The victory at their home, the Raimundo Sampaio stadium in the city of Belo Horizonte, left América, led by coach Vagner Mancini, in third place in the standings, with 7 points, and still with hopes of registering in the playoffs. for which they will need to thrash Peñarol and expect a defeat by Millonarios.
The goals of the Brazilians Aloisio and Breno also put an end to a sequence of eleven games without defeat for Millonarios, including six victories, the last of which on Saturday against América de Cali, which allowed them to isolate themselves as the leader of the Group. B of the Colombian League.
The locals began pressing from the opening whistle and with less than a minute left, goalkeeper Álvaro Montero had to do his best to defend a strong shot from Breno from outside the area. A minute later Wellington Paulista was free to kick but shot the ball over the crossbar.
With less than five minutes left, América had counted four dangerous plays and after six minutes a goal by Aloisio was disallowed for being offside.
But after the tenth minute, under the leadership of Daniel Cataño, the Bogotá team began to leave with more calm and get closer and closer to the Brazilian goal.
The goalkeeper Mateus Pasinato began to be demanded and had to intervene before plays by Cataño himself, as well as Perlaza and a header from Vargas.
In the last fifteen minutes of the first half, however, América once again dominated the game with offensive plays by Wellingon Paulista and Everaldo.
The pressure paid off in the 40th minute when, after a long exchange of passes, Everaldo left Aloisio free to kick inside the area and the striker opened the scoring for América.
Faced with the need to win to continue as leader of the group, the Millonarios coach, Alberto Gamero, reinforced his team’s attack for the second half with the entries of forwards Beckham Castro and Edgar Guerra.
The changes put the Colombian team back in control of the game and allowed Cortes to be close to drawing on several occasions.
But in the 79th minute, when Millonarios was closest to equalizing, Breno increased América’s lead to 2-0 after heading home a corner kick from Everaldo inside the area.
Despite the fact that Millonarios tried to react until the end of the game, América knew how to manage the advantage and add the three points that keep them with remote hopes.