Heart to win! Alianza Lima de Peru eliminated Boca Juniors from Argentina by defeating him in a penalty shootout 4-5, a result that allowed him to qualify in the very stadium «La Bombonera de Buenos Aires to phase 3 of the Copa Libertadores de América.
Alianza Lima achieved an achievement that had not obtained before any Peruvian team in the Libertadores, get the favorite Boca in a copera tie.
The match in regulatory time ended with the victory of the “Xeneize” 2-1 with the goals of Miguel Trauco, against his fence, and Kevin Zenón de Cabeza, while the experienced striker Hernán Barco converted for the visiting blue and white.
After the 1-0 of Alianza Lima at the Alejandro Villanueva stadium in the Peruvian capital, in the first leg, the series was 2-2 in the mouth, and in the penalties, after nine converted, the Bolivian goalkeeper Guillermo Viscarra became a hero of the Inca team after containing the auke of Alan Velasco.
In the first stage, Boca pushed by his audience was determined to achieve the tie in the series with the Peruvian lane Luis Advíncula on the right and the Uruguayan Marcelo Saracchi on the left to supply the two strikers centers: Miguel Ángel Merentiel and Edinson Cavani.
Precisely in the 6th minute a climbing of Saracchi on the left ended with a center that crossed the entire area and before the arrival of Merentiel and in the attempt to take out the Trauco ball he took it ahead to the network leaving Viscarra reaction without reaction.
From that moment on and promoted by his audience, Boca went in search of taking the advantage in the series for the first time, but the cast “blue and white” settled better in defense with the firmness of Carlos “León” Zambrano and Renzo Garcés in the rear.
Little by little Alliance was encouraged to leave the backlash in search of the speed of Kevin Quevedo and Ecuadorian Erick Castillo.
And precisely in the 19th minute, Quevedo forced a foul and that free kick on the right of the attack a precision executed by the Uruguayan steering wheel Pablo Ceppelini ended in a lethal header of the Peruvian nationalized Argentine “the pirate” ships to stamp the equality on the marker of the night in La Bombonera.
This goal allowed the Alianza Lima, directed by the Coach Gaucho Néstor Gorosito, to take the advantage in the series and in the 30th minute he was able to liquidate him with a hand in hand in Castillo speed that goalkeeper Agustín Marchesín managed to crown with a Salvador swipe.
From that point, Boca was without football reactions to convert again and Alliance felt more comfortable with the process of the party and that, before the end he had to make the entrance of Fernando Gaibor by Ceppelini due to injury.
At the beginning of the complement, the Uruguayan ram Edinson Cavani was from the right to the center of the area and took a shot that managed to clear Garcés to the corner kick.
And in the 51st minute a good combination of Boca ended with a Zenon shot that demanded the stellar appearance of the Viscarra goalkeeper to push the ball again to the corner.
Boca continued pushing and when the clock marked the 58th minute, a corner kick found a red -headed blow that Viscarra managed to divert the crossbar but the rebound was left to Zeno to push the Network also of Testa.
With the advantage in the scoreboard three minutes later a trifulca was generated between the two teams for a tough Saracchi entry that resulted in two gorious pipo piping and four yellow assistants, two per side.
And then Zenón took out a shot that Viscarra held in 68 and two minutes later Cavani and Ander Herrera demanded by duplicate to Bolivian goal.
On the end of the Use a perfect header center by Milton Giménez that deviated visar over the crossbar and in the last play a center left Cavani alone for the arch and the “charrúa” became entangled without being able to define (miracle for alliance!).
After this action, the technical questioned Fernando Gago changed his goalkeeper before the penalties with the entry of Leandro Brey by Marchesín.
However, the modification did not take effect because Alianza Lima turned the five shots and Boca did the same four times until a giant Guillermo Viscarra contained the auction to Velasco for the delirium of the blue and white in the Bombonera, in Peru and throughout the planet football.
𝒀 𝒔𝒊, 𝑷𝒊𝒑𝒐, 𝒇𝒖𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒐 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒊. #Conaliazas always #Reafirmatulealtad pic.twitter.com/gkmyzhj9m
– Club Alianza Lima (@clubaloForofal) February 26, 2025
It should be noted that after expectorate Boca Jrs. Of the Libertadores, in phase 3 Alianza Lima will be measured with Sports Iquique de Chile set that, as a visitor in Bogotá, eliminated the Independent Santa Fe de Colombia by penalties.
🥰⭐⚽ scorer, idol and reference: the emotion of @Hernanbarcos After classification of @Clubaloofalial.
🏆 Conmebol #Libertadores | #Gloriaeterna pic.twitter.com/ydk0gzqeuj
– Conmebol Libertadores (@Libertadores) February 26, 2025
Thus they aligned
– Boca Juniors 2 (4): Agustín Marchesin (Leandro Frey, 98 ′); Luis Advíncula, Rodrigo Battaglia, Marcos Rojo, Marcelo Saracchi (Lautaro Blanco, 74 ′); Ander Herrera (Williams Alarcón, 74 ′), Milton Delgado, Kevin Zenón; Carlos Palacios (Alan Velasco, 77 ′); Miguel Merentiel (Milton Giménez, 77 ′), Edinson Cavani.
– DT: Fernando Gago.
– Alianza Lima 1 (5): Guillermo Viscarra; Guillermo Enrique, Carlos Zambrano, Renzo Garcés, Miguel Trauco; Pablo Lavandeira, Erick Noriega, Pablo Ceppelini (Fernando Gaibor, 34 ′), Kevin Quevedo; Erick Castillo, Hernán Barco (Paolo Guerrero, 77 ′).
– DT: Néstor Gorosito.
– Goals: 1-0 Trauco 6 ′ (against), 1-1 ships 19 ′, Zenón 58 ′.
– Definition by penalty: By mouth they turned red, Cavani, Alarcón, Giménez; while Viscarra covered the shot to Velasco. By Alianza Lima they scored Guerrero, Gaibor, Trauco, Noriega and Lavandeira.
– Referee: Chilean Piero Maza admonished Merentiel, Saracchi, Giménez, Noriega, Gorosito, Gaibor, Garcés, Lavandeira and Guerrero.
– Incidents: Latch back for phase 2 of the Copa Libertadores played at the Open Stadium J. Armando «La Bombonera», of Buenos Aires, before 54 thousand spectators.
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