River thrashed a Independiente del Valle 6-2 in a match corresponding to the fifth date of group B of the Copa Libertadores played at the Monumental Stadium and qualified for the round of 16 of the tournament.
Sebastián Driussi, at 8 minutes of the first half, Luis Zárate against 26, Franco Mastantuono de Criminal at 50, both in the same period, and Maximiliano Meza at 6 of the complement, Miguel Borja to the 43 and Manuel Lanzini to the 49 converted the goals for the millionaire team.
Meanwhile, Michael Hoyos and Claudio Spinelli did the same at 11 ‘and 22 minutes for the visit, respectively.
On the other hand, Mateo Carabajal was expelled in the Ecuadorian team at 48 minutes.
With this result, those commanded by Marcelo Gallardo sealed their presence in the following instance of the Libertadores. Now, they must receive University of Peru on Tuesday, May 27 from 9:30 p.m. for the last day of the group stage.
Prior to that, you will receive Platense from the quarterfinals of the Apertura tournament, next Tuesday from 9:30 p.m.
For its part, Independiente del Valle was in the third position of Group B and the classification will be played to the round of 16, in a local condition, in front of Barcelona in Ecuador (4th), on the same day and schedule.
In the dawn of the game, Lucas Martínez Quarta went down a corner shot from the left for the legada of striker Driussi, who was attentive and pushed the ball at the bottom of the network to open the score for the premises.
However, an error in the departure by the millionaire complex resulted in the equality of Ecuadorians, thanks to the definition of holes.
Eleven minutes later, Layan Loor won the duel to Germán Pezzella and sent a center to Spinelli’s head to turn the match.
However, in an unfortunate action, Luis Zárate tried to cut a Raso de Fabricio Bustos center, but ended up pushing the ball to the bottom of the arc defended by Guido Villar and put the tables back in the result.
On the closure of the first half, Mateo Carabajal saw the red card after holding Franco Mastantuono within the area and avoiding both those of Núñez. Even so, the young offensive flyer was in charge of executing the maximum penalty and turning the game.
As in the initial stage, River expanded the difference within a few minutes of the complement with a shot by Maximiliano Meza that suffered a diversion in a defender and lay on the pitch to the rival goalkeeper.
At 22 minutes, Miguel Borja had turned the fifth of Núñez, but referee Jesús Valenzuela Sáez, at the instances of VAR, annulled the same by a hand of the Meza steering wheel.
On the closure of the match, the 32 -year -old Colombian striker took two rivals from inside the area and defined stuck to the left stick of goalkeeper Guido Villar to turn the game into a win.
When it seemed that the result would not suffer more modifications, Manuel Lanzini took a powerful right from outside the area to sentence the comparison and classification to the round of 16 of the contest.
Synthesis River vs Independiente del Valle by Copa Libertadores
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