The initial incidence of the game in the Nueva Olla had arbitration as the protagonist: in the first quarter of an hour, the referee derlis lopez communicated that the VAR was out of operation.
A few moments later (16′), jordan santacruz committed an infraction that for the main judge deserved a direct red. In the reiteration of the TV it was appreciated that the fault, at most, was for a yellow card. However, the decision could not be modified due to the ‘out of service’ in which it was from video arbitration at that moment. Thus, the Academy was left with 10 men very early.
From there, the Cyclone accentuated its superiority and after 29 minutes opened the scoring thanks to an accurate shot from Angel Cardozo Lucenawho beat Héctor Espínola’s stretch.
⚽️ Lucena’s shot put the azulgrana up!
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Just before the break, already in the addition of the first half (45 + 1 ‘), Frederick Carrizo He established the 2-0 with great category, after an attack with successive touches in which the ball even hit the crossbar.
? Federico Carrizo put the second of the Barça team.
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those of Peter Sarabia They entered the complementary store with determination and quickly found the discount: Richard Cabrerawith a sensational shot from outside the area, made it 1-2 tricolor at 48′.
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A moment later, El Albo was even close to tying it but he did not achieve that goal due to the intervention of Jean Fernandes, who was not having much work but made himself noticed when required.
At 55′, Cerro put the match back on track in his favor thanks to claudio aquinowho signed the 3-1 for the squad of facundo sava.
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And to close accounts in Barrio Obrero, Damian Bobadilla He scored among the gunners by establishing the final 4-1 at 68 minutes.
With this, Cerro Porteño keep being him only unbeaten Opening and now add 17 pointsbeing located 2 from Libertad (which faces General Caballero on Thursday).
Nationalon the other hand, stumbled again and, with 11 unitsis still stuck in the bottom half of the championship.
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