In Ibagué, where Deportes Tolima and América de Cali shared a 1-1 draw, Sergio Aguayo briefly produced the kind of finish that can travel far beyond a league fixture. The Mexican forward had already put Tolima ahead from the penalty spot when, shortly before half-time, he turned a loose ball into an overhead kick that found the net under close defensive pressure.
The celebration did not last. The assistant referee had raised his flag, with the ball judged to have gone out of play during the move, and the referee confirmed that Aguayo’s spectacular second effort would not count. The score remained level and stayed that way through the final whistle.
A moment lost on the touchline
The move began down Tolima’s right flank, where Edwar López reached the byline and sent the ball back into the area. Its path was extended and, after arriving in Aguayo’s vicinity, gave him the chance to attempt an acrobatic finish rather than take a conventional touch.
He met it cleanly with a bicycle kick, directing the ball beyond the goalkeeper despite a defender’s close attention. Yet the officials’ view was that the ball had crossed the boundary earlier in the sequence. Aguayo therefore left the match with his converted penalty as his only goal, rather than a brace containing one of the weekend’s more striking finishes.
An echo from Mexico City
The disallowed effort invited comparison with Miguel Borja’s own overhead-kick goal for América in Mexico, scored hours earlier in the Clásico Nacional against Chivas at the Estadio Azteca.
América had gone into the interval 2-0 down in the ninth round of the Apertura 2026. Brian Rodríguez supplied a deep cross which Borja recovered and converted in mid-air, giving his side a route back into the contest. Three minutes later, the Colombian scored again to complete his double and bring América level.
For Borja, the bicycle kick stood as the opening act of a comeback. For Aguayo in Colombia, an equally ambitious finish was left to memory rather than the scoresheet, a reminder that the final inches near a touchline can decide whether a goal becomes part of the record.
