The Chilean team qualified this Sunday for the playoffs Australia and New Zealand World Cup 2023 after drawing 1-1 with Venezuela in regular time and beat her 4-2 on penalties in the duel for fifth place in the Women’s America Cup of Colombia.
In a very close game that was played at the Centenario stadium in the Colombian city of Armeniathose led by José Letelier won a victory that will take them to the playoffs scheduled for February 2023 in New Zealand.
In regular time, the lead Daniela Zamora opened the scoring with a goal from mid-range, while the Red wine equalized with an agonizing goal from Deyna Castellanoswhich took the game to penalties.
By Chili Francisca Lara, Karen Araya, Zamora and Carla Guerrero scored in the penalty shootout, while Rosario Balmaceda saved the penalty Nayluisa Caceres.
while for Venezuela Oriana Altuve and Ysaura Viso scored, but Castellanos and Lourdes Moreno missed, whose shot was saved Christiane Endler.
The meeting started very fought, but Chili he took control of the ball in the middle of the field under the leadership of Francisca Lara and Karen Araya. However, Letelier’s team had difficulty breaking through the Venezuelan defense, which had central defenders María Peraza and Verónica Herrera as its main guardians.
Despite the Chilean dominance, the first clear opportunity came for Vinotinto in a set piece play that Deyna Castellanos and striker Oriana Altuve headed in, but it didn’t go in because it crashed into the horizontal of Endler’s goal.
The southern team continued to handle the ball and the match was complicated for the Venezuelan coach, the Italian Pamela Conti, who had to substitute before the break for lateral Nairelis Gutiérrez and midfielder Raiderlin Vargas, who were injured in the game.
The first chance to Chili It arrived before the break in a counterattack in which the ball was left to Lara, who on the edge of the area took a shot that brushed the left post of the goal of Nayluisa Caceres.
La Vinotinto responded on the next play with a projection from the side Michelle Romerowho took out a right hand that saved the stellar Endler.
after the break, Venezuela matched the charges and the game remained in the pothole it had for much of the first half, because neither Caceres neither Endler They intervened a lot in the initial fraction of the second half.
The first arrival came only in 1959, when Castilians He fell on the wing and tried to send a center that opened until it crashed into the horizontal of a goalkeeper who was almost surprised on that play.
La Vinotinto looked better in this section, but the goal did Chili in a great play in which Camila Saez He lowered a ball on the edge of the area with his chest and Zamora, who came from behind, sent the ball into the back of the net with a right hand in the 64th minute.
The team of with you tried to discount, without much depth or success, and when everything seemed decided in favor of Chile, Castellanos appeared, who took advantage of a center of Paola Villamizar and sent the ball to the back of the net at 92 with the complicity of Endler.
However, in the penalty shootout, the Venezuelan team was left without the opportunity to play the long-awaited play-off that could have taken them to their first Women’s World Cup, while Chili he got a ticket to fight for the dream of going to his second World Cup.
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