The rEal Valladolid won 0-2 to Colo Colo In the Sausalito stadium in Viña del Mar, in the first of two friendlies that both will play on the occasion of the Centennial celebration of the Chilean team. With goals from Brazilian striker Marcos André and midfielder Chuki, both in the second half, the Spanish team achieved its first victory under the command of Uruguayan coach Guillermo Almada, who arrived at the beginning of July.
The Pucelanos are in preseason, in the process of rearming to look for the return to the League after their descent this season to Second Division and had lost their first friendly against the champion Chipriot Pafos 2-3.
With a goalless draw, the first half ended, after Valladolid was better onset with a high pressure that proposed to take the prominence of the duel and that had a shot, in the first minutes, of Ibrahim Alani that kicked from outside the diverted area. Colo Colo took control of the ball with the passing of time, being able to mark the first with a powerful shot by Arturo Vidal from outside the area, which the goalkeeper Guilherme Fernandes rejected.
Jorge Delgado (Valladolid) and Jonathan Vilagra (Colo Colo), in a lance of the game
The Blanquivioleta painting showed weaknesses in defense that gave facilities to the albos to generate goal options in the first part. From there, it was the best minutes of the Chilean team that had two more occasions to go up on the scoreboard with a header from the Uruguayan attacker Solomón Rodríguez that passed near the left stick of Guilherme and a shot by Vicente Pizarro that was diverted.
The Pucela was losing thrust, but had the opportunity to score about the 20 minutes of the game in a free kick that goalkeeper Fernando de Paul rejected and then ended up clearing Tamás Nikitscher’s shot that took the rebound. The lack of depth and inaccuracies were presented for both, but the first half closed with two Valladolid options in a shot inside the Amath Ndiaye area and a post that crashed Stanko Juric.
The Valladolid went better in the second half and the first warning was given by Stipe Biuk, the Croatian stole a ball behind the wheel Felipe Méndez and put the arch of the albos with a left -footed shot from within the area. The score was finally opened by Brazilian striker Marco André, in the 51st minute, with a shot on the crescent of the right stick and with the empty arc after taking a rebound for a uncoordination between the debuting goalkeeper Eduardo Villanueva and Sebastián Vegas.
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The 0-2 arrived with a definition of Chuki, in the 71st minute, after a failure of the dawn that could not secure a ball in his field and the midfielder won in speed to define from the outside of the large area. The multiple changes subtracted rhythm to the game and Colo Colo lost cohesion to be able to discount on the score except for a last chance of Argentine striker Javier Correa who sent a balloon on the crossbar in the 89th minute.
Both clubs will face again as a farewell on Saturday 26, at the Monumental Stadium in Santiago, where the ‘chief’ is expected to play with more projection players because on Sunday he will play a duel for the Chilean League.
