With an agonizing both in spare time, The Peruvian Sporting Cristal qualified this Thursday for the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2023 by beating Argentina’s Huracán 1-0 in Lima, asserting the goalless draw in the first leg in Buenos Aires.
Cristal’s winning goal, directed by the Brazilian Tiago Nunes, was scored by Irven Avila at 90+7 minutes of the match played at the National Stadium in Lima.
The Globo with the defeat will go to the group stage of the Copa Sudamericana.
– Under the VAR’s sights –
With the key open Cristal came out determined to seek the result that would allow him to enter the group stage of the tournament, supported by the thousands of fans who arrived at the National Stadium wearing light blue shirts.
At 3 minutes, the Brazilian referee Raphael Claus annulled a penalty at the request of VAR that he had charged for Sporting Cristal when the first minute of the match was barely played, due to an alleged foul by Guillermo Soto on Washington Corozo.
with the steering wheel Yoshimar Yotún and the Ecuadorian striker Washington Corozo, the celestial ones put their Argentine rival in their field.
With a good triangulation of passes forward Brenner Marlos scored in the 13thbut the referee annulled the goal after a foul by Yotún that the VAR visualized.
Cristal did not lower her arms and continued to attack Hurricane with good collective plays. El Globo, with forwards Nicolás Cordero and Uruguayan Matías Cóccaro, sought to create counterattacks to surprise goalkeeper Renato Solís.
At 24, Jostín Alarcón took a shot from the right that brushed the right post of Lucas Chaves’ goal.
After 30, the Globe grew in its game and with two headers from Gastón Sauro and Cordero after corner kicks he came close to scoring, but Solís saved his goal with great saves.
– With so much of Cholito –
In the plugin, Cristal with a totally offensive game led by Yotún began to put pressure on Huracán.
on your side, Hurricane sought to surprise with kickbacks made by Cóccaro and the Chilean Benítez.
At 60, Federico Fattori took a shot from the right that was stopped by Solís.
At 62, the Brazilian coach Nunes moved his bankae made three changes to Cristal to press harder and recover the midfield he had lost.
With the new players on the field, Cristal began to grow in her game at a time when the visit had closed well in its arc to seek penalties.
But at 90+7Ávila with a diagonal right-footed shot scored the goal that qualified the celestials. The goal made the thousands of fans of the Rimense team delirious, while the Globo allowed the only blink of an eye in defense that the Peruvian team brilliantly capitalized on.
