Historic win! Barcelona SC beat Liga de Quito 1-0 and ended with the undefeated albo at the Rodrigo Paz Delgado stadium | National Championship | Sports

It was 26 years that Barcelona Sporting Club waited for a victory at the Rodrigo Paz stadium over Liga de Quito. With the annotation of the Argentine Christian Marmoset Ortiz put an end to the undefeated whites in his fort, which opened its doors on March 6, 1997.

Although he had made the Olympic return for the first time in the history of this scenario with the conquest of the national championship title in 2020, it had not been due to a victory in regulation time, but after winning the penalty shootout 1-3 . After 55 duels in this scenario, the canaries won.

Not only Ortiz was the figure for his annotation: defenders Luca Sosa, Paco Rodríguez, Leonai Souza and even attacker Francisco Fydriszewski also contributed with their interventions, who left his duties as a gunner to reject the powerful shots from the lilies on set pieces .

Added to this is the morbidity that it was a rough duel due to the strong brand, the claim of the U fans and the constant arrests due to the claims of the personnel of both teams who were on the bench.

The yellows and albos did not come out to speculate. The capital’s team gave the first warning when left-back Leonel Quiñónez launched a cross for their forwards, but goalkeeper Javier Burrai excelled with a stretch to keep the ball.

With the balance tipped for the whites, the yellows were more cautious and tried to cut the combinations of Alexander Alvarado, Renato Ibarra and the Argentine Ezequiel Piovi.

From minute 15 the superiority of Quito was marked. Alvarado launched a cross from the left, Ibarra received it and enabled the gaucho Lisandro Alzugaray, who finished off wide.

This was just a warning. From a free kick, Haitian defender Ricardo Adé hit a header that miraculously was parried by Albiceleste striker Francisco Fydriszewski with a slam-bump in the 16th minute.

And after 20 minutes, Brazilian midfielder Leonai Souza lost the ball and a counterattack was set up for Liga that attacker José ended up finishing off. Tin Angulo and beating goalkeeper Burrai, but everything was canceled due to an offside by Alzugaray, which was detected by the linesman and confirmed by the VAR.

While the yellows came dangerously over the portico of Alexander Domínguez with a lukewarm shot from the Argentine-Ecuadorian hitch Damián Something Diaz (28 minutes).

After this, the university students kept stepping on the accelerator and, after 36 min, at Tin Angulo received a clearance and finished off without force. And as the soccer phrase says: “He who doesn’t do them sees them do them.”

The bullfighter team opened the scoring from a corner charge. Marmoset Ortiz hit the ball from the left side with great effect; and, in his eagerness to reject the ball, the Tin Angulo ended up putting the round into his goal (45+2 min). A bucket of ice water for the swollen lily.

For the second half, desperation began to take hold of the Liguistas, because all attempts to subdue the yellows, as in the previous phase, were useless. Not even in the free throws that he took and was able to tie with the headers of the Argentine defender Facundo Rodríguez and the striker Tin Angulo.

The Barcelona players were smart: they sent the rhythm of the match to a halt with a slow game, counting the triangulations in the center of the field and overflows on the sides.

The last ten minutes of the duel were dramatic. The League had several opportunities to equalize the score with overflows from the right side, with the projections of Ibarra and José Corn Quintero, who launched some crosses, but were not taken advantage of by their forwards.

At 90+3 min the match was stopped, because the university fans climbed onto the metal mesh of the town that was behind the Burrai goal. After several requests from goalkeeper Adrián Gabbarini and captain Ezequiel Piovi, they began to go down (90+11 min).

Near the end, when the yellow bench asked for the final whistle, he took a corner kick that was finished off point-blank by striker Walter Chalá and, with a feline reaction, goalkeeper Burrai saved the ball (120 min). (D)