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A great goal from Ardón marks a victory for Antigua: The results of the first leg quarterfinals of Clausura 2024
Antigua GFC got a positive result against Xinabajul thanks to a great goal from José Ardón and is already dreaming of the semifinals of Clausura 2024.
The duel ended with Antigua GFC’s victory over Xinabajul. (Free Press Photo: Mike Castillo)
The Los Cuchumatanes stadium was the scene where the last first leg of the quarterfinals of the Clausura 2024 Tournament was played, the Xinabajul Huehue led by coach Pablo Centrone and the Antigua GFC of Dwight Pezzarossi faced off.
The match in the previous looked like an opportunity for the colonial team to achieve a revenge against the of 10 games without defeat for Antigua with a solid 2-0 in Los Cuchumatanes.
With that precedent, the game began, which featured approaches for both teams in the first minutes.
Soon the ball was in Xinabajul’s possession, but the duel became rugged; The central referee Ignacio Fuentes had to resort to yellow cards and distributed two to each team when the timer had not yet reached 20 minutes.
The clearest shot of the first half was at the feet of Lucas Gómez in the 38th minute, but his shot reached the hands of goalkeeper Braulio Linares.
In the second half, Pezzarossi advanced lines and looked for Xinabajul’s goal, but as a consequence he left spaces in his defense and the local team tried to do damage through long passes to their forwards behind the colonial defense.
When it seemed that the game was approaching a tie, José Ardón went out of the script and took a powerful shot with his right foot from the outskirts of the area so that the ball ended up in the back of the goal of Estuardo Sicán who only adorned the goal. action with its flight.
Finally, the scoreboard no longer moved and Antigua GFC will face the second leg with a slight advantage.
This is how the first matches were
- Communications 1-0 Cobán Imperial
- Achievement 0-2 Mixco
- Malacateco 3-2 Municipal
- Xinabajul Huehue 0-1 Antigua GFC
Laps
- Cobán vs Comunicaciones, Saturday, April 27, 12 noon
- Mixco vs Achuapa, Saturday, April 27, 3 p.m.
- Municipal vs Malacateco, Sunday, April 28, 2:30 p.m.
- Antigua vs Xinabajul, Sunday, April 28, 6 p.m.
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