Deportes Tolima began the year with a long-suffering victory against América de Cali

continued the first day of Colombian soccer. In one of the matches of the date, Sports Tolima defeated with suffering cali america 2-1 thanks to an agonizing score by Andrés Rentería, who had a penalty to comply with, but was enabled by the call to the Junior Hernández Selection.

The duel had its first big problem around 12 minutes, when one of the lights in the Ibaguereño stadium stopped working. They spent almost 20 minutes waiting for the electrical fault to be resolved.

Stocks continued to continually stop for breaches and slow restarts. There were no major dangerous actions.

In added time, which by the way took more than 20 minutes, the locals appeared with a shot from Estéfano Arango and then suffered an injury to Nicolás Giraldo, a reinforcement for this 2023 from América.

At 45+20, the scarlets scored after a shot off the post that Kevin Andrade took ahead. But from the VAR they annulled the action for being out of place at the start of the action.

Later, at 45+25, the newly admitted Carlos Esparragoza He sent a good deep ball that he controlled perfectly Brian Gil and defined left-handed.

The insignificance of the first contrasted with the emotions of the complement. América came out determined to look for an equalizer, while Tolima took advantage of the spaces left by its rival.

The first to hit was the Valle del Cauca team. Iago Falque, by far the best on his team, sent a long pass that Facundo Suárez headed down inside the area and Andrés Sarmiento, another newcomer, decreed equality.

From then on it was a permanent round trip, although the scarlets looked much better.

At the close of the meeting the main emotions arrived. At 87, Jeison Steven Lucumí sent a cross into the box from the left sector and Andrés Rentería, with a superb header, scored the second pijao goal. Madness in the Manuel Murillo Toro.

And in the last game of the match, Sarmiento was able to dress up as a hero after a good individual play inside the area, but at the time of finishing off he missed the ball and ended up wasting a great opportunity.

Great match between Tolima and América that ended in favor of the homeowners.