Colo Colo continues to prepare for the second semester and the great challenge it will have in the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores against Junior de Barranquilla. The albos received Universitario de Deportes at the Monumental Stadium in a striking international friendly.
They only managed to play a little more than 50 minutes, before a new disaster hit Chilean football. Once again violence took over football and After a series of artificial launches by Colo Colo fans, the referee decided to suspend the match when the score was 0-0. Even the footballers themselves had to help the Universitario supporters, after being affected by the incidents in that sector of the stadium.
Cepeda and Benegas complied
During the first half, Jorge Almirón fielded a team mostly made up of substitute players, except for Maximiliano Falcón. Within that ’11’, Leandro Benegas and Lucas Cepeda were the players who took advantage of the opportunity. Both the midfielder and the forward were the most dangerous in attack, in a duel that the Cacique completely dominated, at least as far as it was possible to play.
At 28′, Benegas connected with a header which went straight into the hands of goalkeeper Britos, and just a couple of minutes later he managed to turn in a great way to take a shot that went just a few centimeters away. While Cepeda had the clearest chance of the game at 35′, after a free kick at the entrance of the area that hit the post after a sensational execution.
During halftime, Jorge Almirón made 10 changes (only Bruno Gutiérrez was kept on the court), among them the entry of Arturo Vidal, Guillermo Paiva and Alan Saldivia. All of them were key men in the starting team, although due to the suspension of the match they were only able to play a few minutes, without any major impact on the game.
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