August 25, 2024, 9:45 PM
August 25, 2024, 9:45 PM
Oriente Petrolero lost the chance to rise to third place from the Clausura tournament standings, due to a tie (2-2) at home with Nacional Potosí, in a match of the 13th date of the Clausura tournament of the Professional Division. The match took place at the Tahuichi Aguilera stadium, on Sunday night.
The team referred to had a dream start, because Gilbert Alvarez, at 3 minutes, He beat Edisson Restrepo to the spot as he entered the penalty area and with a low, powerful shot he beat goalkeeper Saidt Mustafá to give his team the lead.
The Rancho Guitarra scared the green and white team with a goal from Saulo Guerra (15′), in a great individual play inside the area, which ended up being a goal that temporarily tied the game. Goalkeeper Alejandro Torres could do nothing.
The joy lasted only two minutes for the Potosí team, because in a quick action between Carlos Enrique Áñez and John García, he left the latter alone on the left, who sent a ball to the second post where Álvarez (17′) appeared again with his goal-scoring instinct to make it 2-1.
Those from Villa Imperial tried to reach equality again, But this time the eleven led by Joaquín Monasterio closed the spaces better and no longer gave the visiting attack any opportunities.
As the end of the first half approached, Oriente Petrolero had two opportunities to widen the gap. First with a cross shot from John Garcia (42′), which was cleared by goalkeeper Mustafa; and a minute later with a header from Daniel Rojas (43′), which Martín Prost cleared off the line.
When added time was already being played (45’+1) Sebastian Alvarez committed a foul on Prost inside the area, which the Chuquisaca referee Edson Canedo did not hesitate to award a penalty and the VAR ratified it.
Saulo Guerra (45’+6) took charge of taking the penalty and converted it into a goal with a shot to the right of goalkeeper Alejandro Torres. Once again, when the home team was playing better, the equaliser came for the team from Potosí.
Guerra’s celebration, which did not seem offensive at all as he beat his chest while looking at the Oriente bar, did not please the Albiverde players who went to heckle him and The match got heated there as several players nearly came to blows.
When the waters calmed down, the referee showed a yellow card to Jorge Flores, Áñez and Torres de Oriente, in addition to the goal scorer, Guerra.
Speaking of cards, in the second half, in a period of two minutesNacional Potosí defender Eduardo Álvarez saw two yellow cards and he had to be sent off at 52′. The second foul was a strong one against Jorge Enrique Flores.
Two minutes passed and Rojas made the ball hit the crossbar with a powerful header.
Once the scare in the visit passed, they responded shortly after with a counterattack started by Hugo Rojas, who after centralizing sent a short pass to Martín Prost (58′), who scored the goal, which was disallowed due to Rojas’s offside position.
The game was for anyone And so the minutes went by, until the 86th minute arrived, when Hugo Dorrego took a free kick that was headed for the net, near the top right corner of the goal defended by Nacional, but in a spectacular stretch, Mustafá sent the ball to the corner.
Oriente risked everything in the final minutesbut he was unable to score and the match ended in a draw. The Albiverdes have 20 points and moved up to fifth place, while Nacional climbed to seventh place with 19 points.
