Atlético Nacional and Jaguares de Córdoba met in a delayed match for date 8 of the BetPlay League. An important match for both teams, which on the part of the local team was looking for its second consecutive victory. While the visitors needed to score points to move away from the relegation table.
The Atanasio Girardot stadium was the main stage for purslanes and felines. Prior to this match, Nacional had just won 1-0 against Deportivo Pasto in this same scenario. While Jaguares came into this match after losing 0-1 at home against Fortaleza CEIF in Montería.
The match began being favorable for those led by Pablo Repetto who came out to dominate the game against a Jaguares that remained solid defensively. The first action would be for Nacional, after Edier Ocampo would momentarily overtake the purslane team, however, the match judge annulled the opportunity.
The locals continued to create chances, although without much success, after the Atlético Nacional midfielder, Pablo Cepellini, had two options to overtake his team on the scoreboard in the first half. But both chances were wasted by the Uruguayan.
After rowing too much in the opposite field, Atlético Nacional had to wait until the second half to shout a goal at the Atanasio Girardot. At 65 minutes, the person in charge of opening things up on the scoreboard would be the winger, Álvaro Angulo, who after pressure from his teammate Emilio Aristizábal, would push the ball towards the feline goal.
Things would be better for those led by Pablo Repetto, who would score his second goal in the game in the 82nd minute. On this occasion, the person in charge of increasing the advantage for the purslanes was the young 18-year-old player, Óscar Perea, who received a pass from Pablo Cepellini and scored on the legs of the Jaguares goalkeeper, Geovanny Banguera.
Not everything was going to be perfect for the purslanes in the match against Jaguares, since the same player who scored the second goal, Óscar Perea, would be expelled from the match a few minutes after the end of the match, after the forward stomped on him hard. to a rival.
In this way, Nacional defeated Jaguares and achieved its second consecutive victory thanks to Pablo Repetto, who placed tenth in the standings with 16 points, two less than eighth, while the cats fell and remained eleventh with the same amount as the Antioquians.