Ñublense lost a new opportunity to leave the difficult places at the bottom of the table after losing against Universidad Católica by 2 goals to 1, becoming even more complicated in the last places after the triumph of Copiapó, which also has one less game to play against Colo Colo.
For García, it was important to redeem points against a direct rival like the Crusaders, who, led by Nicolás Nuñez, came from not knowing any victories 6 dates ago and in addition to being eliminated from the Copa Chile at the hands of his classic rival, Colo Colo. However, the “Red” ended up falling due to 2 defensive misunderstandings that again appeared to end up condemning the Ñublensinos, who also failed to react in the second half, demonstrating that the physique continues to be due despite the 10-day break they had, where they focused on correcting details to maintain the good game during the entire match, but once again, it could not be achieved.
In the first half there was a lot of controversy, which was once again soiled by the bad refereeing of Diego Flores.
Católica quickly took the lead at 6′ on the scoreboard, against a Ñublense who respected him too much in the first minutes. Free kick executed by Rovira and Zampedri appears alone in the area to head and score the first. In the mark they failed Rivera who released the striker and Caroca who stayed hooked to enable the Argentine attacker.
Then it was time for the expulsions. First, it was Kagelmacher, who received a double yellow card after hitting Ismael Sosa hard. The expulsion of the “crusaders” came at the best moment of “Red”, who reacted after the goal for tickets in the first half.
This did not last long. The saddest play of the game would come. Minute 34′ and Rebolledo arrives late and hits Mena’s tibia, causing a clear fracture on the left side, in a play that was unintentional by “Catuto”, who after seeing the red card, left in tears for injuring in a serious way to a professional colleague, who was also nominated for the next process of the duels of the Chilean National Team.
Already in the second half, history would not change and what happened in the first half would be repeated. Thus came the minute 53′, when another defensive error, this time by the Argentinean Zalazar, allowed Zampedri to pivot, leaving only the young Ortiz who scored the second goal for Nicolás Núñez’s squad. Despite the error, the move had to be annulled by a clear hand from Montes.
From then on, Ñublense without clear offensive ideas tried to fight constantly in search of the goal, which eluded him until the final minutes.
First, after a long pause due to the flares that fell onto the field of play from the crossed bar that stopped the match for 10 minutes.
After this, when football resumed, minute 116 came when a handball by Saavedra in the area was charged as a penalty, which Patricio Rubio converted into a goal, scoring his ninth goal in the National Championship.
After this, the referee made another mistake, by not adding more time to play due to the loss in the penalty charge.
With this result, Ñublense remains 13th with 24 units, however, now it has only 3 points more than Curicó and Copiapó and 5 more than Magallanes, which is bottom.
“It was a vital match for us, we wanted to win, we had said it during the week, we needed it emotionally, but we had peace of mind, we needed time for the results to be given,” declared the coach of the “crusaders”, Nicolás Núñez.
Now the “red devils” must turn the page and prepare for the duel against Everton next Sunday at 8:00 p.m., which will be played at the Nelson Oyarzún stadium
