Late Penalty Earns Venezuela a Draw Against Argentina in Pre-Olympic Match

Penalty for Venezuela and end of the match

In one of the last plays of the match, and with the VAR review through, the referee awarded a penalty for Venezuela that Kevin Kelsy converted into a goal to seal the tie against the Argentine National Team.

With a strong shot, hitting the left post that the Argentine goalkeeper was unable to contain, the Vinotinto forward made it 2 to 2. Meanwhile, defender Gonzalo Luján saw the second yellow for the play and Argentina ended up with 9 players.

Now, those led by Mascherano will have to face Paraguay on Friday, to try to get closer to qualifying for Paris 2024.

Gondou was able to eliminate him

Federico Redondo put together an exquisite play and assisted the forward who, with his left foot, sent it well over the crossbar.

Venezuela is still alive, less than 10 minutes from the end of the match.

More variants and Captain Round

With 15 minutes left in the match, the Albiceleste exhausted their substitutions to add Luciano Gondou and Francisco Gonzalez for Santiago Castro and Thiago Almada.

Upon leaving, the captain of Argentina and scorer of the second goal for the Argentine National Team, Almada, handed the ribbon to Federico Redondo.

The young midfielder is highly valued by his teammates and in the minutes he had to enter, since he is not part of the starting team, he always performed very well.

Another change in Argentina

20 minutes into the second half, and with the team ahead on the scoreboard after Thiago Almada made it 2 to 1, Mascherano moved the bench again.

On this occasion, Federico Redondo entered for Santiago Castro, to plant a double five with Equi Fernández, to try to defend and maintain the advantage of the Argentine team.

Argentina goal

In a dizzying second half, Argentina took advantage with a goal from Thiago Almada after a great play by Baltasar Rodríguez, Racing’s gem.

The second half began

A few minutes into the second half, Argentina’s coach, Javier Mascherano, made two changes to the team: Baltasar Rodriguez and Aaron Quirós for Juan Sforza and Claudio Echeverri.

For now, the match maintains parity without any problems. The highlight of the first minutes of the second half was a right hand from Pablo Solari that Samuel Rodriguez contained without problem.

20:53

05/02/2024

One hour ago

The first half between Argentina and Venezuela ended

Argentina tied with Venezuela 1 to 1 with goals from Carlos Vivas – against – and David Martínez.

20:47

05/02/2024

2 hours ago

20:39

05/02/2024

2 hours ago

Argentina draws with an unusual goal

At the same time that Venezuela was positioned better on the field and Argentina was half groggy after the goal, the National Team tied. It was in the 39th minute, when a cross from almost half the field seemed to bring no danger to the Venezuelan goalkeeper, however – and in an unusual way – his captain Carlos Vivas wanted to reject it with the misfortune that his header ended up with the ball inside. of his bow.

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20:14

05/02/2024

2 hours ago

Venezuela goal

In what was the first arrival of Venezuela, after a clear dominance of Argentina, a great individual play by David Martínez that reached the area and in what seemed to be a cross, the Argentine goalkeeper deflected the ball with the misfortune that It went inside the arch.

20:08

05/02/2024

2 hours ago

Triumph of Paraguay

In the preview of the Argentina-Venezuela match, Paraguay surprised at the beginning of the final home run of the Pre-Olympic towards Paris and beat Brazil by the minimum with a goal from Fabrizio Peralta.

20:00

05/02/2024

2 hours ago

The match started

With the serve of Santiago Castro, Argentina began the match for the second phase of the Pre-Olympic.

2024-02-06 01:03:39
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