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Venezuela turned it around against Ecuador and started the Copa América 2024 well.
The meeting, which was very attractive, opened the activity of Group B in which later Mexico and Jamaica They will play in Houston.
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At 22′, at the request of the VAR, Enner Valencia was expelledone of the figures of the Ecuadorian team, after a tough tackle against a rival defender when he was trying to take advantage of a rebound inside the Venezuelan area.
The expulsion of Enner Valencia
The expulsion was a hard blow for Ecuador, but in any case the opening of the scoring came for the team led by the Spanish Félix Sánchez Bas and it was at 40′ through a good definition by Jeremy Sarmiento.
Sarmiento’s goal
With an extra man, Venezuela was determined to seek equality, but it also left space for Ecuador’s counterattacks and that is why the game was very entertaining and with goal situations in both goals.
La Vinotinto, directed by Fernando Batista, found equality at 20′ through Johnder Cadiz who defined after a quick side from a teammate.
Cádiz’s goal
The goal rewarded and excited Venezuela, who found solutions on the substitute bench and turned it around 30 minutes into the second half with the goal scored by Eduard Bello.
The second one was done by Bello
In the end, Ecuador played the rest, but did not find the way to defeat a Venezuelan team that knew how to assert his greater control of possession and could even have increased the difference.
Both teams will play again on Wednesday the 26th since at 7 p.m. Ecuador will face Jamaica and at 10 p.m. it will be the crossroads between Venezuela and Mexico.
