In the debut of Claudio Vivas as Drill coach, the Florencio Sola stadium was covered by the public to fire one of its historical scorers Although Banfield’s goal was scored by Jesús Dátolo, who relieved him towards the end, with a spectacular left-footed Chilean.
With this result, Banfield was eliminated from the South American, while the Ecuadorian Catholic depends on the combination of results in a group in which Unión La Calera and Santos fight for the lead.
The Argentine Miguel Rondelli, former technical director of the youth divisions of Vélez Sarsfield and coach of the Ecuadorians, implemented a defense with two strong central defenders and two tall full-backs, whom he stopped closer to midfield.
The visiting team is fighting for the lead in the Ecuadorian championship and is looking for cup positions, while Claudio Vivas planted two rows of four, but with Urzi freer to accompany Dario Cvitanich and “Juanma” Cruz.
The locals were more aggressive and thus Maciel had two header opportunities that were conjured up by goalkeeper Darwin Cuero. But then the game faded into insignificance, as Banfield only caused resistance with corner kicks and crosses, like his rival, only disturbing Bologna with two crosses.
In the last game of his career, Cvitanich moved around the front of the attack and went down to join the midfielders, leaving Cruz as the tower that had to fight with the rival defenders.
In the second half, the Ecuadorian Católica stopped further forward and showed a more aggressive attitude, while Banfield continued looking for the rival goal. At 10 minutes Giuliano Galoppo captured a rebound outside the area and shot the visiting goalkeeper, who rejected it, and the ball could not be spliced by Cvitanich to convert the first.
And at 21 minutes there was the emotional moment of the night when Jesús Dátolo replaced Cvitanich who left crying, while the whole stadium applauded and cheered him on.
Banfield had a chance again, again in the head of Maciel, that Cuero cleared with a great volley. With the entry of Dátolo, Perales and Álvarez, Banfield went to the front and recovered his goalscoring spirit.
And so he was able to put the Ecuadorians against his goal, until at 37 Quinteros overflowed and put in a cross before which Dátolo performed a sensational pirouette to put the Chilean ball at the far post. And so came the goal for the South.
But everything returned to normal with the discount in the second minute of injury time, when the Ecuadorians put together a great play with many passes in which the Argentine Alzugaray gave a pass to the void to Ismael Díaz and he defined softly before the exit of Enrique Bologna to score the tie.
The headlines of the Ecuadorian Catholic who entered in the second half, gave him the tie and showed the true face of the team that continues to fight for the Ecuadorian tournament.
Source: Ambito
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