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Uruguay started the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers with suffering but with a sweet taste, after beating Chile 2-1, with a goal after 92 minutes of play, to fulfill the tradition by winning and adding three.
A time for each team: the first for a suffocating Uruguay, precise at the start, with interesting associations and a lot of pressure in rival territory; Chile’s second full sacrifice, with intelligence to yield the ball and threaten in the counterattack and then defend by force of tactical discipline. But misfortune did its thing, in favor of the local.
The first to cheer up was Chile, in a play at 2 minutes in which Alexis took a long time and was left without a shot to open the account.
Valverde at 9 minutes stepped on the area to show himself to Suárez and put a rifle that rebelliously crashed on the crossbar.
Chile lacked a bit of confidence at the start and it seemed that the local team was tilting the court in their favor, which was going from band to band trying to pierce a firm, disciplined and tough Chilean defense.
Until the error and the VAR came. The technology would appear at 34, when in the rejection attempt, the ball bounces off the leg of 18 and crashes on the arm for the deflection, which in the review was a penalty and a goal by Suárez at 38.
The goal would boost a record for the ‘matador’, who added 60 goals with his team and consolidated himself as the top gunner for his country.
The Chileans asked for a penalty for an apparent foul at 51 that was not and in an error by the Uruguayan defense, the visitor finally made a difference: a luxury from Aranguiz enabled, in the slow return of the premises, almost nobody, Alexis Sánchez, who defined Very in his style Alexis, down, powerful, for the partial 1-1 at 53.
And from then on it was Chile for the defense of its visitor point, while Uruguay bogged down without an effective connector with the forwards, with an inconsequential Valverde and an impotent Suárez, and the fatigue that did its thing, when the wear and tear of having the ball without knowing how to hurt, clouded it.
And it could have been a surprise at the start of the qualifiers if the hand in the Coates area had not been interpreted as involuntary, after the VAR review, 3 minutes from the end. Chile was saved at 91 after a charge by Suárez that found Godín and the header went up.
But then the miracle appeared: a hesitation in the mark at the last minute, in 92 in fact, ended in a rebound in front of the area that was left for Gómez, a newcomer, for an agonizing 2-1, almost undeserved, that was reviewed by VAR but not modified.
The goalkeeper Campaña saved on the hour a surprise Chilean exit from the left and then time passed sentence and the Colombian DT Reinaldo and Chile opened with a painful, dramatic and almost unfair fall, and now they will have to go home to straighten the path. Eye Colombia!
