Burgueño Miguel Sunday was the setting where Deportivo Maldonado received a visit from Fénix to kick off the 13th date of the Opening Tournament of the Uruguayan Championship The local team was the leader, but with no margin for error, since to stay in the lead of the tournament alone they had to add three units.
Deportivo Maldonado came out to impose conditions and get on top of the rival and achieved it in the first moments of change. The first goal occurred just four minutes into the game, Arias got into the “albivioleta” area and took a good shot that would go just wide of a rival. The Fernandino team warned.
After 12 minutes, the locals would approach again with a hospitalization by Cantera, who, inside the area, took a left-footed shot that went far from Requena’s goal.
strong start
As the minutes passed, Fénix settled into the field and the momentum of the Fernandino team dropped. In fact, in the first quarter of an hour Schettino took out a powerful mid-distance shot which Reyes could not contain in the best way, so he left a rebound for Casas. The Fénix attacker faced the goalkeeper and tried to define above him, but the ball ended up above the roof of the goal.
Four minutes later, Fénix would have it again in the head of its captain. From a free kick from the left side of the area they lifted the ball and, before Reyes’ faulty exit, Schettino defined, but the shot went wide.
Maldonado would have a clear chance at minute 25. From a corner kick to the right, Enzo Borges appeared with a header to divert the trajectory of the ball, which, after being touched by Requena’s hand, crashed into the inside of the post. , but it did not enter and neither could Maximiliano Cantera push it.
Great goal to open the game
Football is not about merit and Fénix would enforce that maxim around the 35th minute, when he opened the scoring. Diego Casas took a ball in motion and took a real bomb placed that collided with the crossbar and went to the bottom of the net. It was the opening of the scoring and the celebration for the visit, which ruined the intentions of “Depor”.
After Fénix’s goal, Maldonado had a hard time getting back into the game. The visitors did not dominate the match, but they disconnected the rival’s attack and were in no trouble.
However, towards the end of the first part I can match the leader. In a mixed play, the ball remained in the air at an ideal height for Borges to head it powerfully, but off target. The ball grazed the pass and went by the bottom line, to the dismay of the green-red team.
With folly for the local and a prize perhaps too high for the visit, the first half ended.
Second frustrating time at the top
With the bow between their eyebrows, this is how Deportivo Maldonado came out for the second part of a match where it seemed that not only three points were going away, but also the comfort in the championship.
However, Fénix did not leave the rival’s job easy, he remained very firm on the field and did not give space for the Fernandinos to penetrate. Although the ball was red-green, the tranquility was albiviolet.
The minutes passed and Deportivo Maldonado did not show anything other than drive. The players’ intentions to attack were clear, but the paths to the goal did not appear and time and time again they collided with the same wall.
As the minutes passed, the only thing that became clearer was Maldonado’s impotence in the face of his inability to generate real danger. Neither with the ball in motion, nor with the ball stopped. Requena became more and more
At the end of the game, the locals turned everything upside down, while Pallas’s men clung to their advantage. “Depor” left spaces in the defense and Fénix exploited them and thus was about to extend the advantage at minute 90+1′ when Gonzalo Vega got into the area and took a powerful shot with his right leg that crashed into the goal. stick.
There was no time for more. Deportivo Maldonado did not find the way and had practically no clear chances after conceding a goal. With the defeat, Palladino’s team is left with 25 points, so Liverpool, which has 22, could overtake them if they prevail with a victory.
Nacional and Peñarol also rub their hands, as they could match the “verdirrojo” with two games to go.
