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Life and football have a lot of poetry and yesterday was a new sample of those magical coincidences. Exactly nine minutes and 59 seconds from the start of the match and the end of the tributes to Carlos Campos, the historic scorer, distinguished “9” from Universidad de Chile and who in 1959 won his first blue crown, the account was opened . An impressive shoe from Walter Montillo, after a pivoting from Larrivey, gave the students an advantage at the Nacional against the tough Santiago Wanderers.
In the box, the Argentine midfielder’s goal, who was returning after a muscle injury, was shouted with everything by the large family of Tanque Campos, who will surely not forget the emotional day. The one that had 199 balls in the south area to pay tribute to the number of conquests of the World Cup player and the U players playing the match with an unprecedented black shirt as a sign of mourning.
The match was going to mean the debut of Rafael Dudamel, but Covid-19 said other things and Marcelo Jara had to take over in his replacement, although supervised by the Venezuelan from his health residence waiting to be able to recover and lead the work. In fact, the former Vinotinto technician was able to stream the training sessions during the week.
On the court, the Blues changed their scheme. Matías Rodríguez was once again right back and Diego Carrasco covered the absence of Jean Beausejour on the left wing. The first suffered too much with the overflows of Carlos Rotondi, while the student defense had to endure the power of Ronnie Fernández, who generated a lot of danger and also the speed of Sebastián Ubilla, who had a clear option, which was avoided by Fernando de Paul. In attack, Nicolás Guerra was able to increase at 22 ‘, but Mauricio Viana took his shot away. And although the locals did not arrive so much, they were forceful. The return of Montillo, in that sense, fixed enough the lack of clarity to resolve during his absence.
When it seemed that the caturros were grabbing the university students’ hand, at 49 ′ (yes, again a nine), Gonzalo Espinoza dispatched another shot from an inaccessible distance for Viana. Again kicking from outside the area was the starting point for difficult moments. Despite the 2-0, the porteños were not daunted and continued to demand De Paul’s goal, but the goalkeeper was again at a high level and took clear goal balls, such as Rotondi’s header at point blank range (55 ′).
Faced with the wandering onslaught, Marcelo Jara sent Fernando Cornejo to the court for an opaque Angelo Henríquez. And despite the more defensive role of the midfielder, in the first play he had he overflowed through the right sector and was brought down by Viana in the area. Judge Rodrigo Carvajal charged a penalty and Joaquín Larrivey was relentless to sentence the match, at 71 ′, and to reach his fifteenth goal in the tournament.
From then on, with the result in his pocket, the U devoted himself to exploiting the spaces. At 77 ′, Montillo was able to score the fourth goal. However, Viana avoided it with her hand outside the area, automatically earning herself an expulsion. After that play, the lay coach sent Brandon Cortés, one of the recent additions, to the court and who showed some interesting movements.
At 83 ′, Wanderers could have his prize for effort, but Carvajal retracted the penalty that De Paul had charged on Rotondi. The Tuto would later avoid the discount by covering a shot at Canelón when the match was already expiring, showing that, despite the result, the U had to struggle a lot to return to victory and pay tribute to their eternal idol.
Data sheet
U. of Chile
From Paul; Rodríguez, González, Casanova, Carrasco; Moya (90 + 3 ′, Martínez), Espinoza; Montillo (90 + 3 ′, Contreras); Henríquez (64 ′, Cornejo), Larrivey; Guerra (80 ′, Cortés). DT: M. Jara
S. Wanderers
Viana; Retamal (46 ′, Canelón), Gonzalez, García, Cerezo; M. Fernández, Miño, Medel, Rotondi; Ubilla (81 ′, Sources), R. Fernández (64 ′, Gutiérrez). DT: M. Ramírez.
Goals: 1-0, 10 ′, Montillo, with an impeccable shot away. 2-0, 49 ′, Espinoza, with a very tight distance shot. 3-0, 71 ′, Larrivey, from a penalty.
Referee: Rodrigo Carvajal. He admonished Guerra, Espinoza (U) and Rotondi, R. Fernández, Viana (W). At 77 ′, he sent off Viana for covering a shot from Montillo with his hand outside the area.
National Stadium. No audience.
In italics, youth players.
