Ñublense’s Epic Battle in Copa Sudamericana 2023: Heartbreaking Loss in Penalty Shootout against Liga de Quito

2023-08-11 04:04:41

nublense gave a great battle and said goodbye with great dignity to the Copa Sudamericana 2023following beating him by 3-2 to Liga de Quito in Ecuador (3-3 overall), but then fell for 4-3 on penalties.

The batch had the unfortunate failures of Manuel Riverahero in regulation time, following scoring the winning goal in agony, and patrick rubio.

For the chillanejos they scored penalties in the definition Bernardo Cerezo, Lawrence Reyes and Ismael Sosawhile for the homeowners and winners, they turned Paolo Guerrero, Lisandro Alzugaray, Leonel Quiñonez and Sebastian Gonzalez.

In game development, Liga took the lead following 26 minutes with an extraordinary header from Jhojan Juliowhich left goalkeeper Nicola Pérez without options.

Nevertheless, in the 33 minutes a turning point was going to be marked in this commitmentwith a clear penalty committed by the goalkeeper Alexander Domínguez with a puñetazo to Raimundo Rebolledo in the face.

Lo It is incredible that Domínguez was not expelleddespite the fact that he deserved it due to the violence of the foul, which ended up taking the ex-Universidad Católica off the pitch.

This situation was taken advantage of by “Pato” Rubio, who from the 12 steps he scored the 1-1 tie and gave life to those led by Jaime García.

The incredible second half

In the 60′ Chillán’s reds took the lead with an inexplicable self-goal by Richard Minawho tried to clear the ball following a good play by the newly entered John Leiva and Ismael Sosabut sent the ball to the end of his own arc with a powerful right hand.

From there, there were many arrivals from the locals who went all out, meeting the great figure of the national squad, the goalkeeper Nicola Pérez, who on at least three occasions was marvelous to prevent his goal from fallingone of them before a point-blank header from Paolo Guerrero, who between the goalkeeper and the crossbar saved Ñublense.

Despite this, The League managed to break the resistance of the visit, with a goal from Sebastián Gonzálezthe one who came on in the second half and found a cross in the area to put the ball in almost into the corner, which seemed like the end of the story (90′).

But, Those from Ñuble had one more bullet and at 90+2′ they scored the well-deserved goal of the winthanks a definition of Rivera to Domínguez’s weak response.

After this, came the already mentioned penalty shootout, in which Domínguez made up for himself and put the Ecuadorian team among the eight best in the South American, with two caps.

Now, Jaime García and his squad must focus on the National Championship, in which they must move away from the relegation zone, and in which they will face next Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. (16:30 GMT) once morest Unión La Calera in chillan.

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