Chilean press speaks of ‘nightmare’, ‘tragedy’, ‘horror movie’ due to the hard blow that Ecuador inflicted on La Roja

For the Chilean sports press, the defeat suffered this Tuesday against Ecuador occurred in “a strange game from start to finish.” The difficulty of assimilating the triumph of La Tri, which has a historical category because it is the first to be achieved on a visit in 56 years of elimination confrontations between the two countries is reflected in what the main newspapers of Santiago publish in their digital editions. They speak of “nightmare”, tragedy “,” horror movie “to the hard blow that the National Team dealt Chile and its so-called Golden Generation on the fourteenth date of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

‘Chile lived a fatal night in San Carlos, lost for the first time at home to Ecuador in Qualifying and the World Cup is moving away again,’ the newspaper headlined. The Mercury in its online edition to refer to the victory of the National Team this Tuesday, for the fourteenth date of the 2022 World Cup qualifier.

The newspaper added that “in San Carlos de Apoquindo everything happened to the Lasarte team. Expulsion of Arturo Vidal, injuries to Eugenio Mena, Alexis Sánchez and Francisco Sierralta who ended up playing as ‘9’ because there were no more changes. But the worst, the result. The national squad fell 2-0 to Ecuador in the team’s first loss at home to La Tri in the history of qualifying.

For Third, what happened to the squad led by Martín Lasarte seemed like a “horror movie”. In a note entitled ‘Chile suffers an apocalypse in San Carlos’ the Santiago newspaper described what happened before the Tricolor: “A dark force. Black magic. Simple bad luck. Explanations are sought for a gloomy night in San Carlos de Apoquindo. What did the Chilean team do to the world to deserve so much cruelty in 90 minutes? If Estupiñán’s goal at nine minutes was bad, Vidal’s expulsion at 13 was already a tragedy. Nothing could be worse in such an important qualifying match. But then came Mena and Alexis’ injuries! It cannot be, fate was primed. A nightmare. A key clash, against a direct rival in the race to go to Qatar 2022, without Sánchez, the King Arthur and Charles Aránguiz. The script for a horror movie ”.

‘Fierce kick’

In your header The fourth He put: ‘Painful defeat: La Roja falls to Ecuador and questions their trip to Qatar 2022 ′. This is part of what that Chilean newspaper published about the Araucanian defeat with goals from Pervis Estupiñán and Moisés Caicedo: “La Roja couldn’t against Ecuador. With a controversial first half, the team led by Gustavo Alfaro started with an advantage over the Chilean team after scoring the first goal at 9 minutes with a shot from Pervis Estupiñán. Minutes later, Chile experienced a tense moment after the King Arturo Vidal left the court at 13 minutes after receiving a direct red card after a fierce kick that hit the Ecuadorian Félix Torres in the face ”.

Meter He said: “Chile stumbles against Ecuador in a match where nothing came out for the Red” in “a strange match from beginning to end”. He also referred to the “Flying kick” by Arturo Vidal that cost him the red card. When Ecuador already beat Chile 1-0 with a goal from Pervis Estupiñán, at minute 12 the Rey Arturo Vidal made a huge mistake that cost him a direct red card. A tremendous ‘plate’ on the face of the Ecuadorian defender Félix Torres made the Red stay with 10 players at the beginning of the first half “. (D)