The people from Santa Fe took the lead 32 minutes into the first half through Facundo Farias but the Uruguayans turned it into a complement with the conquests of Pablo Ceppelini at three and Hernan Menosse at 29.
Immediately after that second conquest of the “mirasoles” there was a serious confrontation in the stands between a good part of the biases of both teams (Colón brought about a thousand fans), which caused the meeting to be interrupted for half an hour.
Later the Brazilian referee Anderson Daronco asked the security forces for instructions and when they gave him guarantees, he resumed the game.
By then Olimpia had already beaten Cerro Porteño 1-0 as a visitor with a goal by Fernando Cardozo 10 minutes into the first half in the Paraguayan classic and Peñarol had been eliminated from all international competition for this year.
Olimpia came third in the round of 16 of the Copa Sudamericana, the highest aspiration that Peñarol had left, and Cerro Porteño, due to a goal difference with his classic rival, entered as a companion of Colón to that instance of the Libertadores.
A curiosity that this match had occurred in the fourth minute of added time, when Argentine midfielder Claudio Aquino missed a penalty kick for Cerro Porteño. If he converted it, Peñarol would have qualified for the South American and Olimpia would have been eliminated by finishing fourth.
For Colón, meanwhile, good prospects now open for having ranked first in his area with uncertainty due to some casualties that the team led by Julius Falconi, such as that of Lucas Beltrán, who was announced tonight by coach Marcelo Gallardo who will return “next week” to River Plate, and Rodrigo Aliendro, whose contract is expiring and has several offers.
Colón won zone G with 10 points, followed by Cerro Porteño (+1) and Olimpia (0) with 8, closing Peñarol with 7.
– Synthesis –
Penarol: Kevin Dawson; Matías Aguirregaray, Hernán Menosse, Ramón Arias and Jairo O’Neil; Pablo Ceppelini, Rodrigo Saravia, Walter Gargano and Máximo Alonso; Lucas Viatri and Ruben Bentancourt. DT: Mauricio Larriera.
Columbus: Leonardo Burian; Eric Meza, Facundo Garcés, Paolo Goltz and Rafael Delgado; Rodrigo Aliendro, Federico Lértora, Cristian Bernardi and Andrew Teutén; Facundo Farias and Lucas Beltran. DT: Julio Cesar Falcioni.
Goal in the first half: 32m. Farias (C).
Goals in the second half: 3m. Ceppelini (P) and 29m. Less (P)..
Changes in the second half: At the start of Ignacio Laquintana for Gargano (P), 10m. Agustín Álvarez Martínez for Bentancourt (P), 27m. Agustín Da Silveira Muñoa for Menosse (P); Alejo Cruz Techera for Alonso (P), Gian Nardelli for Garcés (C), Tomás Moschion for Aliendro (C); Santiago Pierotti for Lértora (C) and Ramón Ábila for Bernardi (C); 40m.Damián Musto for Viatri (P) and Mauro Formica for Goltz (C).
Admonished: Goltz, Delgado and Teutén (C).
Stadium: Champion of the Century (Peñarol).
Referee: Anderson Daronco (Brazil).
Source: Ambito
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