Montevideo.- Uruguay achieved a clear victory once morest Paraguay by 2-0 in Montevideo this Sunday and leads the South American U-20 together with Argentina, which beat Brazil by the same score, in a third round of the final hexagonal that also had the victory of Colombia once morest Peru 3-1. The Paraguayan dream of qualifying for the World Cup is diluted.
With two dates left in the tournament, which qualifies the top four for the 2015 New Zealand World Cup, Albicelestes and Charrúas lead with seven points, Colombia trails them with five points and Brazil is fourth with four.
Franco Acosta and Gastón Pereiro scored the goals for Uruguay, at 21 and 37 minutes, respectively.
In the first minutes, Guruceaga’s security was key to keeping a clean sheet in the goal of those led by Fabián Coito, but at 21 minutes everything would change thanks to a precise center from young Rodrigo Amaral, just 17 years old, who connected with a header. Acosta to open the scoring for Uruguay.
The goal gave the blue team the confidence to unleash their attack and hurt a Guaraní defense that until the first goal seemed insurmountable. With Uruguay in control, Amaral once once more showed his talent and with some feints he disconcerted the rival defense, passing the ball to Facundo Castro who took a cross that Pereiro headed into the back of the net.
With the tranquility of 2-0, Uruguay came out to play the complement somewhat dispersed and in the first minute the recently introduced Antonio Sanabria was alone in front of Guruceaga who took the danger out of his goal.
The Peñarol goalkeeper was important in the match, cutting off all the dangerous arrivals of Víctor Genes’ team with good saves.
The blow that definitively knocked out Paraguay’s aspirations came in the 64th minute when midfielder Ángel Benítez was sent off.
FINAL PHASE – SOUTH AMERICAN SUB 20
Date 3
Sunday February 1st
Uruguay 2 – 0 Paraguay
Stadium: Central Park
Time: 22:10
Goals: 21′ Franco Acosta (U), 37′ Gastón Pereiro (U)
Yellow cards: 35′ Angel Benitez (P), 64′ Angel Benitez (P), 85′ Antonio Sanabria (P)
Red: 64′ Ángel Benítez (P),
Referee: Ricardo Marques (Bra)
Assistants: Kleber Lucio (Bra) and Luis Vera (Ecu)
4th Referee: Roddy Zambrano (Ecu)
Details
Uruguay
12 – Gastón Guruceaga
21 – Guillermo Cotugno
19 – Erick Cabaco
2 – Agustín Ale
22 – Mathías Suárez
5 – Nahitan Nández
7 – Facundo Castro
8 – Mauro Arambarri (65′ Ramiro Guerra)
10 – Gastón Pereiro (84′ Facundo Boné)
20 – Rodrigo Amaral (74′ Jaime Báez)
11 – Franco Acosta
Substitutes
1 – Thiago Cardozo
23 – Michel Tabarez
3 – Matías Toma
6 – Ramiro Guerra
13 – Facundo Boné
14 – Diego Fagundez
15 – Gaston Faber
16 – Enrique Etcheverry
17 – Horacio Sequeira
18 – Franco Pizzichillo
9 – Jaime Baez
Technical Director: Fabián Coito
Paraguay
1 – Thomas Echague
5 – Saúl Salcedo
3 – Iván Cañete
13 – Omar Alderete
14 – José Sanabria
18 – Enrique Araújo (46′ Antonio Sanabria)
6 – Ángel Benitez
7 – Danilo Santacruz
20 – Jeremías Bogado (46′ Walter Araújo)
11 – Sergio Díaz (67′ Brahian Ayala)
19 – Walter González
Substitutes
12 – Joseph Colman
22 – Miguel Mereles
10 – Antonio Sanabria
15 – Marcos González
17 – Jesus Medina
9 – Luis Amarilla
23 – Brahian Ayala
21 – Walter Araújo
Technical Director: Victor Genes
(Fuente: conmebol.com / auf.com)
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2024-04-24 19:35:01
