Franco Fagundez and Leandro Lozano4 and 20 minutes into the first half, respectively, scored the goals of the Uruguayan team, which had five players absent, disaffected after having tested positive for Covid.
In return, and thanks to this victory, Nacional was better off ahead of the rematch, which will be played next Tuesday in the city of Santa Fe.
The visiting team suffered from the beginning, because National played with great intensity, pressed and immediately scored the first goal, with a shot from Fagundez from the crescent that got into the left stick of Santiago Mel.
A Union it cost him to progress, although in a counterattack Imanol Machuca He finished off inside the small area and met with a great response from Serge Rochet, who then covered the entrance of Matias Gallegos.
But National He did not slow down at any time and went in search of the second goal, which came through Lozano, who picked up a rejection, after a corner, and put the ball at an angle with a violent right hand.
Later, in the complementary part, the Uruguayan team could no longer sustain their intensity, but they dominated the game with more calm, they circulated the ball with Castro’s intelligence and disturbed their forwards: Alex Fagundez and Emanuel Gigliotti.
After a tepid attempt Gallegos, with a high shot, again National tried to stretch the lead, and came close with a shot from Gigliotti, and in the last stretch of the game the figure of Scrum to save Union.
The young Uruguayan who saves for the Santa Fe team had three fundamental interventions to avoid a broader fall, which would have definitively buried his team’s chances.
formations
National: Sergio Rochet; Leandro Lozano, Leo Coelho, Mario Risso, Camilo Candido; Alfonso Trezza, Felipe Carballo, Diego Rodríguez, Alex Castro; Franco Fagundez and Emanuel Gigliotti. DT: Pablo Repetto.
Union: Santiago Mele; Federico Vera, Franco Calderón, Diego Polenta, Claudio Corvalán; Enzo Roldán, Juan Portillo, Imanol Machuca, Mauro Luna Diale; Matías Gallegos and Kevin Zenón. DT: Gustavo Munua.
Goals in the first half: 4m Fagúndez (N); 20m Lozano (N).
Substitutions in the second half: 12m Joaquín Trasante for D.Rodríguez (N); 20m Franco Troyansky for Gallegos (U) and Juan Nardoni for Portillo (U); 28m Juan Ramírez for Gigliotti (N) and Leandro Otormín for Fagúndez (N); 29m Bryan Castrillón for Machuca (U) and Martín Cañete for Zenón (U); 44m Matías Zunino for Castro (N) and Santiago Ramírez for Trezza (N).
Referee: Cristian Garay (Chile).
National Stadium.
Source: Ambito
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