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HE Athletic-PR He suffered with altitude, but achieved a heroic victory in Bolivia.
This Tuesday, the team visited Jorge Wilstermann, in a match valid for matchday 3 of the group stage of Conmebol Libertadores, and resumed the competition taking a 3-2 victory against the Bolivians, after being twice behind on the scoreboard. Gilbert Álvarez shook the nets for the hosts and Lucho González, Christian and Walter, in the 46th minute, scored for the Brazilians.
Suffering from the 2560 meters of altitude of Cochamba, the rubro-negro team had difficulties to be able to play, but returned to Curitiba with an excellent result, being the first victory in the history of the club at altitude in 8 games.
The Bolivians started better and opened the scoring in a failure of goalkeeper Santos.
At 10 minutes, a long shot found Álvarez at the entrance of the area, free. Santos took a long time to decide whether or not to hit the ball, and when he did, it was too late. Jorge Wilstermann’s forward took the wrong start, covered the goalkeeper with a hat before touching the empty net.
In the final stretch of the first stage, Athletico-PR began to create more and managed to draw. After a corner kick, Fabinho was thrown into the area and the referee whistled the maximum penalty. Lucho González charged very well and did not give the goalkeeper chances, who still hit the corner, but could not do anything.
In the second stage, the pace was maintained and the Hurricane tried to keep the score, but Jorge Wilstermann took less than 10 minutes to regain the lead. After a great exchange of passes, Chávez took out Serginho and the Brazilian, free in the small area, played for the back of the net, making it 2 to 1.
The athletic response came the same way. At 27 minutes, a beautiful box between Christian and Fabinho left the former well positioned inside the area to beat the defender and move goalkeeper Giménez to tie the game. And there was still time for more.
After 42 minutes, Serginho received the second yellow card and was sent off. With one more, Atlético turned around in extra time. Following a Jonathan cross from the right, Walter dominated the ball at the edge of the box and dropped the bomb to turn the tide and claim the heroic victory.
The result leaves Atlético-PR tied with Colo-Colo in the lead of Group C, both with 6 points. Jorge Wilstermann and Peñarol have 3 points each.
Jorge Wilstermann 2 x 3 Atlético-PR
GOALS: Gilbert Alvarez and Serginho (JOR); Lucho González, Christian and Walter (CAP)
JORGE WILSTERMANN: Giménez, Orfano, Zenteno, Benegas and Aponte; Melgar, Justiniano, Rodríguez, Chávez and Francisco; Alvarez; Technical: Cristian Diaz
ATHLETIC-PR: Santos, Jonathan, Aguilar, Pedro Henrique and Márcio Azevedo; Geuvânio, Erick, Wellignton and Christian; Fabinho and Lucho González; Technical: Eduardo Barros
Went to 1st victory in the history of the CAP at altitude in 8 games
Jorge Wilstermann hasn’t been out on the pitch since March 14 when he played for the Bolivian championship
Upcoming matches:
The two teams play again in the middle of next week for the Libertadores:
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Wednesday, 09/23, 7:15 PM *, Athletico-PR x Colo-Colo
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Thursday, 09/24, 7pm *, Jorge Wilstermann x Peñarol
* Brasilia Times
