The Ayacucho prevailed the 2-0 win he achieved last week against Sports Boys to advance to the group stage of the South American Cupdespite falling this Wednesday 3-2 in the second leg of the series between Peruvian teams.
The decisive goals for the Foxes were scored in the second half of the game by the Uruguayan Cristian Techera and by Minzum Quina, while the Boys got excited in the first half with two goals from the Argentine striker Alexis Blanco and another from the creative Luis Ramírez when he mediated the second time.
From the beginning of the game played at the National Stadium in Lima, Boys sought to reverse the bad result of the first leg and after playing with clenched teeth they approached the feat thanks to Blanco’s annotations.
At 23 minutes, the Argentine striker executed a penalty with great solvency, after a foul that he himself suffered when he was shot down by defender Jesús Mendieta when he dangerously entered the area defended by goalkeeper Ítalo Espinoza.
Blanco added his second personal at 42, after a series of touches from his teammates that ended in a high cross that fought with a defender and ended up entering the goal after colliding with his body after a weak start by Espinoza.
When all the Boys fans were dreaming, the situation changed diametrically in the second half, since the Foxes came out revitalized and discounted, at 51, with a shot sent from the center of the area by the Uruguayan Cristian Techera.
Parity came at 63 minutes, with a shot from defender Minzum Quina, despite which the Boys did not give up the attack and at 73 took a new breath by winning the third, with a shot placed from the center of the area by the creative Luis Ramirez.
Beyond their attempts to achieve the feat, the popular team from the port of Callao ended up with a pyrrhic victory against a rival who knew how to impose their defensive capacity to assert the victory of the first game and advance to the next phase of the continental tournament.
DATA SHEET
3 – Sports Boys: Patrick Alvarez; Renzo Revoredo, Cristian Florez, Edy Rentería, Luis Garro (m.84, Diego Saffadi); Luciano Nieto (m.72, Claudio Torrejón), Jesús Barco (m.66, Junior Huerto), Luis Ramírez; Jostin Alarcón (m.72, Piero Vivanco), Jesús Chávez; alexis white
2 – Ayacucho: Italo Espinoza; Hugo Magallanes, Héctor Salazar, Minzún Quina; Edinson Chávez (m.77, Jorge Toledo), Eric Barrios, Juan Morales (m.87, Emanuel Paucar); Jesús Mendieta, Cristian Techera (m.77, José Parodi), Othoniel Arce (m.46, Francisco Duclós) and Nicolás Royón (m.90, Sebastián González).
Coach: Alejandro Apud
Goals: 1-0, Alexis Blanco, from a penalty (m. 23); 2-0, Alexis Blanco (m. 42); 2-1, Cristian Techera (m. 51); 2-2, Minzum Quina (d. 63); 3-2, Luis Ramirez (d. 73)
Referee: Bolivian Ivo Méndez expelled, at 61, Cristian Flores and, at 67, Francisco Duclós and admonished Garro, Barco, Arce and Barrios.
Incidents: second leg of the first phase of the South American Cup, played at the National Stadium in Lima
