Olimpia was a storm and won 3-1 on October 12 to remain firm in the fight for the title. The Itaugueño Globe hangs on a true miracle and could descend on the same day.
Franjeados and Itaugueños met today in a Manuel Ferreira stadium filled to the brim for date 20 of the Clausura 2022 tournament.
Olimpia shot out of the locker room and cornered October 12 from the start.
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The heavy rain that began to fall on the capital did nothing but worsen the situation on the 12th. Olimpia was favored and exploited the speed of his own with deep passes for his captain, Derlis González, who put the entire Ñandutí defense to work.
The meeting leveled off physically just over 20′, but the situations remained in favor of the homeowner. Product of this paradigm, Guillermo Paiva managed to open the scoring with a strong cross shot (28′) which left the goalkeeper in the dust.
? Thus, Guillermo Paiva scored the first goal of the match.
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It looked like Olympias would detonate all her artillery at once, but on the 12th, in a play from another game, he evened the score at 33′ with a header from the burly Marco Antonio González.
⚽️ Marco González put the temporary parity for the visit.
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Julio Cáceres’s squad absorbed the blow, regrouped and once again imposed their game. Thus, in a play that seemed controlled, the defender César Benítez committed an unobjectionable penalty against Hugo Fernández that Derlis González (39′) converted into a goal (2-1).
⚽️ Derlis González from the twelve steps put the fringe up.
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The striped did not take his foot off the accelerator and Saúl Salcedo, in the first stages of the complementary, put the reassuring 3-1 (48′).
⚽️ Saúl Salcedo’s header to extend the Dean’s advantage.
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October 12 showed signs of self-esteem and generated some other situation, to at least disturb the goalkeeper Gastón Olveira.
About 89 ‘the VAR canceled a goal to Brian Montenegro for a foul on the previous play.
Olimpia achieved its eighth consecutive victory and provisionally leads the tournament with 45 points, waiting to see what happens with Nacional (44) and Cerro Porteño (41), who will face Tacuary and Libertad, respectively, tomorrow.
And he didn’t get it for free. Ivan towers was cautioned (42′) and, due to accumulation of cards, miss the next game of the Dean (before Sol de América).
On his side, the 12 is practically hours away from signing his return to the Intermediate Division. It depends on General Caballero JLM (his next rival) not adding a single point in his last 3 sets.
