Match Report
13 points and 8 places separated them: Atlético Nacional 1st with 40, Deportivo Cali 9th with 27. On recent form Deportivo Cali sat only 24th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 9th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Atlético Nacional 1.84 scored and 0.79 conceded per game, Deportivo Cali 1.05 and 0.84, with the league averaging 1.26.
The sides have met 13 times in the GioScore results database: 4 wins for Atlético Nacional, 3 draws and 6 for Deportivo Cali, at 2.38 goals per meeting.
The referee was B. Santiago Pitalua, with 51 matches in our database and 2.4 yellows per game on average. Estadio Atanasio Girardot staged the fixture, a ground that holds 44,739. On the scoreboard, Atlético Nacional led 1-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 2-1.
Goal scorers
Atlético Nacional: Andrés Sarmiento (18'), Marlos Moreno (64') · Deportivo Cali: Nicolás Benedetti (74')
Key stats
Possession: Atlético Nacional 51% · Deportivo Cali 49% · Total shots: 15-8 · On target: 9-3 · Corners: 3-2