2024-09-18 12:23:22
River tied 1-1 This Tuesday with Colo Colo on his visit to the David Arellano Monumental Stadium, in the match they played for the ida of the quarter finals of the Libertadores Cup.
River had a more intense start, with a lot of mobility in attack and with Miguel Borja active to look for every ball approaching the Chilean area. Marcelo Gallardo’s team controlled the middle of the field and pressed in case their rivals came out.
But little by little he was losing ground in his own field with long balls, and Franco Armani had to work hard, especially with Carlos Palacios. Given the impossibility of playing in the middle of the field, he used the midfielder’s speed to reach River’s goal.
At around 33 minutes, Borja again pushed at the start and won to get close to the goal, but missed it by very little. This time it was River who was isolated from the danger zone, with a local team that monopolized the ball and played better collectively on the visiting team’s field.
Colo Colo could have reflected the dominance on the field on the scoreboard, close to 40 minutes, since Arturo Vidal gave a masterful ball to Javier Correa in the head, but Armani saved it at the last minute with a great save.
And at 43 minutes of the first half, River responded with a set piece with a great center back Marcos Acuna, on a free kick from the left that he captured Pezzella after easily breaking free and beating the goalkeeper Brayan Cortes. The referee waited for his colleagues at the VAR to finish reviewing the play, in which it was shown that the defender was properly enabled.
At the start of the plugin, Colo Colo maintained that superiority in the rival field, against a River that sought the counterattack rather than going for the second goal. In this way, the Chilean team reached the goal after a great pass from Vidal to Palacios, who scored before Armani came out to make it 1-1.
Faced with this draw by the Chilean club, River became nervous and suffered more attacks, but little by little the local team left adapting to the result, and the Argentine team was able to regain control of the ball that it had in the first minutes of the match, although without causing any harm.
The end was marred by the expulsions of Paulo Diaz and Maximiliano Falcon, due to mutual aggression in the Chilean area. Referee Claus added seven minutes, and at that moment Armani was very important in preventing his goal from falling.
The rematch between both teams will be played next Tuesday at the Monumental stadium in Núñez. If the tie persists, the series will be decided by penalty kicks.