Gymnastics eliminated and with some disturbances in the South American.
Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata became the second Argentine team along with Huracán to be eliminated from the Copa Sudamericana by finishing last in Group G after losing this Wednesday 1-0 on their visit to Universitario, from Peru, in the Monumental state of Lima, for the sixth and last date of the zone phase, where at the end of the match there was a confrontation between footballers from both teams.
Piero Quispe 40 minutes after The first half scored the winning goal for the Peruvian team, which is led by Uruguayan Jorge Fossati and featured three Argentines as starters: defender Matías Di Benedetto, midfielder Martín Pérez Guedes and striker Emanuel Herrera.
*100005 * In the first five minutes of the match, the team from La Plata scored two goals canceled by the Uruguayan referee Esteban Ostojich due to both advanced positions, but this, instead of discouraging the visitors, encouraged them to keep looking, because they saw that their rival was permeable and the aspirations of reaching third place in the group could be possible.
But when he was at his best in the first half, around 40 minutes in, Piero Quispe appeared with a low shot against the left post of Tomás’ goal Durso to grant the undeserved but highly celebrated advantage to the home owners.
With that burden the Argentine team went to the locker room, which at that time was going to need at least three goals to reach a playoff with a second from Libertadores, since Goiás was winning 1-0 with a goal from Guilherme 24 minutes into the initial stage in Bogotá.
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But in the second half the Peruvians, knowing that with the victory they would take place in that space that Gymnastics intended to occupy, and if the Colombians tied, they could even win the group and enter the round of 16 of South America directly. They no longer risked as much in order to increase what they had, but dedicated themselves more to preserving it.
Then the roads began to close to those led by Sebastián Romero, and in the midst of growing impotence it was when the promising midfielder of the U-20 team, Ignacio Miramón, lost a ball in the middle of the field and in his eagerness to recover it he committed an offense that earned the Uruguayan referee a red card.
This, and the simultaneous news that Independiente Santa Fe had tied in Colombia with a goal from the inextinguishable Hugo Rodallega, which had a contagious effect on the locals, who now knew that by converting two more goals they could finish first in the area and consequently classified to the round of 16.
When everything It seemed finished and in discount Franco Torres, from Gymnastics, also received the red card, after Ostojich’s final whistle, who admonished Agustín Ramírez with the match finished, a fight broke out between some visiting players with others from the local team, observing each other Among the most bitter were Leonardo Morales del Lobo and Andy Polo from the hosts.
Then the blows and shoves between footballers from both sides and also from the visitors with the security forces, something that was later transferred to the access area to the changing rooms, also led to the local public throwing projectiles at the players of the La Plata team.
In this way, Group G closed with Goiás first and classified to the round of 16 with 12 points , followed by Universitario with 10, while Independiente Santa Fe finished with 7 and Gimnasia with 4.
Synthesis
Universitario: José Carvallo; Aldo Corzo, William Riveros and Matías Di Benedetto; Andy Polo, Martín Pérez Guedes, Piero Quispe, José Bolívar and Alfonso Barco; Emanuel Herrera and Alex Valera. DT: Jorge Fossati.
Gymnastics: Tomás Durso; Bautista Barros Schelotto, Leonardo Morales, Diego Mastrángelo and Nicolás Colazo; Ignacio Miramón, Antonio Napolitano, Franco Soldano and Alan Lescano; Benjamin Dominguez and Cristian Tarragona. DT: Sebastián Romero.
Goal in the first half: 40m. Quispe (U).
Changes in the second half: 15m. Horacio Calcaterra by Boat (U) and Jorge Murrugara by Herrera (U), 20m. Franco Torres for Napolitano (G) and Guillermo Enrique for Barros Schelotto (G). 30m. Ivo Mammini for Soldano (G) and Eric Ramirez for Colazo (G), 38m. Luis Urruti for Quispe (U), 40m.Agustín Ramírez for Domínguez (G), 44m. Marco Saravia for Pérez Guedes (U) and Alexander Succar for Valera (U).
Reprimanded: Pérez Guedes, Polo, Barco, Riveros, Murrugarra, Carvallo and Urruti (U). Domínguez, Mastrángelo, Enrique and Agustín Ramírez (G)..
Incidents in the second half: 25m. sent off Miramón (G) and 45+7m. Torres (G) expelled.
Field: Monumental Stadium, Lima.
Referee: Esteban Ostojich (Uruguay).
