The Colombian Deportivo Independiente Medellin (DIM) ranked to the group stage of the Copa Libertadores-2023 this Wednesday by beating the visiting Chilean Magallanes 2-0, who had tied in the first leg (1-1) and will go to the South American.
The Argentinian Luciano Pons raised the stands of the Atanasio Girardot Stadium in Medellín (northwest) with a doublet. A brilliant definition from the attacker opened the path at minute 15 of play and another right hand completed the task at minute 39.
The Chilean attacker Felipe Flores left Magallanes with one less player at minute 67, when he saw his second yellow of the night for trying to score with his hand.
In the final line Jhon Palacios from Medellín also saw his second yellow and left the field.
The Powerful of the Mountain and Magellan They will meet their respective rivals in the Libertadores and Sudamericana groups in the draw that will take place on March 27 at the Conmebol headquarters, in Luque, a neighbor of Asunción.
– Argentine country –
The paisa team came out to attack the visitors. Just after five minutes of play, an extreme race Emerson Batalla forced the central defender Fernando Piñero to launch a reckless sweep. The Argentine was conditioned by a yellow card for the rest of the game.
Erratic, Magallanes began to give away balls in his own field. In one of those, the attacker Luciano Pons unbalanced the series with a crossed definition to the angle that surpassed the Uruguayan goalkeeper Gastón Rodríguez.
Pons seemed to sign a premature brace at minute 23, but the linesman warned that he was ahead when Ever Valencia’s low cross came from the left.
The Argentine was able to celebrate the second missing a little for the break, in a similar but totally legal play.
– With ten –
for the second part the Chilean DT Nicolás Núñez tried to rebuild a team which was much lower than the DIM in the first part.
His directed recovered the ball and they even tested the rival goalkeeper, Andrés Mosqueraon a couple of occasions.
But the reply was timid and it was cut with the expulsion of Felipe Flores at minute 66. The Chilean tried to score a goal with his hand and saw his second yellow card of the night.
The DT of the Powerful, David González, took advantage of the diminished rival to rest the starting attackers Pons, Batalla and Valencia. But at minute 85, the admitted Jhon Palacios received his second yellow card for a foul on Yorman Zapata.
For the fans of the Paisa team, the classification to the Libertadores groups has a special flavor. His backyard rival and two-time Cup champion in 1989 and 2016, Atlético Nacional, will also be in the tournament.
