He palmeiras came back from an adverse marker and beat Wednesday 4-2 against Barcelona in a match in which they sealed their pass to the round of 16 in Group C of the Libertadores Cup and in which endrick he scored his first goal in the tournament. The Paraguayan defender Gustavo Gómez, the Uruguayan winger Joaquín Piquerez, the forward Artur and the youthful Endrick, 16 years old and who has already been negotiated with the real Madridthey scored for the paulista team.
Argentine striker Francisco Fydriszewski scored both for the Ecuadorian team. In the other match for the fifth date of the group, the Bolivian Bolívar defeated the Paraguayan Cerro Porteño 2-0 in La Paz on Tuesday and also secured the classification with twelve points and is in the lead by goal difference. Barcelona and Cerro Porteño, already eliminated, stagnated with three points.
At 18 minutes, the VAR disallowed a goal against Palmeiras due to Rony’s advanced position and four minutes later Barcelona winger Mario Pineida, a former Fluminense player, had to leave the field due to injury.
After two goal arrivals by Piquerez, at 25 and 28 minutes, Barcelona reacted and after an error by Ze Rafael, striker Janner Corozo took the opportunity to leave Fydriszewski free against Weverton and score the first at 32 minutes. Palmeiras immediately sought an equalizer and two minutes later Raphael Veiga smashed a shot into the crossbar of the goal defended by Víctor Mendoza.
But Barcelona wanted more and still clinging to their mathematical chance of qualifying with a forced victory, they increased the lead after 37 minutes. After an error by Mayke, who left the ball to Argentine Christian Ortiz, he joined Corozo, and Fydriszewski scored again. Before the break, Ortiz had a chance to score the third, but Weverton defended the home owners.
For the second half, the Palmeiras coach, the Portuguese Abel Braga, moved his chips and with the entry of Argentine José ‘el Flaco’ López gained more power in attack. The discount came in the first minute of the second half when a cross by Raphael Veiga was capitalized with a header by Gómez.
The early goal did not discourage Barcelona and the experienced Argentine Damián Díaz crashed another shot off the crossbar, but Palmeiras did the same with Artur after a previous play by López. All this in the first five minutes of the second half. When the actions were matched and the teams played face to face, Palmeiras tied in the 57th minute with Piquerez, after a combination of Dudu and Rony.
Encouraged by the 2-2 partial, Palmeiras began to prevail and López, Gómez and Raphael Veiga repeatedly demanded Mendoza, until at minute 69, in a play by Piquerez and Rony, Artur took advantage of the rebound to make it 3-2. .
A goal scored in just two minutes of play
In the final minutes, Endrick entered the field, the young promise of Brazilian soccer who did not disappoint, and with his first goal in the Copa Libertadores he ruled the elimination of the team led by Segundo Castillo.
With barely two minutes on the field, the striker scored the final 4-2 after a free kick from Raphael Veiga, followed by a shot off López’s crossbar and the ball on the rebound was left to Endrick to score in the 85th minute.
The match between Brazilians and Ecuadorians was played at the Allianz Parque stadium in Sao Paulo. On the last day, June 29, to define the first place in the group, Palmeiras will receive Bolívar and Barcelona will face Cerro Porteño in Guayaquil.
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