Independiente Medellín goes into Sunday’s Medellín Alliance meeting with Alianza needing a reset and a result. The match is set for 6:10 p. m. at the Atanasio Girardot, and it comes after four straight defeats.
That run has left the team in an awkward place inside the group of eight qualifiers. Medellín has scored 23 goals and conceded 24, which makes it the only side in that group with a negative goal difference.
The goalkeeper decision sits at the center of the problem. Amaranto Perea must choose between Éder Chaux and Salvador Ichazo, and the numbers point clearly toward Chaux.
Chaux has played nine matches, kept two clean sheets and conceded 11 goals. Ichazo has appeared in seven, has no clean sheets and has allowed 13 goals. Even so, the team has kept rotating between them without settling on a fixed starter, a sign that the defensive search is still unresolved.
That matters because Medellín is not just trying to stop a losing streak; it is trying to protect its place among the eight teams that move on to the semifinal quadrangulars. The margin is thin enough that one clean decision in goal could matter as much as a clean sheet in the match itself.
Win Sports+ will carry the game, and the answer Perea gives in goal will tell the story before the first whistle even sounds. If Medellín is going to leave Sunday with more than pressure, it will have to do it behind the keeper he trusts most.
