marc Enoumba took to the ground to anticipate Mosquera and the Colombian flew through the air. The Venezuelan referee Alexis Herrera did not hesitate to expel the defender born in Cameroon.
Before an evicted rival, Dudamel’s men walked. With 15 minutes to go, Mosquera rounded off the win driving another low serve that came from the right flank.
There was even a chance to give minutes to a 17-year-old named Juan José Mina, the younger brother of Everton’s Colombian defender Yerry Mina.
