2-1: Colo Colo defeats Alianza de Lima

colo colo reached this Wednesday the leadership of Group F of Libertadores Cup with a hard 2-1 win Alliance of Five in a game he should have closed before, but he was about to lose due to his own mistakes and stressful physical decline in the second half.

Juan Martín Lucero in 27 minutes and Esteban Pavez in 56 proved victory for Cacique, with 6 points in two outings. The visitors scored in the 69th minute through Edgar Benítez.

The whites sometimes showed a colorful game on the lawn of Monumental Stadium that buttoned up the Peruvians in their area, who didn’t resist the pressure and deployed to attack.

The ball rotated with fluidity and depth around the Lima area and in one of those combinations Lucero’s goal came after a good combination on the left wing.

Gabriel Costa filtered diagonally towards the corner of the small area and there the Argentine just needed to extend the net.

Confident and pushed by the fans, Cacique showed some of his best minutes. Costa was able to extend the advantage in the 39th minute, but the goalkeeper avoided it with an intense stretch, and the post prevented Lucero’s second in the 43rd, hitting a great header.

Alianza de Lima left just one play of interest in the first 45 minutes, a volley by Oswaldo Valenzuela at the exit of a very small corner, which Bryan Cortés lost.

The second half started in the same vein as the first, with the whites keeping the pressure on and circling around the Peruvians ’area, in the first fifteen minutes where they left the fight to be sentenced.

In the 56th minute, Estaban Pavez finished with a goal from a superb play on the wing by Gabriel Suazo and just three minutes later the post again denied the goal to Lucero, who efficiently passed the ball from the wing.

After four Leonardo Gil connected a missile but Ángelo Campos neutralized the shot.

Since then, Cacique’s superiority has begun to deflate and Alianza de Lima has taken the opportunity to break the pressure and look with worse intentions, and closer, to the goal defended by the Chile international goalkeeper.

Pablo Lavandeira’s entry contributed to this, and in the 69th minute, after just five minutes on the field, he filtered a pass to Edgar Benítez, who was defined with quality after the goalkeeper was eliminated.

From then until the end, the game opened up, with the locals nervous, unable to maintain the position of the ball, and the Peruvians were in a hurry, too anxious, and without enough clarity, to reach three quarters of the pitch.

Colo Colo above, and Alianza below, awaited the fate of the River Plate and Fortaleza in Buenos Aires. The Argentines arrived on the second day with 3 integers and the Brazilians, with empty hands.