This Sunday against Santa Fe (1-1) marks the leader’s second consecutive draw, Deportivo Cali, in the BetPlay I-2021 League, only to face a tough rival like the capital’s cast.
However, Coach Alfredo Arias believes that the action that led to the partial advantage, converted into a goal by Sherman Cárdenas, was not a penalty as the rules in that regard are clear when the ball hits the buttocks first and then the hand of the a defender. (in this case the winger Darwin Andrade).
The Uruguayan was consulted on whether it is time to consider other attacking alternatives following the low production of Ángelo Rodríguez and Marco Pérez: better at training, to those who give more attack power, I don’t think I’ll betray myself and I don’t want to say, if I had someone else I would ”.
Regarding whether Santa Fe is the most complicated opponent he has faced, he replied, “I don’t know if it has been the most complicated, but a very good team, it’s been, I said it before the game. , we faced a very tough opponent, very good In all respects, and that it was going to be a match like we’ve all had in the Championship, we haven’t had it easy, besides, we’ve had the arbitration decisions against, outside of the VAR and so, a match where you get a penalty kick after 16 minutes, with a rival like Santa Fe who defends very well later on, who has his goal almost unbeaten in so many games, it is not easy to look for him because you have space you give him the ease to counterattack and liquidate you, my players boldly went forward, conquered, wanted and created the odds, so much so that they canceled some of us, they ker canceled properly, because the VAR is not wrong in that. After the other we overcame a goalkeeper expulsion, we were 20 minutes or more with one less player, I have to judge what my team is doing. Also to say that a penalty that takes the ball to the butt of a player and then goes to the hand is not a penalty for me, but until we unite criteria it will follow that the VAR will serve to to collect, such a ball is not a penalty according to the rules ”.
On how he analyzes his team’s performance after goalkeeper Guillermo De Amores’s expulsion, he said that “the team behaved well, both after the penalty, which was badly awarded for me, and later because of the expulsion . . Our team was always looking, it’s not easy against a team like Santa Fe, who come up with those numbers, to create goal odds, but our team was always looking. Even with 10 of us, we had a chance to score and Santa Fe. I’m proud of these guys, it was a very tough test, more in character than anything, I don’t know if it’s tactical, but we wanted to win all the time, we went to see by exposing ourselves in the spaces, but knowing that if we put intensity and pressure on it, we would cause a lot of trouble for our rival ”.
Arias also referred to what cost them the most in this match against the ‘cardinal’ cast: ‘It’s when they finish the goal and you lie on your back and the ball hits your body, cuts off your hand, after it hits the goal. bottom of the player, then we play against a really good team, a great team, that handles the concepts really well, that has been working for a long time and its technical staff does a great job, but we brought it up, I think I am proud of that tactically and in the effort of my team ”.
Midfielder Andrés Colorado, for his part, referred to the question of whether the draw resulted in a prize: “I don’t feel like it was a prize, we had a lot of goals, unfortunately we didn’t specify them and the ones we unfortunately specified were out. the game, I feel the team did a great job, a great effort when we were left with 10 players, we even had goals, I don’t see it as a prize, but as a result of the two teams’ approach, although I think we deserve a little more for the goals we scored ”.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Futbolred correspondent
Cali
On Twitter: @marquitosgarces