What could not Boca did the Argentine Ramón Díaz. Is that the Riojan coach in command of the Corinthiansthanks to a double by Yuri Alberto, The last in the 89th minutehe avoided his own role before his people against the humble Central University of Venezuela. This was classified, with more suffering from the expected, to the third previous round of the Copa Libertadores, the last one before accessing the group stage.
With goals at the beginning and end of the match, the Brazilian striker broke the monotonous game of a Corinthians who saw how the Caracas team matched twice in the neo chemistry Arena de San Pablo, as it had already happened in the 1-1 of the first leg.
Matheus Bidu scored the other Corinthian goal. The Colombian midfielder Juan Manuel Cuesta and the defender Adrián Martínez scored for the Venezuelan team.
In the last preliminary phase, the Paulista team will be measured to Barcelona from Guayaquil.
Universidad Central was a hard root bone that nobody expected. The Venezuelan team recovered from each blow he received until he could no longer.
Yuri Alberto’s goal in minute 3 among five rivals, after a good individual play by Peruvian André Carrillo, seemed to presage a corinthians military ride, but nothing is further from reality.
The ‘U’ neutralized the advantage three minutes later, in a bad defensive adjustment of the premises. The Colombian Juan Camilo Zapata crossed and his compatriot costs only in the small area.
The tie was matched again. The Corinthians game thickened.
To top it off, Daniel Sasso’s painting was about to surprise Hugo Souza in a header from Zapata. The Brazilian goalkeeper cleared what seemed impossible.
It was then that the Dutch Memphis Depay took out all his experience to endure a possession on the front and put a filtered pass to Matheus Bidu, who defined with a hard chut to advance again to the ‘Timão’ in the 40th minute.
Memphis Depay. Photo: EFE/ SEBASTIAO MOREIRASimarra fell asleep and prevented the side from staying offside.
But the UCV, with a past ease, scored the second in the discount time of the first half through Adrián Martínez. This time it failed, and much, Hugo Souza, who ate the corner kick.
At the start of the second half, Corinthians pressed again. The Argentine Rodrigo Garro And Depay, double, put Miguel Silva to work beautifully, who took advantage of the minimum to scratch seconds to the stopwatch with loss of time under the sticks.
The tension began to take over the clash. Between José Martínez and Samuel Sosa sparks jumped.
The minutes passed and Corinthians began to get impatient. In those, Kendrys Silva released a distant zambombazo that diverted Hugo Souza’s hair.
The drama was chewed in the stands of the neo Chemistry Arena, until Yuri Alberto hit everything inside the area to avoid a dramatic penalty batch.