“The biggest in the country celebrated the draw as if he had won a title”: Humberto Acevedo

Deportivo Cali accumulated his second draw of the 2022 season in the Dimayor BetPlay League on Monday night, March 21 after letting out a partial 3-0 in his favor and ending up drawing 3-3 against Atlético Nacional at home.

Once the match between greens ended in Palmira, goalkeeper Humberto Acevedo spoke at a press conference and, despite his notorious annoyance at the score, he emphasized the good performance of his team mainly in the first stage.

This was the overall balance of the goalkeeper who was a substitute for Guillermo de Amores, goalkeeper called up with the Uruguayan national team for the qualifiers heading to Qatar 2022:

When the 24-year-old goalkeeper was asked about his feelings after receiving three goals, Acevedo clarified that his team did not do things so badly considering that the controversial scoring after Dorlan Pabón's penalty play led to a title celebration for Atlético Nacional, which faced the penultimate club in the campaign:

Acevedo's comment soon generated criticism on social media. One of the main netizens who rejected the words of the Vallecaucano goalkeeper was the sports journalist for the newspaper El Tiempo, José Orlando Ascencio, who stressed that the team did not have the weapons to beat a Cali America with 9 players and an Atlético Nacional with a large result:

Finally, Acevedo took on the mistakes of an unarmed champion squad that started the penultimate 2022 opening championship with 8 points and with a balance of eight goals converted against 16 conceded:

Regarding the development of the match and the sensations after the end, the Venezuelan coach and former goalkeeper Rafael Dudamel confessed at a press conference that there is no excuse for not having sustained the result after dominating Nacional in the first half of the engagement:

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