A goal at minute 84 from the midfielder Andrew and another at 92 at the wheel pedrinho they gave him this Sunday the title of the South American Sub’20 of Colombiasince his annotations allowed his team to win 2-0 against Uruguay on the last day of the final hexagonal of the youth tournament.
At the El Campin stadium in Bogotawhich was attended by more than 32,000 people, Canarinha won its twelfth title in the tournament and closed a participation that had Andrey and Victor Roquewho both finished as the tournament’s top scorers with six goals.
Brazil finished the hexagonal with 13 points, followed by Uruguay with 12, Colombia with 10, Ecuador with 4, Venezuela with 2 and Paraguayan with one.
The fight for the title was precisely that: a fight in the middle of the field, where neither team managed to completely dominate, but La Celeste had the first two chances with a shot from Luciano Rodriguez and a center of alvaro rodriguez that cleared, in extremis, the auriverde defense.
The team of Ramon Menezes, for his part, tried to dominate under the leadership of Guilherme Biror, that he took a left-footed shot that went over the goal of randall rodriguez to 13.
However, those approaches were only an illusion, as the game fell into strong play and the teams were shallow. Both Celeste and Canarinha finished just a couple more times on goal in the first half.
For the complementary stage, Brazil He went out looking for the game and began to find in the area Victor Roqueto its scorer who had two opportunities to score but found a remarkable randall rodriguez who avoided the celebrations.
The clearest, however, was Guilherme with a shot that crashed into the post at minute 57.
In that context, Uruguay appealed to the counterattack to try to do damage and left in Luciano Rodriguez, his figure in the tournament, the responsibility of trying to score something that would give him the peace of mind of the title.
The push of Brazil It had its positive fruits when Kaiki, who entered the complementary stage, sent a long cross that reached Andrey at the far post, where with a header he sent the ball into the back of the net at 83 and made the entire delegation celebrate of the Canarinha.
In the end, the Uruguayans pushed, and even had a chance on a free kick that he took Luciano Rodriguez and passed near the right post of Mycaelbut it was not enough for them to tie.
In the Uruguayan despair, the Canarinha made it 2-0 when Rodrigo Chagas failed at the start and the ball reached Pedrinho, who took advantage of a bad start by goalkeeper Rodríguez and sent the ball into the back of the net.
After that, the referee whistled the end of the game, which ended with a brawl in which the center-back Douglas was sent off, who, if called up by Menezes, would miss the first game of the World Cup.
Besides the title, Brazil In this South American, he qualified for the Pan American Games in Chile 2023 and the U20 World Cup in Indonesia, which means his return to the world cups after missing the 2017 South Korean edition.
Data sheet:
2. Brazil: Kaique; André (m.81, Stenio), Douglas, Robert, Patryck (m.80, Kaiki Bruno); Andrey, Luis Guilherme (m.81, Ronald), Alexsander, Guilherme Biro (m.65, Pedrinho); Giovane (m.65, Renan) and Vitor Roque.
Selector: Ramón Menezes.
0. Uruguay:Randall Rodriguez; Mateo Ponte, Sebastián Boselli, Facundo González, Mathias de Ritis (m.87, Emiliano Rodríguez); Damián García (m.87, Nicolás Siri), Fabricio Díaz (m.76, Mateo Antoni), Luciano Rodríguez, Franco González (m.75, Ignacio Sosa); Renzo Sánchez and Álvaro Rodríguez (m.59, Rodrigo Chagas).
Selector: Marcelo Broli.
Goals: 1-0, m.83: Andrey. 2-0, m.92: Pedrinho.
Referee: Chilean Cristian Garay. He sent off Douglas and booked Boselli, Alexsander, Andrey, Robert, González and Pedrinho.
Incidents: Match of the last day of the final hexagonal of the South American Sub’20 played at the El Campín stadium, in Bogotá.
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