Independiente del Valle from Ecuador qualified for the quarterfinals of the South American Cup by drawing 0-0 with Lanús this Thursday in Argentina, thanks to the victory they signed in the first leg, and left the 2022 edition of the continental tournament without Argentine teams.
The 2-1 that Del Valle signed in Quito in the first leg was enough to seal the key.
In Lanús, the visiting team played almost the entire second half with ten players due to the expulsion of Jonatan Bauman (48′).
The prize will be to play the quarterfinals against the Venezuelan Deportivo Táchira, who eliminated the Brazilian Santos.
More prolix and structured, the Ecuadorian team began playing better, dominating after a good job by Jhoanner Chávez in the middle and the deployment of Bauman and Jaime Ayoví to look for spaces in the attack.
But Lanús equalized the duel, a little with attitude, another with the obligation to win to move on, and thus approached with a cross from Varaldo that Acosta did not manage to push into the net, and a goal correctly disallowed by Maxi González. for offside.
The match began to change at the dawn of the second half, when referee Cristian Garay kicked out Jonatan Bauman for a stomp on Matías Pérez, and Independiente del Valle began to retreat due to numerical inferiority.
Despite their limitations, the locals generated situations, such as a left-footed shot by Aguirre who was looking for the right corner and found an excellent response from Ramírez, and a deflected shot by Aguirre himself, when the ball was served to him on the right side.
In the last minutes, Lanús accumulated attacking forwards and midfielders, but he was unable to generate even a risky situation, and Independiente del Valle ended up securing the ticket without major setbacks, ready to be the protagonist again in the tournament that saw him champion three years ago. years.
