2023-10-07 22:41:50
Catholic University was reunited in the best way with the victory this Saturday on Date 26 of National Championship by winning by 0-3 a O’Higgins in Rancagua on a fiery day by its captain Fernando Zampedri.
That’s because the “Bull” scored a hat trick for victory and reached 101 goals with the “Franja” squad shirt, closing the gap with the club’s all-time top scorer Rodrigo Barrera.
Probably the game that UC played is the best since the arrival of Nicolás Núñez as coach, especially considering that in parallel with their scoring production they were able to leave Nicolás Peranic’s goal at zero.
Of course, the start of the match was not comfortable for those from the foothills, who had some problems controlling possession of the ball in the face of the pressure exerted by the “Celeste” squad and the wing attacks taking advantage of the speed of Facundo Castro and Francisco Arancibia .
However, the play at 29 minutes with a penalty handball by Fabián Hormazábal following a great play by Alexander Aravena It was the relief for the foreign team, who took the lead with Zampedri’s first goal, in the execution from the 12 steps that left Ignacio González without a response.
In the second half the home team tried to be more aggressive in attack but they did not have the necessary precision to make Peranic too uncomfortable, and taking advantage of that was that in the 60′ the students delivered the second attack with the “Bull” , who He sentenced everything with his “hat-trick” in the 71′.
Even the score might have been heavier for the team led by Núñez had it not been for a couple of goals disallowed by Aravena and Alfonso Parot in the complement.
This way, Universidad Católica was in sixth position with 37 points, entering the Copa Sudamericana qualifying zone before the long break that the tournament will have until next November, and they will return with nothing less than the classic once morest the U at a time to be confirmed.
O’Higgins meanwhile finished in twelfth place with 30 points, and his next rival in the tournament will be Unión Española.
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