In the first round of the tournament, Cobresal he barely got a pointwhich is why he arrived at the meeting before São Paulo with the urgent need to add so as not to say goodbye early to the Conmebol Libertadores and continue dreaming, at least, of playing in the Copa Sudamericana. The match could be seen on Star+ (Only for South America).
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Despite the clear dominance that the Brazilian team exerted at the start of the match, The legionnaires stood well in their zone and bet on the counterattack. which would give them the opening of the account in the 22′, With a quick action where Franco García sent a cross, Cristopher Mesías pivoted and found Diego Coelho, who knocked the goal off Rafael (23′).
However, The joy would not be eternal for Gustavo Huerta’s pupils. The thing is that the São Paulo players advanced their lines and in the 38th minute, Michel Araújo took a low cross to Lucianowho broke away from his marker and with a powerful left foot, tied the numbers in Calama.
Towards the end of the first half, the visitors had clear chances of taking the lead at half-time, but Leandro Requena showed off his reflexes to save his team from the shots of Jonathan Calleri (40′) and Luciano (43′)who failed an incredible counterattack when he went alone in demand of the goal.
The initial passages of the complement were quite difficult, although with a slight prominence of the northerners. In any case, it was Luis Zubeldía’s pupils who would break the parity in the 60′, thanks to a strong shot by Rodrigo Nestor from outside the area , leaving Requena without options.
Although the Atacameños did not lower their arms and within their possibilities they sought the goal of equality, but it was not enough to penetrate the rear of a tricolor team that would put the tombstone to the commitment in the 78′, When Calleri tried a lob that hit the crossbar, he himself captured the rebound and scored the final 3-1 with a header.
In this way, Sao Paulo remained second, just one point behind Talleres and together they secured their qualification for the round of 16. Cobresal, on the other hand, remains bottom with one unit and next Tuesday will look for a victory during its visit to the “T” to put pressure on Barcelonathird with two positives, and get closer to the only thing left to fight: the Copa Sudamericana playoffs. ATON Chile