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Both Unión La Calera and Hispanics responded to expectations. Two of the best teams of the 2020 championship animated an entertaining duel in the Valparaíso Region. However, the venue was more effective and achieved a victory, or first of the tournament, with a colocolino flavor.
And it is that before the six minutes, the santiaguinos had lavished three occasions of goal that could well break the zero early in the party. First, the youthful Benjamín Galdames warned and, later, Cristian Palacios demonstrated the constant danger that his presence means. In partnership with Patricio Rubio, the Uruguayan finished crossed and in the next his header went just next to the left side of Alexis Martín Arias.
It seemed that the Caleranos did not get used to the game, especially after new coach Luca Marcogiuseppe arranged a three-man line in the back.
However, after those first few minutes of uncertainty, the local managed to match the process. They even had the clearest at the beginning, when the Spanish defense made the offside line wrong and Jeisson Vargas could not defeat the correct goalkeeper Diego Sánchez.
Although the premature departure of Matías Laba rearranged the midfield, Gonzalo Castellani’s delay gave him more presence in the middle. Then, the local team began to exploit the left side of the Hispanics. The clearest situations were generated there, such as at 23 ′ when Andrés Vilches and Vargas himself could open the account.
La Calera pressed fast and attacked directly. However, the visitors were not far behind either. With quick transitions, they were able to get close to Martín’s goal, but the match did not come from zero in the first stage.
At the start of the second half, Marcogiuseppe made the decision that changed the course of the game. The entrance of the Uruguayan Octavio Rivero, the same one that did not reach an agreement with Colo Colo, made you feel lagging behind Hispanic.
The first warning was a quick action by the Uruguayan who ended Vargas’s shot, repelled in a good way by Sánchez, one of the figures of the day.
However, in the quarter of an hour of the complementary, the team of the Fifth Region he exploited the great flaw in Union’s rear: the offside line. A pass with an advantage from Castellani found only Rivero who faced Mono and defeated him with a low shot for the first goal of the match.
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Minutes later, La Calera again caught the rival defense ahead. Of course, this time Jorquera knocked down Vargas when he was going to demand the goal. After a VAR review, referee González took the red from the side of the santiaguinos.
With the match at will, the Chilean runner-up’s coach allowed the debut of Jorge Valdivia, another of the team’s stellar reinforcements. Despite the short time, the Magician tried a couple of tricks to demonstrate its validity.
It was key in the Calerano objective: to have the ball before the fight was over. At 86 ′, a foul was made near the area and in the next free kick he was close to scoring his first goal with the new shirt.
In the final minutes, a couple of good passes finished clarifying the doubts about its validity, but the result was already tied. The cement producers achieved their first triumph after the tie with the albos on the first date. The same one in which Unión had defeated Wanderers, before the uncertainty that Jorge Pellicer’s last line left yesterday.
Union La Calera: Alexis Martín; Christian Vilches, Santiago García, Érick Wiemberg; Simón Ramírez, Matías Laba (13 ′, Matías Fernández), Esteban Valencia, Yerco Oyanedel (85 ′, Nicolás Orellana); Gonzalo Castellani (85 ′, Víctor González), Jeisson Vargas (77 ′, Jorge Valdivia); Andrés Vilches (46 ′, Octavio Rivero).
Spanish Union: Diego Sánchez; Stefano Magnasco, Juan Pablo Gómez, Thomas Galdames, Marcelo Jorquera; Rubén Farfán, Gonzalo Villagra, Víctor Méndez, Benjamín Galdames (70 ′, Mario Larenas); Patricio Rubio, Cristian Palacios
Goal:1-0, 60 ′, Rivero.
Referee: Felipe González, who admonished Wiemberg and Vilches (LC); and to Magnasco, Sánchez (EU). Red Card: Marcelo Jorquera (69 ′).
Stadium: Nicolás Chahuán.
