In one of the last matches of matchday five, Equidad visited Alfonso López with the illusion of beating Atlético Bucaramanga and thereby climbing to the top of the table.
The duel began with a storm of the capital group. At nine minutes, Bucaramanga made a serious mistake at the start, Hansel Zapata ran down the right wing with total freedom and entering the area he released a powerful right hand that brushed the vertical right of Juan Camilo Chaverra.
Moments later, the Bogota midfielder Kevin Salazar tested the distance measure, but his shot went slightly off track. Those of Alexis García sought to go up on the scoreboard quickly.The Bumanguese people could not find clarity in generation and their game became slow, tiresome, without spark. So much so that his first approach came about half an hour into the game with shots from Andres Sarmiento and then from Michel Acosta.
In the final minutes, Acosta received on the edge of the area, before the brand he decided to assist Santiago Montoya who finished first and almost opened the scoring in the first clear option of the leopard box. Little else happened.
In the second half, Equidad was the one who tried the most, but goalkeeper Chaverra emerged as the great figure of the match with two monumental interventions.
At 54 ‘, Kevin Salazar took a corner kick,’ Pecoso ‘Correa trying to clear the ball, narrowly scoring his own goal with a header. Ten minutes later the local responded with Sarmiento, who held the ball in a great way on the edge of the area and released a flush shot that was saved with just enough Cristian Bonilla.
In the last ten the Chaverra show arrived. Stalin Motta, recently entered, raised a cross from the left, Zapata headed at the far post and the goalkeeper saved miraculously.
Later, again Motta’s center side, Jean Carlos Pestaña nodded as best he could and Chaverra, at point-blank range, was left with the insurance illusions. In the end everything would be in a draw, 0-0.