Seven saves, one of them from twelve yards, and a 3-1 scoreline that could easily have been tighter if not for Diego Novoa. The Bucaramanga goalkeeper was the busiest man on the pitch in his side's win over Junior Barranquilla, and he picked the biggest moment of the afternoon to deliver his best work.
With Junior pushing for a way back into the match, Novoa guessed right and kept out a penalty, a save that stopped the visitors from turning a two-goal gap into something far more nervy for the home side. It was the kind of intervention that swings a result rather than just decorating a highlight reel.
A workload to match the occasion
The penalty save was only part of the story. Novoa finished the game with seven saves in total, numbers that point to a Junior side that kept testing him even as Bucaramanga built their lead at the other end. For a goalkeeper on the winning side to face that much work says plenty about how the match actually played out underneath the final score.
Novoa was rewarded with an 8.3 match rating, the clearest sign of how central he was to keeping Bucaramanga's advantage intact. Attackers get the headlines when a team wins 3-1, but this was a afternoon where the man between the posts did just as much to settle it.
For Junior Barranquilla, the penalty miss will sting more with time. Missed spot kicks have a way of becoming the moment a match turned, and against a goalkeeper in this kind of form, there was never going to be an easy way back.