Colo Colo conquered this Thursday a crushing victory in the classic match against Universidad Católica in the Monumental Stadium and scored three important points fights to hunt down the leader, University of Chile.
The final date victory over Cobresal allowed the Cacique to close the gap with the leader Universidad de Chile, also knowing that the result He left them to rely on himself in the fight for the titlemore than enough reason to have Jorge Almirón the best men on the field.
For her, The Crusaders had just lost to Unión Españolaa duel in which they lost two starters by expulsion, such as Agustín Farías and Fernando Zuqui, forcing Tiago Nunes to modify his scheme, choosing a much more defensive disposition than usual.
The latter became evident, especially in the first half, where the popularity of throwing did not give the visiting defense any relief, generating good dangerous actions even before the minute of play through Javier Correa and 120 seconds later, Erick Wiemberg was trying to surprise with his low shot that hit the outside of the net.
The Cacique did not take his foot off the accelerator and in the 14′ he had a powerful shot from Carlos Palacios crashed into the left post of Sebastián Pérez, who would start rise as a figure at 21′ with a double block on Lucas Cepeda and Guillermo Paiva and after that, there was a weak effort (23′) in Correa, as well as a cross that almost reached Paiva (37′).
Although the home owner maintained his wide dominance in the game, the UC was more solid and applied in the brand, closing the spaces for the students of Almirón, who lived the game with passion and gave constant instructions to his team to try to go on back. to control the game.
Little by little the whites settled back into the opponent’s field and tried several times on the portico defended by “Carrot”, who had less work in the second half due to the good work of the -midfielders and the lack of efficiency of the players. opposites.
However, In one of the final acts of the game and amid local complaints about an alleged outstanding penalty, Cepeda served Correa with a superb cross from the cornerwho was waiting for his marker and with an accurate header at the near post, the Argentine got his revenge and sealed the victory for his team.
With this victory, Micul’s team reached 51 points and narrowed the difference with the U, when they have to play their pending duels against Huachipato and Unión La Calera. For now, Colo Colo will stay at the Monumental to face Audax Italiano this Sunday.
For the pre-mountain team stagnated in third place with 42 positive, no more mathematical chance to fight for the title and practically condemned to the dispute for Chile 3 of the Copa Libertadores. Universidad Católica will try to reverse their bad moment against O’Higgins, a match also scheduled for 3.00pm on Sunday.
Colo Colo
Cortes Bryan; Alan Saldivia, Maximiliano Falcón, Erick Wiemberg (Cristián Riquelme, 90’=; Mauricio Isla, Arturo Vidal (Gonzalo Castellani, 90+7′), Esteban Pavez, Lucas Cepeda; Carlos Palacios (Óscar Opazo, 90+7′); Guillermo Paiva (Marcos Bolados, 72′), Javier Correa (Emiliano Amor, 90′) (DT: Jorge Almirón)
Catholic University
Sebastian Perez Branco Ampuero (Juan Rossel, 90′), Daniel González, Gary Kagelmacher, Eugenio Mena (Alfonso Parot, 88′); Alfred Canales, Bryan González (Guillermo Soto, 76′); Gonzalo Tapia (Francisco Arancibia, 76′), César Pinares (Clemente Montes, 58′), Cristian Cuevas (Jader Gentil, 88′); Fernando Zampedri. (DT: Tiago Nunes)
Arbitrator: Jose Cabero
Situation: Monument, Macul