For the second date of group G of the continental competition, the team led by coach Eduardo Domínguez added the first victory and does not lose ground in pursuit of that first place that will allow it to survive in the competition.
In the second half, Leandro Benegas from Mendoza (adopted Chilean citizenship), at 20m, and Alan Soñora from New York, at 27m, gave the victory to the “red” team.
In the context of an even first period, Independiente had the clearest chances, although the generation of play was a pending matter. The Colombian Roa was well taken and could not progress in the field.
DT Domínguez’s team tried to prevail with the rise of the wings (Asis and Lucas Rodríguez), but the closed defensive device of the Guarani team prevented these attempts from crystallizing into something productive.
General Caballero, even in the first quarter of an hour, was encouraged to divide possession of the ball with Independiente, who was slow to settle into the field and showed some deficiencies in the defensive block.
Even so, Independiente was close to opening. At 27m, Batallini dispatched a shot on the outside of the net; At 35m., a shot from outside the area by Domingo Blanco led to a very good intervention by the visiting goalkeeper, Gustavo Arévalos.
And the goalkeeper of the Alto Paraná team once again excelled in a shot by Togni, at 41m.
The second period showed a livelier and deeper local team with the arrival of Alan Soñora and Tomás Pozzo. The two revulsive appeared to join Roa and generate play on the wings. Thus, beyond some clever defensive coverage, the Paraguayan team began to discover fissures in the background.
In the only concrete opportunity he had in the second half, General Caballero almost won the lottery jackpot, when Santiago Salcedo (former River Plate and Newell’s) came face to face with Sebastián Sosa, after a throw-in, and the Uruguayan goalkeeper disrupted the point-blank shot.
But, about 20m., Pozzo overflowed to the left, the ball bounced off a defender and Benegas appeared – who had done little in the development – to unlock a game that looked complex.
And a while later, a left-footed shot by Soñora turned into a missile that entered Arévalos’s right angle and gave “Rojo” a comforting distance in favor.
From then until the close, the Paraguayan team, even with the changes introduced, was no longer fresh enough to try to twist the story.
In the match played early in the morning, in Caracas, the Brazilian Ceará consolidated himself in the first position in the area with 6 points, by beating Deportivo La Guaira, from Venezuela, by 2-0 as a visitor.
Vina (Pt. 6m.) and Lima (Pt. 9m.) converted the goals of the team from the city of Fortaleza, which had debuted with a 2-1 victory over Independiente last week.
On the next day, on Tuesday 26, Independiente (3 points) will visit Deportivo La Guaira (1), while General Caballero (1) will receive leader Ceará (6) in the town of Juan León Mallorquín.
Source: Ambito
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