Three goals in the last 15 minutes of the match allowed this Friday the selection of Argentina beat 3-1 Paraguay and get your ranking World Cup in Australia and New Zealand 2023 in the match for third place in the Copa América Femenina in Colombia.
In a hard-fought game in which La Albirroja won until the 77th minute, La Albiceleste came from behind with a brace from Yamila Rodríguez, their best player in the tournament, and a free kick goal from Florencia Bon Segundo.
The Paraguayans, led by the Brazilian Marcello Frigério and who had taken the lead with an own goal by Romina Núñez, wasted the opportunity to qualify directly for their first World Cup and now they will have to play the playoffs in New Zealand in February 2023.
The players trained by Germán Portanova tried to do damage on the right with the work of Yamila Rodríguez and Soledad Jaime, who had a lot of trouble getting to the area. La Albirroja, meanwhile, defended well in that initial stretch of the match under the leadership of veteran Hilda Riveros and her partner in defense, María Martínez.
The first clear opportunity of the game came just in the 31st minute when Núñez took a long-distance shot that was saved with solvency by the Paraguayan goalkeeper Alicia Bobadilla, who once again ratified her good level in the tournament.
Those trained by Marcello Frigério reacted soon with a great collective move in which winger Linda Fretes sent a cross for Jessica Martínez, who took out a very strong shot that demanded Vanina Correa.
In this context, the Paraguayans found the goal in the 38th minute in a corner kick in which the Argentine goalkeeper went wrong, the ball was left to Fretes who finished off badly, but was fortunate that Núñez deflected the ball to the bottom of the his own goal to sentence the 0-1.
Julieta Cruz (Argentina) disputes a ball with Celsa Sandoval
For the second half, Argentina had the first opportunity to equalize with a free kick by Núñez in the 47th minute, with which he again demanded Bobadilla, who with a slap prevented the albiceleste celebration.
However, Portanova’s team lost intensity and had great difficulty in damaging Bobadilla’s goal, something that Paraguay began to take advantage of to counterattack with Fabiola Sandoval and Fany Gauto, who came on in the second half.
Precisely in one of those Jessica Martínez was about to increase the difference with a shot from medium distance that crashed into the crossbar in minute 58.
When the game looked thicker and the Paraguayans looked more comfortable, Argentina equalized in a counterattack in which Yamila Rodríguez, as she had done in other games, took a lethal shot that was impossible for Bobadilla to stop.
Portanova’s team continued to insist and made it 2-1 on a free kick, caused by a handball by Ramona Martínez, which Bon Segundo sent into the back of the net in the 89th minute to make the entire Argentine delegation celebrate.
The team confirmed its qualification for the World Cup a minute later when Yamila Rodríguez, in another lethal counterattack, celebrated a hard-fought victory with which Argentina guaranteed its participation in a World Cup for the fourth time.
DATA SHEET
3 – Argentina: Vanina Correa; Julieta Cruz (m.46, Marina Delgado), Miriam Mayorga, Sophia Braun, Eliana Stábile (m.64, Dalila Ippolito); Daiana Farfán, Romina Núñez, Florencia Bon Segundo, Estefanía Banini; Yamila Rodríguez and Soledad Jaimes (m.86, Erica Lonigro)
Coach: German Portanova
1 – Paraguay: Alicia Bobadila; Clean Fretes, María Martínez, Hilda Riveros (m.92, Lorena Alonso), Camila Arrieta (m.63, Daysy Bareiro); Fanny Godoy (m.50, Fany Gauto), Dulce Quintana, Ramona Martínez (m.92, Lourdes González), Fabiola Sandoval; Rebeca Fernández (m.63, Lice Chamorro) and Jessica Martínez
Coach: Marcello Frigerio
Goals: 0-1, Romina Núñez, own goal (m. 38); 1-1, Yamila Rodríguez (d. 77); 2-1, Florencia Bonsecond (m. 89); 3-1, Yamila Rodríguez (d. 90)
Referee: Colombian Maria Victoria Daza. She admonished Godoy, Bon Segundo, Stábile, Rodríguez and Martínez
Incidents: match for third place in the Copa América Femenina played at the Centenario stadium in the Colombian city of Armenia
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