students of La Plata qualified this Tuesday for the round of 16 of the Copa Sudamericana by thrashing 4-0 to Barcelona with a brace from Uruguayan Mauro Méndez Acosta and goals from Benjamín Rollheiser and Guido Carillo. The Argentine team will meet in the phase of the sixteen best with the Brazilian club Goiás, who advanced directly from the group stage.
What looked like a difficult challenge today, after those led by Eduardo Domínguez fell 2-1 in the first leg, turned into an exhibition by Pincha, who put the classification on track in the first half. The front mendez acosta he was in charge of opening the comeback after 6 minutes and then expanded when the clock marked 19. The midfielder rollheiser later stretched the lead at 38. Barcelona tried to react, but each offensive skirmish was stopped dead by the defensive wall of the rojiblanco team. The idols of the Shipyard tried, without much success, to maintain possession and find space on the wings of the pitch to go on the attack, but, far from being content with a close result, the Estudiantes men did not waste an opportunity so that each pass, cross or change of wing ended with a shot towards the rival goal.
Already in the second part, the scorer Cheek he broke Méndez’s mark and in two minutes rounded off the win.
Despite the fact that the chances of coming back were not in favor of the gold and red team, at no time did they allow themselves to slow down the game. The home team tried to get a fifth goal, but Barcelona began to close ranks and keep the ball on their side of the field, while using every minute to get into the opponent’s box. However, the Estudiantes barrier was insurmountable.
Corinthians win again
University of Sports fell this Tuesday in Lima for 1-2 in view of corinthians, which secured its passage to the round of 16 with two victories. The Brazilian team, which reached the play-offs from the Copa Libertadores, will face Argentine club Newell’s Old Boys in the next phase.
The second leg of the playoffs was scored today by a final fight that left five expelled. A packed Monumental Stadium in Lima, with nearly 80,000 fans excited by the events surrounding the tie, pushed the creams from the opening whistle to seek to turn around last week’s 1-0 defeat in Sao Paulo.
Corinthians, led by Vanderlei Luxemburgo, planted with a five-man defense that sought to make good the victory achieved in the first leg, but the grit of the people from Lima and the leadership of Andy Polo and Piero Quispe cornered the Brazilians and caused anxiety at the beginning of the first half. The pressure orchestrated by the Uruguayan coach Jorge Fossati made it difficult for the Brazilian to get the ball out, who patiently knew how to control the ball. From the first moment of the match, the Universitario players demonstrated with a lot of work and pride, despite their technical limitations, that they wanted the Copa Sudamericana more than their rival. The clash reached the break with the score 0-0.
In the second, again with an enlightened Quispe in charge of the Peruvian offensive game, the locals began to move through the visiting area. In the 55th minute Fossati moved the bench to introduce the Peruvian international attacker Edison Flores, applauded by the stands in his redebut in the Copa Sudamericana with the U, instead of the striker Urruti. In minute 67, the Brazilians threatened the local goal for the first time in the second half, and a minute later they went ahead on the scoreboard. Striker Róger Guedes headed a good cross from the left flank to the post and the Brazilian midfielder Maycon de Andrade He came from the second line to pick up the rebound, shoot the local goal and make it 0-1 on the scoreboard.
Seven minutes later, the U responded with an attack led by Andy Polo that resulted in a penalty. Flowers established the partial 1-1 that restored hope to the Peruvian team. Already in the extra time, the Brazilians sentenced the tie with a counterattack. Róger Guedes created the scoring chance again with a great drive that ended with a cross shot that the local goalkeeper deflected, but he could not prevent the attacker from Ryan Gustavo will push the rebound to the back of the net.
The goal celebration of the Brazilian, who took off his shirt after scoring 1-2, caused a confrontation between the players that forced the Police to jump onto the pitch. The celebration of the goal cost Ryan a double yellow. The first for taking off his shirt and the second for the gestures that led to the fight. In the same way, the referee sent off Di Benedetto and Calcaterra from Universitario and Matheus Araujo from Corinthians with a direct red card. In addition, he fired Piero Guzmán, a U player who was on the bench.
Botafogo meets
Botafogo tied 1-1 this wednesday with Athletic Board of Trustees of Argentina, in the debut of the Portuguese Bruno Lage as coach of the Brazilian team, and advanced to the round of 16, where they will face Paraguayan Guaraní. The Rio de Janeiro team complied with the procedure, after the 0-2 victory achieved on Argentine soil in the first leg, and continued their good moment: outstanding leader of the Brazilian Championship and in the round of 16 of the Conmebol silver tournament without wearing out excessively. Forward Luis Henrique scored for the locals in minute 3 and playmaker Damián Arce equalized in minute 67 to add some excitement to a match in which Paraguayan goalkeeper ‘Gatito’ Fernández appeared when he was playing at the Nilton Santos stadium.
Lage, who comes to replace his compatriot Luís Castro, now in charge of Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr, made his debut with a discreet draw on the bench of a team that plays by heart.
Under a downpour and in front of 20,509 spectators, the Rio team put an end to the Board’s comeback aspirations a few minutes after the initial whistle. Janderson invented a master move, stepped into the area, left Domingo with insulting ease and gave the goal to louis henrique. The game had just started and the advantage was already three goals in the tie overall.
From there, Lage’s pupils slowed down and let themselves go without having to regret damage, because Patronato took a step forward, raised the lines and dangerously approached the area of ’Gatito’ Fernández, today immense, but was unable to transform his momentum into goals.
Ghirardello headed point blank and the Paraguayan goalkeeper responded. The Botafogo goalkeeper was also brilliant when he thwarted several chances by Enzo Díaz, very willful, but denied with the goal, although he left a Chilean attempt that almost ended up inside. Fernández also appeared to frustrate González and Novero. Botafogo continued with this passive attitude, although every time he had spaces and Tchê Tchê faced, the red and black defense’s legs trembled.
In the second half, Lage’s men almost expanded through Jaderson, who hit the post with a dry shot, but it was Patronato who got the prize he deserved through Maple. The Argentine midfielder, who had come on from the reserve bench, crossed over a play started by the center-back Domingo, who had joined the attack by surprise.
He was still able to take the victory Patronato with a goal by Alexander Sosa that was annulled because his passer, Jorge Valdez Chamorro, was offside at the start of the game. In the end, a tie and a ticket to the round of 16 for a Botafogo that continues to be sweet.
Emelec meets with Defense and Justice
to the Ecuadorian Emelec it was enough for him this wednesday draw without goals in the second leg against the Peruvian Sporting Cristal to access the round of 16, where he will meet the Argentine Defensa y Justicia. The tie was added to the 0-1 victory that the Guayaquil team reached last week as a visitor in Lima, in the first leg.
After placing second in the group stage of the South American Cup, Emelec had to face the beer team that came third in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores. In this Wednesday’s game, Emelec came out with everything towards the Sporting Cristal area, which responded with deep passes, creating danger with a shot from Jesús Petrell that went to the side of Pedro Ortiz’s frame, while Gianfranco Chávez headed past the right post from close range. Emelec had a chance to open the scoring, but goalkeeper Renato Solis blocked Argentine Carlos Villa’s shot, who caught the rebound from close range, but his shot went over the crossbar. The end of the first half surprised the teams without being able to open the scoring, a result that was favorable to Emelec.
Since the restart, the Rimac team came out with the predisposition to attack more, but found an orderly defensive system from the Guayaquil team. As a result of these attacks, midfielder Hobberg wasted a scoring opportunity, as his header from close range escaped from the left side of Ortiz’s frame.
The approaching end of the match forced Cristal to intensify their attacks and their coach Tiago Nunes made the five changes, all with an offensive vocation and trying to overcome Emelec’s defense. Although it was not a great performance for the Guayaquil team, it was enough to sustain the tie, since the 0-1 victory in the first leg, in Lima, ended up qualifying them for the round of 16 of the tournament.
San Lorenzo wins again
San Lorenzo won this wednesday Independent Medellin (DIM) as in the first leg, but this time at home and for 2-0, to certify his passport to the round of 16, an instance in which he will face Sao Paulo. A double from Paraguayan Adam Bareiro, with two separate penalty goals (minutes 25 and 80) allowed the ‘Ciclón’ to round off a categorical 3-0 overall. San Lorenzo, who is on a good run in the local tournament where he is third, although far from the already champion River Plate, had the entire process of the match dominated and hit twice from eleven meters, one at each half.
The ‘Powerful of the Mountain’, meanwhile, after having finished third in Group B of the Copa Libertadores behind Inter Porto Alegre and the Uruguayan Nacional, is left without international competition for this year, in which they will have to bet on their local Clausura Tournament after an irregular Apertura.
The first half got off to an intense start with DIM trying to reverse the 0-1 deficit suffered in the first leg in Medellín, but the first to have their first goal option was the host with a shot from Iván Leguizamón that demanded a response from goalkeeper Andrés Felipe Mosquera. Then the Colombian team had two options: first with a mid-distance shot from Daniel Torres and then with a great wall from Luciano Pons and Miguel Monsalve that ended with a meritorious intervention by goalkeeper Augusto Batalla.
The difference in the score came in the 25th minute with a great personal play by bareiro that the defense of Jhon Palacios demanded, who ended up touching him behind so that the Brazilian referee Anderson Daronco decreed the maximum penalty that the Paraguayan himself converted into a goal.
In the second half, San Lorenzo managed the game time very well and finished it off in the 80th minute when bareiro caused another penalty and with another great execution sealed the victory and the classification of those led by Rubén Darío Insúa.
San Lorenzo was among the 16 best in this edition of the Copa Sudamericana, a tournament that he won in 2002 when the ‘Cyclone’ also had Insúa himself as coach.