National Championship Match Recap: Catholic University and A Bold Italian End in Goalless Draw

2024-03-18 03:11:15

Catholic University y A bold Italian They closed the fifth date of the National Championship with a tense goalless draw at the Santa Laura Stadium, a match in which expulsions predominated in each team.

Both teams arrived with the serious need to be able to keep a victory and thus take a breather from the bottom of the table, but the “Crusaders” found themselves with an inspired day from the experienced Oscar Ustari and the Italian team had little clarity to generate clear scoring opportunities.

In fact, in the first half it was those from the foothills who took the reins and before 25 minutes they were already making Ustari work. FFernando Zampedri at 12′ and then Gonzalo Tapia In the 14th minute they were close to opening the scoring, while “Toro” himself minutes later had another chance that ended with a high shot.

As the game progressed, the siege of the venue decreased in frequency and at the same time to referee Piero Maza It slipped out of his hands. He first expelled the interim coach of the Italics Nelson Tapia for a complaint after half an hour of play, which would be one of the first incidents that involved the central judge.

In the second half everything went smoothly until in the 60′ Alfred Canales saw the double yellow and left the “Strip” team with one less player. However, the “Tanos” missed the opportunity to have a numerical advantage and quickly found themselves in an unfavorable situation with nine men on hand. red cards to Nicolás Fernández and Guillermo Ortiz in the 62nd minute, the first of them for a foul that cut off a promising attack by Aravena and the second for unsportsmanlike conduct against Maza.

More emotions would come towards the end of the commitment, because At 88′ Alexander Aravena achieved finally overcome Ustari’s resistance and score the first goal of the match in favor of UC. However, after reviewing the play on the VAR Maza ended up annulling it due to an advanced position by Zampedri by intervening in the vision of the Italics goalkeeper.

So, Universidad Católica was in twelfth position of the Championship with four units and after the break due to date FIFA must visit Huachipato in Talcahuano.

For its part, Audax is fourteenth with the same four points, and on the next date it will face Coquimbo Kingdom.