The goalkeeper jailson He had a great performance this Tuesday by avoiding several goal chances in the game against Barcelona and covered a penalty, which allowed him to qualify, in a historical way, to America Mineirofrom Brazil, to the Group stage of the Libertadores Cup.
El Mineiro, who had given Barcelona a 0-0 draw in the first leg, achieved that same score in the regular 90 minutes of the return match played on Tuesday in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil.
Therefore, it was necessary to define the tie from the penalty spot and Jailson emerged as a hero by stopping a weak shot by defender Leonel Quiñónez, so the final result of the shootout from 11 meters favored América Mineiro 5-4.
Barcelona first visited Jailson’s goal with a violent free kick shot by Leonel Quiñónez, which the goalkeeper rejected with great effort, who had to be treated.
After the scare, América Mineiro organized himself more in defense and proposed the action of the match in the midfield, where he accumulated the largest number of players to disconnect the midfield with the Barcelona forward
The next purpose was to get closer to the local defensive zone, which could not find the formula to get rid of the visiting pressure. As a result of this action, the Brazilian team had spaces to bring danger over the Barcelona goal, defended by the Argentine Javier Burrai.
The frictions between players of both teams were also not lacking and many claimed the apparent passivity of the Argentine referee Patricio Loustau.
Jailson saved his team again, after a half-turn shot from the Argentine Emmanuel Martínez, who managed to reject a corner kick, in the 62nd minute. Zé Ricardo, who entered for Alé, aimed a violent shot that, with just enough, managed to reject goalkeeper Burrai for a corner, in the 85th minute.
