Both clubs have Copa Libertadores in the week, one prioritized competitions, the other not.
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February 27, 2023, 12:20 a.m. m.
Millonarios played one of the worst games in the Alberto Gamero era last week when he visited the Catholic University of Ecuador in a match that had no emotions on either side and as if that were not enough, left a goalless draw between the two teams to finish history in phase 2 of the Copa Libertadores in Bogotá.
For their part, Deportivo Independiente Medellín also had to play their luck in the first game of the series in Ecuador visiting El Nacional, but the feeling was similar in a match that they started winning and suffered to finally equalize by two goals. The return will be on Wednesday, March 1, while Millonarios will play on Thursday 2.
Medellín closed the Sunday date with a victory as a visitor once morest Alianza Petrolera as a visitor and David González gave a ‘lesson’ to Alberto Gamero’s Millionaires. The Antioquia team with extremely different realities in the BetPlay League than the ambassadors, took to the field in Barrancabermeja with a team that few pieces protected beyond the substitution of Andrés Cadavid. Luciano Pons forward, Émerson Batalla, Felipe Pardo and Éver Valencia who alternate between substitutes and starters, Andrés Ricaurte usually starts with Daniel Torres who also alternates and a defense made up of Víctor Moreno and Jhon Palacios who have been recurring starters lately to overcome the oil tankers .
Of course, Medellín is in the bottom positions of the standings, while Millonarios is in the middle of the boxes, but the Antioquians who will have less rest to face that match once morest El Nacional managed to get the result with usual pieces, while Millionaires by Alberto Gamero opted to prioritize the skills he has at stake with five starting youth players and several rookies. The young blood did not turn out as expected in a narrow defeat once morest Once Caldas in Manizales.
The feeling that Alberto Gamero was left with is that there is nowhere to get to sign a second squad when it is Millonarios’ turn to play in the BetPlay League and Copa Libertadores week, but neither the homegrown players nor the few veterans that Gamero took into account dazzled in Manizales . David González, knowing the doubts that he had to clear up, went out with a club without much news and took the game forward when he needed it most. Now, if he goes to the next phase, González will surely have to prioritize, but it looks like a better B squad than the short of Millonarios who had to promote several youth players to the first team
In the middle of a week with international competition for Medellín and Millonarios, the Antioquia team will question Alberto Gamero’s idea for the future. Would it be necessary to prioritize so much to such an extent of using an alternate team, or would the usual team reach the Cup game? Well, David González did not save anything and with his usual payroll he extracted oil in Barrancabermeja, while Once Caldas extracted gold from the youth team of the albiazul team.
