(EFE) – Santos won those matches 3-0 against Boca Juniors in the second leg of the CONMEBOL Libertadores semifinals and in the complex towards the final that will be played on January 30 in Rio de Janeiro with the Brazilian Palmeiras. , just one day before being eliminated in River Plate.
Diego Pituca, the Venezuelan Yéferson Soteldo and Lucas Braga take the victory.
El Santos llega a su quinta final del torneo que conquistó en 1962, 1963 y 2011.
In the first of the match, in the first minute, Santos had its first punishment with a backhand from the striker Marinho that was found on the vertical of the portico defended by Esteban Andrada and the same attacker worried 3 minutes later.
Diego Pituca, en una combinación con Soteldo, aprovechó a los quince minutos una ventaja concedida por el árbitro colombiano Wilmar Roldán tras una mano en el área del defensa visitante Lisandro López.
Aún con la ventaja, el Santos no desaceleró y Soteldo, Kaio Jorge, Lucas Veríssimo y Pará buscaron aumentar el marcador para los dueños de casa, pero los visitantes, más con garra que con técnica, salieron también por el empate y con el experimentado Carlos Tévez, Franco Soldano y el colombiano Sebastián Villa.
Before the end of the first phase, after a favorable period for Boca, Santos had even more opportunities to reinforce with Marinho, Kaio Jorge, Lucas Braga and, recently, Soteldo.
At the moment, the visiting coach Miguel Ángel Russo filmed some cards, but Cuca’s men went all out, first with the incisive Marinho and then, in the 48th minute, with Soteldo, who recovered the ball and with impeccable definition pushed the 2- 0 partial. .
When Boca began to take advantage of the second goal on the counterattack, Santos scored the third in five minutes with Lucas Braga, in a previous attack by Marinho, the top scorer in the Brazilian League.
At 3-0, still with enough time left in one game, Boca wanted to make a splash, if they were still playing with the participation of Tévez and Villa.
Sin embargo, la oportunidad más clara en el segundo tiempo, después de los goles, fue para Marinho a los 73 minutos. El recién ingresado Madson y Kaio Jorge, antes del final, también estuvieron a punto de marcar el cuarto.