Millionaires collapsed. Its structure collapsed. He entered his worst moment of the season. They had just missed out on the Copa Libertadores and now, when their goal is to reach the League final, they lost at home 0-1 against Bucaramanga and compromised their aspirations. To make matters worse, Pereira beat Junior in Barranquilla, 2-3 and is the leader. (You may be interested: Deportivo Pereira gave the big blow in group A: they beat Junior in Barranquilla)
Millonarios made mistakes again, having problems generating play. In the first half it cost him a lot. From time to time he managed to get his talented players together and that’s how Rivaldo threw a cross that Mackalister Silva He connected in a fall and the ball went over the goal when the fans were already shouting what seemed like it was going to be a goal. Silva himself, arriving again without a mark, had a shot that was disturbing, but it went wide. Millonarios suffered, once again, from his lack of clarity. In attack, without Castro and without Giordana, the young Carvajal gave his fight, with good movements, but the only one he had, already in the second half, he threw it away.
Bucaramanga found some spaces on the wings to attack, but almost always failed in the final pass. Of course, he had a very good opportunity to score when Cuesta scored a header after a corner kick. He was alone, unmarked, but his shot went over the goal. The first half of the blues and yellows was weak.
In the second half things improved. Bucaramanga risked more, wanted to show its daring in Bogotá, and almost paid dearly with a brutal counterattack by Millonarios. The ball was left to Mackalister, who had already missed twice and did not want to miss the third time, he was left with an excellent outlook, in a race towards the goal, with space, with time, the goalkeeper felt shot before the shot, and when Silva served The shot hit the ball against the post, and Mackalister couldn’t believe it.
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Bad luck fell for Millonarios with all its drama, because in the next play Bucaramanga’s goal came. And what a goal. Was Joider Micolta The one who did magic, fell in the eastern sector, made a couple of feints, left Llinás and Alfonzo on the road and when he had the profile he hit a huge right hand, the ball rose and hit at a complete angle, while goalkeeper Montero was trying to do something impossible. It was 0-1 in 52 minutes.
Millonarios couldn’t lose and they lost, they didn’t have many weapons on the bench, they lost Hernández, another injured player, and Vega, one more, and as if that weren’t enough, Carvajal ate the tying goal with a bad header. Bucaramanga played a perfect second half, looked very solid, and scored the goal that put him in the race and almost scored the second on a great shot by Mosquera.
Everything went wrong for the blue team, which lost a fundamental game at home and is now last in group A with 3 points.