Everything worked out for Comunicaciones and nothing worked for Cobán in the second leg of the Clausura 2024 quarterfinals.
More than 7,500 people packed the José Ángel Rossi stadium in Alta Verapaz, the scene that hosted the quarter-final second leg match between CSD Cobán Imperial and Comunicaciones FC and which ended with a solid victory for the team led by Uruguayan coach Willy Coito.
In the first leg, played at the Cementos Progreso stadium, the white team won 1-0 thanks to a goal from its Ecuadorian scorer Juan Luis Anangonó, who on April 27 rounded off his performance with another goal.
Although the first approach of the match came from Comunicaciones through Jorman Aguilar, the team that took the initiative was Cobán Imperial; however, just following the second half began, the white team took the lead thanks to the appearance of Anangonó.
Carlos Mejía attacked from the left sector of the Cobán area, took a shot that Minor Álvarez rejected and The ball remained dead, at that moment Juan Luis Anangonó, with his scoring instinct, took the opportunity to send the ball to the back of the Coban goal..
With the overall score at 0-2, Cobán lost creativity and his offensive actions were reduced to crosses into the area that were entirely controlled by the cream defense.
The little hope that Cobán had was maintained by goalkeeper Minor Álvarez in a double intervention in the 68th minute; He first denied Antonio López the goal and then took out Londoño’s shot to prevent his goal from falling.
When it seemed that Lezcano was ending the series, the crossbar avoided what might have been Communications’ third.
Finally, it was Antonio López who scored the goal that buried all Cobanera aspirations of a comeback in the 86th minute.
“There was no margin for error, this is a new tournament and there is a lot of commitment, it is reflected, we won at home and away, this is Communications”Anangonó expressed to the media at the end of the game.
“It is normal that we have ups and downs, but there has always been unity and commitment and even more so in these instances when we know that a mistake is not worth it, we leave happy,” he exclaimed.
“We were intelligent, we knew that the rival was going to get desperate, we took advantage of the opportunities we had,” concluded the man who scored two of his team’s three goals.
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