Catholic University comes out of La Paz with the rule of ’10 minutes’

With scores in the first minutes and a back and forth on the endgame, Universidad Católica managed to equalize 1-1 against Bolívar in La Paza result that does not reflect the scoring opportunities generated by the teams, but that leave peace of mind camarattas to define the series in the round.

the goals They arrived in stock Francisco da Costa (minute 8) for the Bolivians and with Ishmael Diaz (11 minutes) for visitors.

To tell of DT Miguel Rondelli, Católica applied the ten minute rule to win a valuable tie, against a Bolívar “with a lot of cup history”.

“We have a rule called ‘the ten minutes’. The first ten minutes of a game are fundamental, as well as the ten minutes after a goal, whether for or against, are extremely important. And I think we had to suffer an early goal; but, before those ten minutes that we said had passed, we managed to tie and we settled on the field”, Rondelli said at the press conference after the tie at the Hernando Siles stadium.

the strategist recognized that his team has “things to improve”but highlighted: “We played a good game in general terms. We worked well together, we were a short and supportive team. We were not fine in the definition, nor was Bolívar. We played when we had to play, we fought when we had to fight and we defended well”.

The Argentine remained calm with the performance of his players and advanced: “The series is open The classification is up to us. We came to achieve a result that will guide us in the series And we got it,” he said.

The rematch will be played on Wednesday, March 2 at the Atahualpa stadium (5:15 p.m.)where the qualifier for phase 3 of the Cup will be defined, with series whose winners will complete the group phase, while the losers will go to the South American Cup. (D)