Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Olimpia is with a broken compass and Marathon has presented its candidacy for the title of the Apertura 2020/2021 Tournament. El León won 1-0 at the National Stadium this Sunday, but Sampedranos prevailed on the aggregate dashboard (3-2) in the group final and, becoming the leader of the tours, made sure they would play the final.
In the first round, the Green Monster won 3-1 over Yankel Rosenthal.
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Following the starting team, he highlighted the absence of a born striker, Héctor Vargas caught leaving Bruno Volpi and Ryduan Palermo on the bench, while Marlon “Machuca” Ramírez and Edwin Solani Solano were alert in front of the opening whistle .
As expected, Leo attacked quickly. And he found a well-ordered team from San Pedro playing with the rival’s despair.
However, the first scoring opportunity presented itself to the visit. After the ball was lifted in from the left, Luis Vega was on his own in the home side’s penalty area and should have scored after 9 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration.
The whites continued to look for damage on the sides, and José Mario Pinto appeared finishing, goalkeeper Denovan Torres returned and Jerry Bengtson almost shot completely.
Marathón remained true to his style. And he had better control of the ball with the passing of the minutes, Leo began to despair even more for the absence of arrivals in the rival area.
At the age of 36, after the arrival of Maylor Núñez and a series of recoveries, the central Mathías Techera took the ball out of his area.
At the end of the first part, everything improved. Maylor came back, passed and Pinto hung on before finishing directly, but Denovan Torres stretched completely and avoided the celebration. Then Selvin el Pibe Guevara almost defeated Edrick Menjívar with a powerful shot that León’s goalkeeper controlled in two innings.
THE SECOND TIME
Olympia looked different, the road was not clear to them before the defensive order of the pursuer.
Carlos Pineda made a superb strike after 53 minutes with a shot straight in front of the goal after a long ball through the middle, but one of the visitors’ defenders got a foot in at the last second and warded it off for a corner.
Denovan Torres gave a show in goal, covering the auctions of Alejandro Reyes and Yustin Arboleda.
Jerry Bengtson hit the post on the bar and Techera took the ball on time when Eddie Hernández came on for the goal.
Already during the injury, Reyes executed a free kick, no one touched the ball and went to the nets, 1-0 did not match León, who had to win by two goals difference to force penalties and three scores difference to win the group final.
The referee whistles for a foul Óscar Moncaca is guilty of misconduct.
The semifinals will start this Wednesday and if Marathon wins the league final, they will be crowned champions. Otherwise, you will have to play the final with Motagua, Olimpia or Vida.
-DATA SHEET:
Olympics: Edrick Menjívar, Maylor Núñez (Jorge Álvarez, min.55), Elvin Casildo (German Mejía, min.59), Johnny Leverón, Samuel Córdova, José Mario Pinto, Deiby Flores, Carlos Pineda (José Alejandro Reyes, min.55), Edwin Rodríguez, Jerry Bengtson (Yustin Arboleda, min.71) and Eddie Hernández.
Trainer: Pedro Troglio (ARG).
MARATHON: Denovan Torres, John Paul Suazo, Mathías Techera, Bryan Johnson, Luis Vega, Kervin Arriaga, Luis Garrido, Allan Banegas, Marlon Ramírez (Cristian Moreira, min.77), Edwin Solani Solano (Carlos Perdomo, min.85) and Selvin Guevara (Axel Motiño, min.59 – Ryduan Palermo, min.85).
Trainer: Héctor Vargas (ARG).
REFEREE: Oscar Moncada.