Triumph that gives back the soul to University of Chile. The blue box defeated this Thursday by 2-1 to Palestinian in La Cisterna, for the 25th date of the National Championship, to avoid falling into the relegation zone on this day, in the duel that marked the return to the coach’s interim Sebastian Miranda.
After last week’s draw against United Coquimbo with a very poor level of play, and that meant the departure of the Uruguayan Diego Lopez from the bench, the students were compromised in the table, so they had the obligation to beat the Arabs so as not to end up in the red zone on this date. And although they ended up suffering, they got the job done.
With the return of Miranda, the laity showed an improvement and another face in the first half to take a valuable victory after eight games without celebrating for this contest.
Already at 11 ‘the university students warned when Dario Osoriothe “jewel” of the squad, scored in the second instance, but the goal was invalidated due to an early position after a VAR review.
And although the homeowners had the chance to score at 21′ with a poorly connected header from José Bizama under the goal and after a corner kick, the U kept insisting and got their prize after half an hour.
At 32′ José Castro sent a cross from the left and Franco Pardo put his head in to send the ball into his own goal. Later, at 37 ‘, Lucas Assadi sent a run to the right and launched a pass that was cleared, but the young man found himself with the ball again and took a shot in which the ball deflected and beat the goal.
In the complement, the game got tangled up for the students, because they lowered the level, gave the ball to a local that grew and put the rival in the area.
The colony team had chances to discount at 52 ‘and 58’, but it was at 65 ‘that they narrowed the numbers, when the lay defense fell asleep, a center came from the left and Emmanuel Ojeda sent the ball to his own goal. The goal was ratified with a VAR review.
However, in the end, Universidad de Chile endured the victory and added three gold points to move away from the red zone, by partially climbing to the 13th box, with 26 units, four more than Deportes Antofagasta, which is in relegation position, but who must play later against Curicó Unido. Meanwhile, Palestino stagnated in fourth place, with 37 positives, and is moving away from the fight to qualify for the Copa Libertadores.
Palestinian
Daniel Sappa; Brian Vejar, Jose Bizama, Christian Suarez, Vincent Fernandez; Franco Pardo (59′, Andrew Vilches), Augustin Farias, Felipe Chamorro (83′, Nicholas Meza), Bryan Carrasco, Jonathan Benitez, Bruno Barticciotto. DT: Gustavo Costas.
University of Chile
Christopher Fields; Jonathan Andia (51′, Bastian Tapia), Luis Casanova, Nery Dominguez, Jose Castro (73′, Luis Felipe Gallegos); Emmanuel Ojeda, Israel Poblete, Darius Osorio, Lucas Assadi (74′, PhilipSeymour), Christian Palacios (81′, Junior Fernandes), Ronnie Fernandez. DT: Sebastian Miranda.
Referee: Piero Maza.
Estadio: Municipal The Cistern.
