The Argentine Under-17 soccer team took advantage of a gust today and ideally started the final hexagonal of the South American category that takes place in Ecuador, by beating their Chilean counterpart 2-0in Quito.
At the Liga Deportiva Universitaria stadium, one of the venues for this decisive phase, the team led by Diego Placente He attacked at the end of the first part and made the difference that was defining.
santiago lopez (42m.) and Claudio Echeverri (46m.) They converted the goals for the Albiceleste team, which obtained its fourth win in five appearances in the continental competition.
The two teams ended up with ten players due to the expulsions they received Ulises Gimenez (St. 7m.), in the Argentine formation; and ivan roman (St. 20m.), in the “Rojita”.
Argentina will assume the second match of the hexagonal this Friday against Venezuela.
The team led by pleasant He completed a very good first half in which he ended up prevailing, based on the superlative task of his most valued player: the chaco echeverri.
The River Plate youth, the same one who from Núñez was set a termination clause of 50 million dollars, pulled the strings and made his teammates play, assisting them with stinging qualifications.
In addition, with the self-assurance that is already beginning to be noticed, “Diablito” dribbled forward and showed a change of pace, in a team that exhibited different variants to reach the opponent’s fence.
At 42m., when Argentina already dominated the development, the opening of the blackboard arrived, after a good combination Echeverri-Ruberto-Lopezthat the kid from Independiente defined in the small area.
And before the end of the first period, the national team increased the advantage with a wonderful definition of echeverri, who left the goalkeeper snubbed Valdes with a dribble and stretched the ball towards the net.
In the second period, the Argentine victory could have been compromised with the early expulsion of Ulises Giménez (due to a double warning), but Chile -apart from the changes- did not improve and hardly disturbed the Argentine goal. And on top of that, quickly, he was left with ten for the red card to Román.
Argentina took a successful first step and awaits what will come with optimism, in which the initial objective will be focused on getting one of the four places for the World Cup in the category.
-Synthesis-
Argentina: Froilan Diaz; Ulises Giménez, Juan Giménez, Juan Manuel Villalba and Axel Cabellos; Kevin Gutierrez, Mariano Gerez, Ian Subiabre; Claudio Echeverri; Agustin Ruberto and Santiago Lopez. DT: Diego Placente.
Chile: Francisco Valdes; Víctor Campos, Iván Román, Lucas Velásquez and Benjamín Ampuero; Ignacio Vásquez, Alejandro Hales, Cristian Morales and Francisco Marchant; Oliver Ramis and Diego Opazo. DT: Hernán Capunto.
Goals in the first half: 42m. Lopez (A); 46m. Echeverri (A)
Changes in the second half: before the start; Benjamin Riquelme for Hales and Felipe Valdivia for Ramis (CH); 12m. Dylan Gorosito for Subiabre (A); 14m. Diego Vargas for Velásquez and Benjamín Castro for Opazo (CH); 17m. Gustavo Albarracín for López (A); 24m. Felipe Faúndez for Vásquez (CH); 32m. Alejo Sarco for Gutiérrez, Maximiliano Porcel for Echeverri and Valentino Acuña for Ruberto (A)
Incidents in the second part: 7m. expelled Ulises Giménez (A); 20m. expelled Roman (CH).
Reprimanded: S. López (A) Vásquez, Castro and Valdivia (CH)
Stadium: Rodrigo Paz Delgado (Quito)
Referee: Javier Bentancur (Uruguay)
Source: Ambito
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