Santa Fe continues with the lion's pace: it won again and now eliminated América in El Campín

Santa Fe does not give in, it does not loosen, it remains solid, oiled, strong. The lion announces that in the home runs he is going to put up a fierce fight. He wants his rivals to take him into account, he wants to scare them. This time he didn't need to play his best game, he didn't need to be a devastating express, he was simply accurate, effective, and that doesn't come for free, it's a virtue.

80 minutes passed before that goal finally came down to the field and made all those fans roar that once again came en masse to the stadium. In America they were heartbroken, because with that goal they said goodbye to the championship, with that goal their fight and their chances ended, and the worst of all, or what hurts them the most, is that when that goal came, Santa Fe had a lion At least, he was with 10 for the expulsion of Diego Hernandez at minute 58.

Santa Fe did not have a comfortable match, it was not superior, it did not have total control of the game. But he resolved what was necessary against a faded America, which played as if it did not depend on victory. As if I didn't need it. He played at a medium pace and when he wanted to react, time was already a lethal sentence.

Santa Fe fans never lost hope that the goal would come. They, who were already classified and who see how their team is determined to be the protagonist this semester, sensed that at any moment the goal would fall to El Campín. They are the ones who believe, but they are also the ones who know this team best. They were enthusiastic about the auctions of Jersson González who had two opportunities and kicked with the guayo backwards. The ball went out in both. Or with that chalaca Hugo Rodallega in the first part. A gesture that the scorer masters, that he has been looking for and perhaps one day it will come out. His chalaca looked spectacular, although the ball took an unwanted height. He went over the top.

Rodallea himself made the fans and even some reporters shout a goal, when he took a free kick in the 78th minute, the ball went with effect, towards the goal, and touched the net, but from the side, outside. Rodallega took his face in his hands and laughed, like someone remembering a mischief before the devil. Daniel Torres also had a tremendous shot that went with sparks near the goal. Everything was planned for the goal to arrive.

Meanwhile, América fans may regret that their team came close with difficulty, that they had numerical superiority for 30 minutes and that they could not even find the goal. When America arrived, he either defined poorly or ran into the agile goalkeeper Marmolejo, who already in the first half had diverted shots from Jeisson Palacios and another from Harold Rivera.

When Hernández was expelled, the normal thing, the expected thing, was for América to take control, to go after his rival, to crush him. But none of that happened. If anything, America created a couple of good opportunities that due to some clumsiness he couldn't finish. One was in a side cross in which Holgado first kicked into the air and then, behind him, Edwar López sent it out, and another when Jeisson Palacios was left alone, very alone, extremely alone, and missed with a header against the great Marmolejo.

Until the ball reached Chaverra, after a cross from Meléndez, and Chaverra did not disappoint. He lowered the ball, settled down, looked at the immensity of the goal and took his shot so that the Santa Fe fans would not be left with the cry of a goal stuck in their throats.

PABLO ROMERO
Editor of EL TIEMPO
@PabloRomeroET