the juvenile rwan came in in the second half and scored this Thursday the winning goal 0-1 Saints from Brazil during his visit to Catholic University of Ecuador, with which the ‘peixe’ remains in a closed bid with Unión La Calera for the passage to the round of 16 of the South American Cup. Rwan came on in the 61st minute to replace Ecuador’s Bryan Angulo, and in the 91st minute he scored the goal after a deadly counterattack.
The Chileans from La Calera have 8 points and Pelé’s team has 7, so both remained as the ones with the best option to define, two days from the end of the group stage, the Group C qualifier, since Universidad Católica He stayed with 4 points and the Argentine Banfield, with 3.
The approach of the coach of Santos, the Argentine Fabián Bustos, ended up giving victory to a team that is in the process of adapting to its coach’s new style of play.
The contenders managed to treat the ball well from the beginning of the match, touching it with precision and getting the movements right both to defend and to attack. There were few occasions in which they found the spaces to be able to finish off on goal and, in a special way, on the Ecuadorian goal.
The attackers of the local team, whose characteristic is to pressure the opposing defense in the face of Santos’ orderly defensive system, did not enjoy that freedom and neither did they have space to maneuver and score.
The first approach to the goal was generated by Católica with a header from Facundo Martínez, but the ball escaped next to the left post, in the 42nd minute.
Santos surprised in the first half with his game proposal, based on order and strength from his defense, precision in passes from midfield and good placement of his attackers, which neutralized the local intentions to impose their game.
Layan (Catholic) and Lucas Braga (Santos) dispute a ball
For the second half, the Argentine team Fabián Bustos established two lines from the middle towards his goal, which Católica tried to take advantage of, since he began to generate danger with shots from outside the area.
However, this proposal by Santos had the flexibility to come out playing, with a series of short and precise passes that drove the rival to despair but not the opposing goalkeeper, Darwin Cuero. The attention and concentration of the Brazilian defenders almost bordered on perfection to cross at the last moment to avoid the local’s final shot.
In the last 20 minutes of the match, Universidad Católica increased its attacks, aimed shots from all distances, but none hit the Brazilian John’s goal.
The territorial and soccer domain of the Ecuadorian team was of no use because Santos responded with three counterattacks, two of them failed, but the third was effective with the low and corner shot of the youth squad Rwan. On the fifth day of Group C, Santos-Unión La Calera and Banfield-Universidad Católica will face each other.
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