Deportes La Serena closed the first chapter of the 2024 season, reaffirming its status as the sole leader of the Promotion Tournament, beating Deportes Temuco 0-1 at the Germán Becker Stadium. A victory, the tenth of the season in fifteen games, which allows them to reach 33 points, an advantage of seven over their closest pursuer Rangers, who must play their match against Recoleta, on Monday at the Piducano stadium.
The objective was to maintain, in the worst case depending on the results of their escorts, that difference of four units with which they entered the fifteenth date of the season, already looking at what will be the second act of this work whose goal of promotion at the end of the season.
And he won it, although in a brief way with the solitary goal from his top scorer Lionel Altamirano when the second period dawned, with category, solvency and conviction that were above the albiverde team that remains in penultimate place in the classification.
True to its style, La Serena offered a stingy game in the first minutes, although Gallegos, with a shot at the entrance of the area, demanded goalkeeper Yerko Urra, however, he stayed, letting the Pije team assume the intention. of the match, generating a couple of opportunities against goalkeeper Eryin Sanhueza, who controlled a low shot by Damián González and saw how a shot by Camilo Melibilú went over the crossbar from an unbeatable position.
Upon returning from the locker room for the second stage, Erwin Durán’s team hit from the start with the partnership that gave them the most fruit in the fifteen rounds, a center from Sebastián Gallegos, with a fixed tactic, found the scorer Altamirano, winning in the aerial game to the center backs to beat Urra.
It was the 46th minute and what came next showed a team with hierarchy and control of the game, despite the minimal difference, although it could have defined with a second goal if Ethan Espinoza had been able to violate the goalkeeper Urra whom he urged with a couple of shots from good position.
In this way, La Serena won again at the Germán Becker, which it had not achieved since 2000, closing the first round with 33 positives in the standings table, ten wins, three draws and two losses, 19 goals in favor and 8 against, with a difference of plus 11 that will keep him in that position as the second part of the process begins, which will be in La Portada receiving Antofagasta to go on date 17, to the capital to face the always complicated Magallanes.
