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Uruguay 2: M. Campaign; M. Cáceres, S. Coates, D. Godín, M. Viña; _R. Bentancur (78 ′, M. Arambarri), F. Valverde; B. Rodríguez (87 ′, M. Gómez), G. De Arrascaeta (78 ′, J. Rodríguez), N. De la Cruz (56 ′, N. Nández); L. Suarez. DT: W. Tabárez.
Chile 1: G. Arias; P. Díaz, F. Sierralta, S. Vegas, N. Díaz (82 ′, E. Roco); JP Fuenzalida (68 ′, C. Pinares), A. Vidal, C. Baeza, Ch. Aránguiz; E. Vargas (68 ′, V. Dávila), A. Sánchez. DT: R. Rueda.
Goals: 1-0, 39 ′, Suárez scores a penalty after a Vegas hand collected by the VAR; 1-1 ‚54 ‘, Sánchez receives a pass from Aránguiz and defines crossed; 2-1 ‚90 +3 ‘, Gomez shoots from outside the area.
Referee: Eber Aquino (PAR). He admonished Coates, Bentancur (URU); Sierralta, Baeza (CH).
Centennial Stadium. No audience.
There are many ways to lose, but it will always be very painful when that loss is directly related to refereeing. With an incomprehensible charge, with a silenced whistle, who knows why. Ever Aquino, the Paraguayan referee, becomes an enemy of the state, because, with the help of the VAR, he did not charge a clear penalty for Chile. And in the next play Uruguay took a win out of nowhere in Montevideo.
Rueda surprised. He bet on Nicolás Díaz and placed him as a left back. On the right he left his brother Paulo and with that he gave another stroke: a line of four in the background, contrary to what he had rehearsed in his only training session at Juan Pinto Durán. The DT surely thought that this was how the local scheme was neutralized, with only one reference in attack (Luis Suárez) and three flyers behind him to feed him. A little used by Celeste, perhaps due to the absence of Edinson Cavani.
The concrete thing, beyond the tactical graphics, is that Chile was a competitive team in the first half. Surprising level Francisco Sierralta, one of the rookies in Playoffs, with personality in the center of the rear. He did not shrink from the Uruguayan gunner. The weakness was precisely for the gangs, with the Díaz brothers, who found it difficult to assert themselves.
Nico suffered more, and with good reason, because in the middle zone the Red one left more space for that zone. Because neither Aránguiz nor Baeza, players much more used to moving around the center, regularly covered the shore. Thus, in the one on one, Brian Rodríguez was dominant against the youngest of the Diaz and brought danger.
In any case, and despite the greater Uruguayan dominance, the game was more or less calm for Gabriel Arias in the goal. It is true that the crossbar saved him after a shot from Valverde, but he did not suffer much more. To unlevel, the local needs the help of the VAR (and also of Paulo Díaz, who lost the ball at the start). The technology notified the referee Aquino of a Vegas hand (debatable because it first hit the thigh) and Suárez did not forgive the gift of the judges to open the account
The goal a few minutes before the break seemed like a very harsh punishment for the visit. Rueda had to rebuild team morale, rely on the greatest, bet on the leadership of the four insignia of the golden generation. Vidal, to be fair, was already the best on the pitch by distance, but Aránguiz, Vargas and Sánchez needed a greater presence. And boy did they hear the call, because precisely a very beautiful triangulation of these three ended with the tie, the work of Alexis (54 ′).
At that point, the National Team showed its best face in the Centennial. With presence in the opposite field, with the commitment of all and complicating a firm defense, but also very rustic. Sánchez won three kicks in five minutes, with the permissiveness of Judge Aquino. The Inter striker had the entire rear guard very agitated, while Vidal dominated the entire midfield. Omnipresent.
Chile deserved more. And Aquino himself, in complicity with the VAR, took that possibility away from him. Because just as they were drastic on Vegas’s hand, they were indecently quiet on an obvious Coates hand, which was supposedly checked. With justification, the Chilean painting felt stolen.
The anger then turned into frustration, grief, helplessness. Because in the discounts Maxi Gómez took a right hand that defeated Arias and declared it 2-1 for Uruguay. Unfair, mean for a Chile that did not play to lose and that anyway was defeated in the Centennial. Again.
