Marathon managed to tie a game where to show some variants against the Portland Timbers in the first leg of the round of 16 of the CONCACAF Champions and leaves a fair 2-2, though he deserved a little more, if not for the fact that the American goalkeeper covered two clearances.
Héctor Vargas had to manage to keep two key players injured; Carlo Costly and Luis Garrido, also not available in Cuban Yaudel Lahera. Were it not for an injury to goalkeeper Denovan Torres who scored an own goal, the story would have been different.
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The tie now forces the verdolaga box to go die to make a feat in the forests of Oregon. There he has to go for a win or a draw with goals, bigger than the one achieved this Wednesday, because otherwise he leaves him on the sidelines of the elite tournament in the region.
Let’s go to the party. Portland started unstoppable as expected, it was better team, better planter and with better arguments, but the verdolagas were able to solve. Denovan Torres made a monumental cover in a hand-to-hand that was great. He took the goal from Williamson who grabbed him by the cannon and responded with height.
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The defense knew he couldn’t loosen up; Vargas put a line of three that at the beginning did not know how to stop the attacks: Techera, Carlos Garci’a and Carlos Perdomo, in the end the party forced the technician to happen to line of four to look for depth, but in this transition came the first goal of the game that opened the can at the Olympics.
The Chilean striker Felipe Mora had a clear, 34 in the first half they let him receive a cross from the right, accommodated it with pleasure and finished cross to beat Denovan Torres who touched it but could not do anything. The match from now on woke up the Monster that at home was not going to be easy prey.
But the green ones four minutes later took advantage of a fast exit Arriaga that gave a long pass him to Emilio, this one abrió it to the left so that Edwin Solani entered by the side and removing a poisonous center, appeared sweeping in center the starting forward Bryan Castle to tie the game. The Monster also had his weapons.
Thus ended the first half. Héctor Vargas coolly slotted it home for a 1 – 0 lead. Wilmer Crisanto y Cristian Cálix was the scorer. He could not do it in elaborate plays because Kervin Arriaga and Emilio Izaguirre who played restraint slowed everything down. They had to look for other arguments like the stopped ball.
It was in one of these unfortunate actions that the Argentine Diego Valeri, flying the American club masterfully hit a free kick, the ball crashed vertically in the rebound gave the forearm to Marathon goalkeeper Denovan Torres, and it was the second goal of the MLS. Vargas far from complaining, motivated his team to go to the front.
Arriaga tried a through ball, but Kevin Hoyos was as fast as a snake, grabbing the ball from under his nose. , entered the area, cut a rival and left-handed won the pull of goalkeeper Clark.
This goal meant a draw for the Catrachos. They were about to make the third. Defender Mathías Techera unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors’ keeper did well to tip wide.
Kervin Arriaga again insisted, stole a ball and made a spectacular run, enabled Machuca Ramírez to go alone, but instead of looking for a partner, he tried to make a cut and lost the ball. The Timbers led the game to save the ball and thus ended the match. Now everything is left for the return to Oregon where only a miracle can get in the way of the strong Savarese team that played their first official game of the season.