O’Higgins toma ventaja 1-0 ante Tolima en 3ra fase preliminar de Copa Libertadores – Chicago Tribune

By JOSÉ MANUEL VALLADARES

BOGOTÁ (AP) – Meanwhile, Francisco González, at the end of the first period, allowed O’Higgins to surpass the best 1-0 at Deportes Tolima in the game of the year of the third preliminary phase of the Copa Libertadores.

The Chilean team joined the series with a disparo from González inside the area, in front of a Colombian group that played with less than 37 minutes by the expulsion of Kelvin Flórez.

O’Higgins also finished with 10 players on Felipe Ogaz’s red card at 81.

In another match of the day, Sporting Cristal won at home 1-0 against Carabobo.

The other teams competing in this round will ensure you have less participation in the Copa Sudamericana if they cannot advance to the Libertadores group stage. Next week, you will discover the four classified in the next step.

This youngster will take the lead in phase 3 with the clash between the debutante Juventud de Las Piedras and Independiente Medellín.

The sorting of the group stage will be carried out on March 19. The calendar of your fechas will begin the week between April 7 and 9. It will be extended until the last week of May.

The 2026 Copa Libertadores final is scheduled for November 28 in Montevideo.

At the El Teniente stadium in Rancagua, O’Higgins was able to find himself with González’s ball while playing the octavo minute of extra time in the first game.

At the extreme, O’Higgins, who was also marked in the earlier phase of the trio as the local front of Bahía, controlled the center of Luis Pavez and defined before the archer Neto Volpi.

González’s disparity was the unique shot from the arc of the soldiers of the initial period.

During a first accident, Tolima’s driver Edwar López played the song for an injury in five minutes.

Kelvin Flórez, who replaced López, was sent off by a careless foul against Alan Robledo in the fight for a split ball.

Robledo left the song in camilla by the herida on the head that produced the offense and was replaced by Nicolás Garrido.

Thanks to his numerical superiority, O’Higgins controlled the complementary actions and all his biggest chances in the pies of Bryan Rabello and Juan Leiva.

In the new minutes of the final, Ogaz received the second compensation for a foul against Jersson González in a promising attack.

Tolima, who had just launched into the penalty path of Deportivo Táchira, left his lines in the final tramo, but did not worry the gate defended by Omar Carabalí.

In Valencia, Sporting Cristal won with a 1-0 trio against Carabobo.

The Peruvian four, which occurred in the second stage on May 2, was designated as the only compromise in 14 minutes with a penalty converted by Yoshimar Yotún.

On the 23rd, the visitors had the opportunity to expand the result with a tanto from Felipe Vizeu, but they were invalidated after the review of the video refereeing by a previous hand from Cristiano da Silva.

Carabobo dominated the tramite in the second time, but could not beat the archer Diego Enríquez, who finished with five attacks.

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