Santa Fe defeats Once Caldas and qualifies for the FPC finals

Once Caldas and Independiente Santa Fe faced each other at the Palogrande stadium. Direct rivals in the fight for qualification to the top eightthe people of Bogotá took the best of their roster to Manizales and on the local team, Billy Arce reappeared, accompanying Araújo and Torres.

Only in the first minute of the game, Santa Fe had a free kick in its favor and close to the area. Hugo Rodallega asked to hit him and with a strong shot, he beat goalkeeper Ezequiel Mastrolía. Great goal from the captain of the cardinal team who went ahead very early on the scoreboard, taking advantage of the still ball option.

After the visitors’ goal, Once Caldas went all out to find the tie. The white team used everything to reach Mosquera Marmolejo’s goal clearly and were about to achieve equality. Arce was the most unbalancing man, but he also tried with Moreno, Araújo and Torres.

As time went by, Santa Fe became better positioned on the playing field and recovered from the intensity that Eleven proposed in attack. The visiting team knew how to have the ball and counteract the rival’s arrivals into their area. What did not improve compared to the game against Nacional was in its own attack.

The team had good moments of recovering the ball in the middle of the field or at the start of the Eleven, However, as in Bogotá, they did not know how to resolve in three quarters of the field forward. He did not have the clarity to be effective in the last play and on other occasions, Caldas took the ball away from him before entering the area.

Second half: Triumph and classification of Santa Fe

In the second half, in Santa Fe he entered Velásquez replaced Zuluaga, Scarpeta also replaced Millán due to an injury and Santiago Mera and Esteban Beltrán entered the Eleven. The locals looked for the tie with possession of the ball and play in the opposite field, but Santa Fe stopped well.

Santa Fe also tried to get there, but with the same problems as the first half in getting closer to the locals’ goal. The match was closely contested rather than played and both teams lived it with intensity. Caldas tried to use their wings more to get closer to the Mosquera goal, but was controlled by the visitors.

In the end, Santa Fe took care of the result, stood up well in defense and midfield and did not allow Caldas to reach the Mosquera goal with real danger. Peirano’s team did a good job as a visitor and achieved its first goal of the semester.

With this result, Santa Fe reaches 31 points and is classified for the semi-finals of the BetPlay League. For its part, Once Caldas remains with 28, in sixth place in the standings. On the next day, The cardinals will face América de Cali in El Campín and Once will visit Junior in Barranquilla.