The Paraguayan franchise showed off a brave, fighting and committed team, which never gave up in adversity and recovered at the end to obtain a well-deserved victory.
Everything that was expected from this match in terms of intensity in contact, fight for possession and defensive pressure was more than fulfilled, especially in the outcome.
In the first half, Olimpia Lions rocked the afternoon with a very dominant first half over Selknam. In an important part of the development of that first half, the Paraguayan franchise was the absolute dominator of the actions.
He won in the fixed formations -the scrum was an inexhaustible source of balls and his first try came from the line and the maul- he played in the part of the field he wanted -near the Chilean ingoal- and the only thing he could not do was score and take advantages that will be reflected in the scoreboard.
In the first half hour, the shares were Guarani.
Then yes, with the hierarchy of his opening Rodrigo Fernández -a perfect assist to Matías Garafulic for a great try- Selknam began to find a way around the development and thus, change the face of his team that I said, did not have a good time in the start.
In the snap, Selknam was forced to take control of the stock. After a penalty from Walter that further removed Olimpia in the score, the Chilean franchise had to burn the boats and in several passages of the second half, they got what they were looking for.
During almost the entire stage, little by little, he began to corner Olimpia in her field who, true to her style, defended solidly, without giving away a meter.
However, such was the offensive pressure that Seklnam generated two yellow cards in Olimpia, who played with 13 players until five before the final whistle.
Dittus’s try and Urroz’s penalty put Selknam ahead in the result by the minimum and what was said, with two more men, it seemed that the match ended with a Chilean victory… but no.
A penalty from Walter put the definitive result and the final defense of Olimpia in that culminating minute, the hallmark of a team that never gave up and that took a victory with great pride.
Synthesis
Selknam (20): 1. Javier Carrasco, 2. Tomás Dussaillant, 3. Vittorio Lastra; 4. Augusto Sarmiento, 5. Javier Eissmann; 6. Raimundo Martinez, 7. Thomas Orchard, 8. Alfonso Escobar; 9. Marcelo Torrealba, 10. Rodrigo Fernandez; 11. Matías Garafulic, 12. José Larenas, 13. Domingo Saavedra, 14. Nicolás Garafulic; 15. Francisco Urroz (c).
Entered: 16. Jorge Delgado, 17. Franco Pechia, 18. Matías Dittus, 19. Santiago Pedrero, 20. Santiago Edwards, 21. Lukas Carvallo, 22. Juan Zuccarino, 23. Luca Strabucchi.
Coach: Nicholas Bruzzone.
Tries: M. Garafulic, Dittus
Conv: Urroz (2)
Pen: Urroz (2)
Yellow:-
Olympia Lions (22): 1. Daniel Cabral, 2. Mariano Muntaner, 3. Enrique Quinteros; 4. Lorenzo Colidio, 5. Mariano Garcete Elli; 6. Federico Simondi, 7. Ignacio Gandini (c), 8. Mariano Romanini; 9. Ignacio Inchauspe, 10. Sebastian Urbieta; 11. Juan Gómez, 12. Estanislao Arrias, 13. Francisco Diez, 14. Julián Quetglas; 15. Diego Walter.
Entered: 16. Conrado Iglesias, 17. Ezequiel Reyes, 18. Estéfano Aranda, 19. Agustín Toth, 20. Álvaro Biscay, 21. Matías Sauze, 22. Ignacio González, 23. Nicolás Hogg.
Coach: Ricardo LeFort.
Tries: Muntaner, Garcete Elli
Convert:
Pen: Walter (4)
Yellow: Cabral, Quinteros, Simondi
Referee: Francisco Gonzalez (URU)
Time: 6:00 p.m. (local)
Stadium: Elias Figueroa (Valparaiso)
Source: SLAR.
