Junior and a visitor’s mess are

Junior is immersed in the auction of the League, South American and Cup calendars. In the first he has already confirmed his classification, in the ‘Suda’ he comes second with the two finals of Group H at home and in the Cup is above Santa Faith by winning the first leg.

There are 14 matches in fifty days of which he has already played ten with five wins, three draws and two defeats and a 60% performance. The production is good. You already have one goal, you have two more.

They have had matches that Juniorismo has been happy with (3-0 against Fluminense, 3-1 against Oriente Petrolero and 4-0 against Envigado). Others have left a bittersweet taste (1-1 against Unión de Santa Fe and 1-1 against Unión Magdalena, which ended up being 3-0 on the desktop).

What has no presentation and which left a bitter taste of disappointment, was the game they just lost 1-0 with Cortuluá as a visitor.

A big team like Junior can’t put on such a depressing show. And it’s not that he lost, because it can finally happen, but to play so bad and disoriented. He scored a goal at minute 20 and then ran aimlessly, with no rhyme or reason, behind a ball that never belonged to him.

With all due respect to Cortuluá, Junior should have won without any problems. The alternative payroll that Cruz Real sent to the field is better than ten or twelve teams in the League, Cortuluá had just lost six consecutive games, he substituted Chilean coach Manuel Suarez for Fernando Velasco who had retired. His last team was Cúcuta in 2017. He had not worked for five years and agreed to lead Cortuluá provisionally in the last two games on the calendar.

Playing as a visitor is the job of Cruz Real and the team. It’s a two-way responsibility. Cruz Real pays his wages and it is the players who do the work on the pitch.

The question is why Junior changes so much when he plays as a visitor. Of the 14 matches, in the three tournaments in which he participates, he has lost eight. That the height, that the grass, that the referee, that the VAR, are the same excuses as always without being able to improve the outdoor performance. In the competition, they are 15th in the visitors’ table.

Junior has won stars on the same calendar playing in Bogotá, Tunja, Pasto or in cities a bit lower like Manizales, Pereira or Medellín.

And finally, if it’s a real problem, we can’t live our lives with the same evil without doing everything possible to solve it, since it’s possible that the last game, in a title definition, could be in a high-rise city.

Give him as many excuses as you want for losing out. But it really hurts to fall so hard against Cortuluá, a team with a very discreet campaign. Something unimaginable, no doubt…