colo colo reached this Wednesday the leadership of Group F of the Libertadores Cup with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Lima Alliance in a game that he should have closed before, but he was about to lose due to his own mistakes and a worrying physical decline in the second half.
Juan Martín Lucero at 27 minutes and Esteban Pavez at 56 certified the victory for Cacique, who has 6 points in two outings. The visitors scored in the 69th minute through Edgar Benítez.
The whites showed at times a colorful game on the lawn of the Monumental Stadium that buttoned the Peruvians in their area, unable to contain the pressure and deploy in attack.
The ball circulated with fluidity and depth around the Lima area and in one of those combinations came Lucero’s goal after a good combination on the left wing.
Gabriel Costa filtered diagonally towards the corner of the small area and there the Argentine only had to extend the net.
Confident and pushed by the fans, the Cacique displayed some of his best minutes. Costa was able to extend the advantage in the 39th minute, but the goalkeeper avoided it with a great stretch, and the post prevented Lucero’s second in the 43rd, who hit a great header.
Alianza de Lima only left one play of interest in the first 45 minutes, a volley by Oswaldo Valenzuela at the exit of a corner that went out very little, with Bryan Cortés defeated.
The second half began in the same vein as the first, with the whites keeping the pressure up and hovering around the Peruvians’ area, in the first fifteen minutes in which they were able to leave the match sentenced.
In the 56th minute, Estaban Pavez culminated in a goal from a wonderful play on the wing by Gabriel Suazo and just three minutes later the post again denied the goal to Lucero, who skilfully let a ball sent from the wing pass.
Four later it was Leonardo Gil who connected a missile but Ángelo Campos neutralized the shot.
From then on, the superiority of the Cacique began to deflate and Alianza de Lima took the opportunity to shake off the pressure and look with more perverse intentions, and more closely, at the goal defended by the Chilean international goalkeeper.
Pablo Lavandeira’s entry contributed to this, and in minute 69, after just five minutes on the field, he filtered a pass to Edgar Benítez, who defined with quality after getting rid of the goalkeeper.
From then until the end, the game unraveled, with the locals nervous, unable to maintain the position of the ball, and the Peruvians in a hurry, too anxious, and without enough lucidity, reaching three quarters of the pitch.
Colo Colo at the top, and Alianza at the bottom, awaited the fate of River Plate and Fortaleza in Buenos Aires. The Argentines arrived at the second day with 3 integers and the Brazilians, with empty hands.
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