Hurricane might not tonight with Sporting Cristal in Peru, and was left out of the Copa Libertadores in the last instance of the third phase. They fell 1-0 in the second leg, with a goal from Irven Ávila at the end. El Globo will now play the South American in the group stage.
Due to the defeat, the Argentine team he lost the possibility of getting $3,000,000 just for participating in that group stage of the Libertadores plus 300,000 for each of the six games he had played.
Now the Libertadores 2023 will have only five Argentine teams (Boca Juniors, River Plate, Racing Club, Argentinos Juniors and Patronato, from Paraná).
for his part Huracán will be the seventh Argentine team to play the South American this year together with Gimnasia y Esgrima La Pata, Defensa y Justicia, Tigre, Newell’s Old Boys, Estudiantes de la Plata and San Lorenzo.
The game started very badly for Huracán, since barely 10 seconds had elapsed when the Brazilian referee Raphael Claus sanctioned a penalty for the Peruvians, but the VAR intervention annulled the action for a foul prior to the decisive play.
And around the quarter hour the Brazilian Brenner (the coach of the Lima team, Tiago Nunes, is also a coach) scored the opening goal, once once more validated by his compatriot Claus and once more invalidated by the VAR.
Of course, these actions were not sporadic, but the product of the constant dominance and better play of the local team, something that lasted until half an hour into that first stage.
It was only from then on that he began to gain a foothold in the game, and as if sensing that luck was playing in his favor following that beginning in which he might well be two goals down, he began to cheer up a little more and consequently to manage the game. ball and risk approaching the fence defended by Renato Solís.
And the goalkeeper was key in the expiration of that first half when Huracán had the opportunity to go to the locker room in advantage on a couple of occasions in which Nicolás Cordero won in the air game before two corner kicks.
After that end of the first 45 minutesthe second part was already more balanced and the most distributed risk actions, so the two had chances to reach the 90-minute lead.
Because the people of Lima showed off a neat and incisive game and Huracán did the mirror effect, which meant that those who attacked prevailed over those who defended and then the attraction of the match was from area to area.
And when everything seemed to lead to the definition by penalty kicks, Claus gave five minutes of extra time, which later reached eight, and in the sixth the entered Juan Manuel García won in a pique and went hand in hand with Solís, but instead of crossing the ball from right to left he chose to define at the near post, and the ball skimmed the post.
And in response Sporting Cristal came out playing on the right, made eight consecutive touches forward and the entered Irven Ávila received an open and unmarked shot in the right corner of the six-yard box and with a low shot with his right foot to the left of goalkeeper Lucas Chaves He ended up giving his team the victory and qualifying for the Libertadores group stage, which for the first time in history has reached that instance since a previous qualifying round.
For Huracán, meanwhile, there was the bitterness of suffering two consecutive setbacks in four days in the last minutes of their away games, for the Professional League at to fall on Sunday 2-1 with Estudiantes in La Platawhich meant the interruption of his undefeated following seven dates, and today to run out of Libertadores.
“Players they broke their souls and had a great game. Because the way is here. Life is like that and not only football, so you have to get up and continue, like every day, fighting for it in each training session at La Quemita”, the Huracanense technical director, Diego Dabove, closed the bitter night in Lima at the press conference at the end of the match.
_ Source: Telam Agency
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