April 19, 2023, 23:57 PM
April 19, 2023, 23:57 PM
The Ecuadorian Barcelona prevailed 2-1 (partial 1-0) over the Bolivian Bolívar on Wednesday in Guayaquil, for the second date of Group C of the Copa Libertadores in 2023, with which he redeemed himself from the initial slip.
The Canarian club, which missed two penalties, He won the 3 points to now appear above, with the same score, along with the La Paz Academy and the Paraguayan Cerro Porteño, while the Brazilian Palmeiras is last without units.
The popular yellow squad began to win with a goal from Fernando Gaibor (38 minutes) and confirmed the victory when Argentine Jonathan Bauman scored (75). The Chilean Rooney Fernández (70) converted for the sky blue.
The day of the key will culminate this Thursday in Sao Paulo, with the clash between Palmeiras and Cerro Porteño.
On the third date, on May 3, the Asunceño Cyclone will host Bolívar and Barcelona will host Verdão from São Paulo.
The first two of the series will qualify for the round of 16 of the Libertadores, while the third will go to the South American 2023.
The midfielder Gaibor opened the yellow victory route after a lukewarm clearance from the Academy. He was alert to give the finishing touch with the right boot and from outside the large area to a service from Damián Díaz.
At 44, the Argentine Francisco Fydriszewski missed a penalty that could extend the triumph of Barcelona, runner-up in the Libertadores in 1990 and 1998 and the first team from Ecuador to play an international final.
After the lack of Bolivian Jesús Sagredo On the Ecuadorian Janner Corozo, Fydriszewski placed a right-footed shot directed at goalkeeper Carlos Lampe’s left vertical, who managed to bump the ball to clear the danger.
At 68 minutes, the bullfighter Gabriel Cortez, who at 62 replaced Corozo, missed another maximum penalty. With his right hand he commanded outward and to the right of the celestial arc. The penalty was created again by Sagredo, who attacked Adonis Preciado.
– Goals from side and side –
A lack of coordination of the Barcelona defense left the way open for Fernández to register the partial draw 1-1 at 70, by activating a shot when he found a delivery from Diego Bejarano.
Stressed by missing two penalties, the bullfighters desperately reached victory. Bauman, who replaced Christian Ortiz at 63nested twelve minutes later by exploiting a quick advance down the left wing to the last line, from which he received a goal pass to lift the ball and deposit it in a cross direction.
Like all a home owner, the bullfighter cast put order and took control of the game to take constant shots on goal, creating restlessness in Lampe, who saw the opposing attackers hovering on his ground.
The locals squeezed the academics, Not being able to break the defensive line, they had to try with a few medium-distance shots that went wide.
The striker Fernández, from the sky blue club, He struggled to stand out, but in the initial phase he barely managed a shot from the edge of the small area that he sent into the clouds.
By then, midfielder Bejarano, author of the second goal in Bolívar’s 3-1 victory over Palmeiras at the start of the series, He was the only one to place a direct shot at the ‘torera’ cabin.
Barcelona and Bolívar, whose greatest international merit is second place in the 2004 Copa Sudamericana, encouraged an interesting match played at the Monumental stadium, led by the Peruvian judge Kevin Ortega.
But the academics suffered a different fate than two weeks agowhen in La Paz they beat an alternate team from Palmeiras to gain strength.
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