Millionaires increased the number of games without losing in the League to ten, but maintained a curious trend: giving up points against teams that are fighting not to be relegated. The only one that beat Cali. They lost to Once Caldas in Manizales, tied with Huila in Neiva and This Sunday they drew 1-1 with Unión Magdalena in Santa Marta.
Millonarios appealed to a practically substitute roster to face the Union, with only one starter, Álvaro Montero, and another located in a different position and another profile: Jorge Arias went from being a left-back to a right-central. The others watched from outside the start of the match against Peñarol in Montevideo in the Copa Sudamericana.
The controversial penalty that put the Union ahead
That team from the first stage was overtaken by Unión Magdalena, who played as if they did not have the relegation cross behind them and who went ahead with a controversial penalty, after the center-back Ferney Trujillo sanctioned, with the help of from VAR, a foul by Jorge Arias against Isaac Camargo.
The affected man himself stood in front of the ball and misplaced goalkeeper Montero to put his team ahead, at minute 38, while the Millonarios players claimed a play, minutes before, in the local area, in which Pereira fell inside from the area and Trujillo did not consider it a foul.
✅ PENALTY: Jorge Arias is going through the arm of the Union player for a long time. On top of that there is also a blow with the knee below, which ends up making him stumble and fall. For me, the yellow for Arias was missing, it was a promising attack #LALIGAxWIN pic.twitter.com/yTRuHD5rBj
— The Central VAR (Andrés) (@ElVarCentral) April 23, 2023
Gamero had to appeal to pieces from the first team to straighten the game: Mackalister Silva, Elvis Perlaza and Óscar Cortés came off the bench for the second half and Édgar Guerra, Andrés Murillo and Kliver Moreno went to rest. And with those changes, the team improved somewhat, but without creating options.
Another window of changes allowed Gamero to make another modification: he took out Israel Alba, from a very weak game, and put in Daniel Cataño, who solved at least the tie with a great goal from a free kick, at 75. It was the first goal that Get Millionaires this way in 114 League games.
Cataño, who had a yellow card for a brush with Fabián Cantillo, was saved after the expulsion for a stomp on Brayan Correa that the center-back did not see. It should be remembered that the VAR does not call the judge in plays with double warnings.
⚠️ He should have been sent off: Daniel Cataño was already reprimanded and stepped on the player Correa in an action that should have been conceptualized as reckless (yellow). The referee Trujillo was in front of the play but did not apply the disciplinary correction #LALIGAxWIN pic.twitter.com/ARpW0sIUaP
— The Central VAR (Andrés) (@ElVarCentral) April 24, 2023
Millonarios maintained their undefeated record, now in ten rounds, and is preparing for a fierce batch: América in El Campín, Junior in Barranquilla and then, two games in 24 hours, against América Mineiro and Envigado. Momentum keeps him up.
Jose Orlando Ascencio
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