Colombia premiered in the Women’s Nations League of South America with a 4-1 victory against a Peru combative, which Leicy Santos and Linda Caicedo cracked this Friday with their quality at the Atanasio Girardot stadium in Medellín. The women’s Tricolor won with the double from Santos and the scores from Daniela Montoya and Ivonne Chacón, who could have been more with the deployment of the Real Madrid attacker, reserved for the second half.
The coffee makers soon opened the scoring with the recklessness of Rosa Castro by knocking down Ilana Izquierdo in the area, who doubled well before the pass of Leicy Santos, who was responsible for taking the penalty to beat goalkeeper Maryory Sánchez in the 6th minute. Despite the 1-0, the hosts had a hard time creating clear situations in the first half due to the wall that the coach built in his debut on the bench Antonio ‘Tano’ Spinelli with a line of five in defense.
Daniela Montoya celebrates her goal against Peru
Between Izquierdo, Santos and Pavi they caused concern, but they failed to open the can in a match controlled by the Tricolor. Only until the end of the first half did Carolina Arias appear very dangerous, but she failed in the definition. The Bicolor, for its part, tried without success to create problems with a pair of free throws from Andrea Thorisson. The best came when she appealed to direct play to activate Raquel Bilcape, who launched a cross for Pierina Núñez, but was able to cut it off goalkeeper Katherine Tapia.
Although the stands were excited with the entry of Linda Caicedo, the locals received a blow in the 48th minute with the score from Núñez to tie the game on a counterattack executed perfectly by Bilcape, who finished and Tapia gave a rebound that the Spanish Levante forward took advantage of.
Leicy Santos disputes a ball with Luana Chamochumbi
The 1-1 forced those led by Ángelo Marsiglia to react with the help of Caicedo and thus tilted the field, but they had no luck in the finalization with Marcela Restrepo with the goal available. Then it was goalkeeper Sánchez who shone by saving a shot from Santos.
Since her entry, Ivonne Chacón brought danger, but Sánchez supported the Inca team, also in incursions by Santos, who was responsible for collecting the corner that allowed Daniela Montoya to score the second of the coffee makers with a header in the 74th. In the 80th, Caicedo discounted rivals and in the area she was knocked down by the goalkeeper Sánchez, but the third for the Colombians did not fall because Restrepo sent the ball above horizontal.
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Colombia turned completely to the attack at the end of the game with Caicedo doing his thing to connect with Restrepo and leaving Santos ready to score the third with subtlety at 89′ and round off a victory that Chacón praised with the fourth goal in stoppage time (90+6′) before Tuesday’s appointment with Ecuador in Quito.
