Colo Colo This Wednesday it achieved entry into the group stage of Libertadores Cup 2024 with a 2-1 home win early on against the Paraguayan Sportivo Trinidense in the second leg of the third round, played at the Monumental stadium in Santiago. With goals from Carlos Palacios and Leonardo Gil in the first half, the team led by Argentine Jorge Almirón won the series with an aggregate score of 3-2, after drawing 1-1 in the first leg in Asunción , while the Paraguayan team will play in the group stage of the Copa Sudamericana.
Colo Colo achieved peace of mind, at least on the scoreboard, very early in the game with Gil’s goal four minutes into the match, in a game where the midfielder received from Palacios on the left wing to define with a ball that entered under soft. the legs of goalkeeper Víctor Samudio.
The Paraguayan team struggled to leave their field in front of the siege of Albos, who controlled the ball and pressed the rival goal to try to score a second, but despite the effort, the goal took a while to come. .
A little over half an hour into the game, Cacique made it 2-0 with a counterattack where Cristian Zavala went up the right wing and served a cross for Palacios, who received a foul from goalkeeper Samudio inside the area. The forward himself took the penalty to increase the score. The goal was a relief, as Sportivo Trinidense pulled one back two minutes later with a goal from center back Gilberto Flores from a set piece, after a corner kick was taken by Wildo Alonso.
The visiting team woke up from their stupor, but Albos came closer to scoring a third through shots from Arturo Vidal, Esteban Pavez and Paraguayan striker Guillermo Paiva, who was one of the changes to the starting eleven.
In the first minutes of the second half, the Paraguayan team tried to level the score against a Colo Colo team that took a few minutes to regain intensity, but when it recovered, it went beyond the rival goal to find the third goal that will decide the game.duel. He got it with a shot from Zavala in the 56th minute after a cross from Gil, but it was annulled by VAR for offside. Then there were other options with shots from Vidal, Palacios and Marcos Bolados, but goalkeeper Samudio deflected or stopped.
The last ten minutes were a desperate back-and-forth, with the albos wanting to score a third goal, losing their balance and suffering heavily from the Guaraní team’s counterattacks.
DATA SHEET
2 – Colo Colo: Brian Cortes; Alan Saldivia, Emiliano Amor, Maximiliano Falcón, Erick Wiemberg, Esteban Pavez, Leonardo Gil (Vicente Pizarro, m.75), Arturo Vidal (César Fuentes, m.88 – Jeyson Rojas, m.96); Cristian Zavala (Marcos Bolados, m.76), Carlos Palacios and Guillermo Paiva (Damián Pizarro, m.96)
1 – Sportivo Trinidad: Victor Samudio; César Benítez, Gilberto Flores, David Villalba, Wildo Alonso (Sergio Mendoza, m.65); Pedro DelValle (Brian Andrada, m.60), Marcos Riveros, Juan Salcedo; Joel Román (Tomás Rayer, m.74), Fernando Romero (Oscar Giménez, m.74) and Julián Bonetto (Alan Pereira, m.59)
Referee: Brazilian Anderson Daronco advises Samudio and Giménez for the visit, Amor and Palacios for the locals
stadium: Monumental Stadium of Santiago.
Source: La Verdad
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