Open key. Those led by Emiliano Astorga stood as equals against the Chilanejos, showing that they are up for great things.
TALCA. On the cold afternoon of yesterday, Wednesday, at the Fiscal stadium in Talca, the match that would begin the quarterfinals of the Chile Cup was played for the Rangers and Ñublense de Chillán squads, which arrived without major complications to said duel. , after beating amateur clubs.
Coach Emiliano Astorga made a couple of modifications to the formation, in compPlowing into the match against Comunal Cabrero with Rodríguez in goal; Felipe, San Juan, Acuña and Navarro in the background; in the midfield Márquez, Caroca and González; leaving Díaz, Gotti and their captain Alfredo Ábalos on the offensive.
The match began with a functional change in which Rangers were sometimes left with a line of three and high pressure, which forced Ñublense to retreat at times, causing corner and side kicks on the Chillán pitch. After 12 minutes of the match, the red-and-black team began to generate danger, causing rival errors that forced them to commit fouls.
SOLIDITY
The Talquino team demonstrated tactical solidity in the first 20 minutes, where Ñublense had to open on the wings to break the Piducana defense. Mauro González would try from mid-range a minute later, but the ball would go over the goal. At 23 in the first half, after a cross from Christopher Díaz, Gustavo Gotti would score the first goal. After the opening of the score, Ñublense would begin to have a more attractive game, forcing Gastón Rodríguez to work and get applause from the Talquina crowd. Even with the help of the post, after a chillanejo free kick that crashed into the horizontal. The game would get dirty with different infractions that the central judge, Nicolás Millas, dismissed or were not grounds for a warning. In the last minutes of the first half, Alfredo Ábalos would receive a foul not called by the referee, angering the Talquina party, going into halftime with the score in favor of the local team by the minimum score.
amateur clubs (photo by Carlos Alarcón Duarte).
SECOND ACT
At the beginning of the complement, Rangers came out with a variation by placing Kevin Egaña on the left wing, removing Byron Navarro from the formation. But just six minutes into the second half, Matías Plaza would score the tie for the visit, forcing Rangers to retreat. Rangers would continue looking for alternatives to gain the advantage, but leaving spaces in defense, so the Talquino goalkeeper on more than one occasion had to go out for the ball in various passages of the match. Gary Moya would look from mid-range, but the ball would go high.
TOIn the 69th minute, Christopher Díaz would look for a cross from González that would crash into the post, avoiding the second red and black target and drowning out the goal of the more than 1,500 Talquino fans who attended the Talca Prosecutor’s Office. It would be this same one who would score on the next play, but he would be invalidated due to forward position.
STRAIN
At 90′ minutes, a Chilaneja counterattack would leave the atmosphere tense in the Prosecutor’s Office, but Gastón Rodríguez once again prevented the increase of the team from the Ñuble Region. Sending the ball to the corner kick in the minutes of injury time of the match. Minutes that would not pass and the match would end in a 1-1 tie, leaving everything open for the return in the south, which will be this Sunday starting at 3:00 p.m. at the Nelson Oyarzún in Chillán.
