translated from Spanish: With one less man Colo Colo fell to O’Higgins at the Monumental Stadium

Colo Colo suffered on Sunday his first defeat in the 2021 National Championship by falling as a 1–2 home team to O’Higgins, in a match played at the Monumental Stadium and valid for the third date. With this result in Macul, the ‘popular’ cast lost a good option to be at the front of the table alongside Unión La Calera and Audax Italiano. He stayed in seventh place with four units. Meanwhile, the Rancagueinos celebrated for the first time in the tournament and jumped to fourth place in the standings with five points. The duel in Pedrero began with emotion and important indicences. In the first place, at 3 minutes, referee Rodrigo Carvajal scored after check-up in the penalty VAR in favor of the visitor by hand in the Leonardo Gil area.The Tomás Alarcón steering wheel stopped from the 12 steps and did not fail at 6′ with a powerful finish to the right of the goalscorer Bryan Cortes, who threw himself to the other side. The ‘Cacique’ reacted after the opening of the ‘celestes’ account and reached parity in the 16th minute. Ball to the area of Martín Rodríguez, a couple of rebounds and Marcos Bolados headed nodded over goalkeeper Augusto Batalla.At 25′ came a move that would end up marking the brega process. Albo defender Matías Zaldivia entered very hard with the iron to Matías Cahais, so he immediately saw the red card. With one less man in the field, Gustavo Quinteros’ team sheltered and gave the prominence to the ‘Capo de Provincia’, who could not find a way to reach Cortés’s arch with real danger.Already in the complement, O’Higgins grew in performance, began to move more clearly the spherical and spaces were generated. The slope was held by the Argentine Marcelo Larrondo at 65 minutes, but he missed incredibly in the heart of the area by splicing a center to the right of Francisco Arancibia.Finally, at 71′, a new goal would arrive and it would fall into the hands of the outsider, shortly after Marcos Bolados wasted a good option for Colo Colo. Facundo Castro drew from half distance a powerful and low forehand that surprised Brayan Cortés.Although Quinteros tried to strengthen his offensive with Pablo Solari, Juan Carlos Gaete, Ignacio Jara and Luciano Arriagada, the albos did not arrive more in real danger and were far from unsettling Augusto Batalla.For the fourth day of the tournament, the ‘Cacique’ will visit on Sunday, April 18, Everton , while O’Higgins will receive Sports La Serena on Saturday 17…..

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