The classic of the Valle del Cauca arrived and the party was red from beginning to end, a party that Juan Fernando Quintero asked and that was fulfilled.
The victory of América de Cali against Deportivo Cali by 2-0 left the best sensations and served to make the winner take out his patio rival from the eight, also consolidating among the best in the semester.
A match with the Quintero authority but also the great work of Holgado and Mena left Alfredo Arias team beaten, who could not correct the irregularity and the obvious lack of offensive power that has been the constant and that was very evidenced in the classic.
Caldera, from Central Defensor to number 9
And in the need to find the goals, DT Arias surprised, and losing the game, with the entry of José Caldera not as a central defender, his natural position, but as number 9.
The surprise was total and the Uruguayan strategist justified it with a simple argument: “We had no more strikers, that's why we put boiler and almost scores,” he said at a press conference.
But he did not make the goal although he had a clear option in which he hit the grass more than the ball. And that is why the fans wondered if that desperate exit was more fruit of improvisation and anguish than of conscious work.
Was it rehearsed or was it only despair?
Javier Reina talked about the change and intention of the DT and made it clear that he did work with Caldera as a front center: “The idea was to have more aerial football, we won it with boiler, we know Calde and we know how strong it is above, there we saw an option to lower a ball and harm them,” he said.
Less clues gave Jarlan Barrera, although he acknowledged that, indeed, they have no more: “I do not make the changes, the teacher will know his reasons, I think Caldera had a notion of goal, it was to look for a little more power in the attack front, but this depends on everyone, we put the chest to a very complicated situation that Sports Cali has been going through,” he acknowledged.
The problem was not the essay but, in the end, it did not work. And the Cali is ninth with 23 points, the same of the eighth, but with a difficult calendar at the closing of the Betplay Liga I 2025.
Alfredo Arias told post classic press conference @Americadecali 2 @AsodePorcali 0, that the change from the bank, of Caldera de 9 is because it does not have more.
We asked Queen and Jarlan if he had rehearsed in week or was it something circumstantial? pic.twitter.com/rUeVx3fhGv– Alfonso Morales Movilla (@Ponchomorales85) April 28, 2025
