Patriotas and Alianza FC faced each other at the start of the Sunday matchday of the BetPlay Dimayor League. A match in which the two teams that were at the bottom of the table faced each other, and regardless of the result, both are already eliminated for the home runs.
Prior to this match, the local team had just lost a 3-0 defeat against Independiente Santa Fe on matchday 14. While the visitors began by losing in the Copa Sudamericana by losing 1-0 against Unión La Calera in Valledupar.
The match began evenly for both squads, where each one sought to impose themselves on the field of play, and not leave any space for the rival.
The first big action would be for the visiting team, after the match had begun, they had the opportunity to get ahead on the scoreboard. However, the Alianza striker’s shot made the goalkeeper of the local team.
But the situations would become more complicated in the first half, since at 21 minutes Patriotas would have a penalty in their favor, after an Alianza player knocked down the winger of the Boyacense team in the area. The person in charge of making the charge would be the experienced forward, Cristian Martínez Borja, but he did not have the cunning of the visiting goalkeeper, and he ended up stopping the action.
Already in the second half, Alianza FC would have the clearest option, after 64 minutes of the complementary period, they took the lead partially thanks to the forward, Sebastián Acosta. However, the match judge ended up annulling the goal because there was a foul prior to the action.
This is how the match between Patriotas and Alianza FC was equal, thus officially sealing the elimination for the home runs. In this way, the locals finished the day 15th in the last place with 12 points. While the visitors finished second to last with 13 points.
The next matches for Boyacenses and Vallenatos will be against Atlético Bucaramanga for the BetPlay Cup, and against Cruzeiro for the Sudamericana respectively.