In a duel with few emotions and in which the teams did not risk too muchAtlético Bucaramanga and Millonarios tied without goals in a crucial game of the quadrangular A of the BetPlay League 2024-I. This result is of no use to either team, both teams that complicated their aspirations of advancing to the final of the tournament.
You may be interested in: Junior breaks the market and buys a key player from the Uruguayan National Team
Millonarios, who arrived in Bucaramanga after a painful defeat in Bogotá against the same rival, urgently needed a victory to keep the hope of qualifying alive. However, the tie left them bottom with just 4 points, while the ‘leopards’ are in second position with 5 points, two less than the leader Deportivo Pereira.
The match at the Alfonso López Stadium in Bucaramanga was intense from the first minute, although with few scoring options. The pressure was felt both on the field and on the benches, and this was evident in a tense exchange between the Bucaramanga coach, Rafael Dudamel, and the central referee Diego Ulloa.
In the midst of the maelstrom of the game, Dudamel and Ulloa were involved in a verbal exchange that ended with a yellow. Although during the match it was not clear what happened, after the game the Venezuelan coach referred to the situation.
“The match was so demanding, so tense that even the main referee himself fell into that adrenaline, that tension that earned me a yellow card for disrespecting me. “When he approached me (Ulloa) he told me to go to hell and on top of that he gave me a yellow card,” Dudamel began by saying.
In that sense, he said that the referee later recognized that he had made a mistake: “Later he admitted to me that it was the tension of the game. “It was a highly demanding match for everyone,” said Dudamel about his encounter with Ulloa.
