A night of successive emotions was lived in Tuyucuá in a new edition of the classic black and white.
Libertad, champion of the Apertura, was seeking to recover from the surprise loss in the debut against Ameliano and the way for this was opened by Iván Piris, who scored his first goal in Paraguayan soccer to give Gumarelo 1-0 at 23 minutes.
At 28 ‘, intervention of the VAR through, Hugo Quintana saw the red card and left Olimpia with 10 players.
Barely two minutes later, Lorenzo Melgarejo made himself felt in the rival area and widened the homeowner’s partial difference to 2-0.
In the 39th minute, the sanction of a penalty would give Franjeado the chance to get into the discussion of the match. Alejandro Silva finished off, but Martín Silva blocked his shot: it was the first non-concrete execution in Paraguayan football by the Uruguayan. But from the rebound, Derlis González did send the ball to the nets and discounted (2-1).
In the second half, at 52 ‘, everything would be complicated for the visitors. The VAR interceded to change the sanction of a penalty for a free kick on the edge of the area, and the offender Luis Zárate would finally see the red card. Olimpia is left with 9 players with a long stretch of the match still ahead.
Roque Santa Cruz could not be absent in a game like this and, in the 71st minute, he headed in to seal the 3-1 repollero.
At 80′, meanwhile, Lorenzo Melgarejo signed his double and left Libertad’s lead at 4-1.
But there was more. In the first minute of addition (90 + 1 ‘), Hernesto Caballero defined for what would be the fifth goal of the Apertura champion, but the VAR intervened again to determine the sanction of another penalty for Olimpia by the hand of Iván Piris in the play previous. The side would see the second yellow card and, therefore, Gumarelo was left with 10 men.
Guillermo Paiva was in charge of executing the penalty and scored, leaving the final score at 4-2 in La Huerta.
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