The Ecuadorian Dolphin, with a goal from Agustín Ale in the 82nd minute, beat Olimpia 0-1 in Asunción this Tuesday and qualified for the last 16 of the Copa Libertadores thanks also to the help of Santos, who at the At the same time, they defeated Argentine Defense and Justice 2-1.
An Olimpia who was discharged from the Libertadores and also will not contest the next South American, a prize that was held by Defense and Justice, the third in the group.
OLimpia was the bottom of Group H, which Santos led with sufficiency, with 13 points, followed by Delfín with 7, Defense and Justice, with 6, and the Dean with 5.
It could not be for an Olimpia who played on the attack from minute one and created dangerous chances that should have put him ahead of the scoreboard from that period.
The most important thing was missing, defining that power in a goal, with an attacking pair in which veteran Roque Santa Cruz and Derlis González failed to beat the goalkeeper Máximo Banguera.
Yes, Jorge Recalde did, in the 23rd minute, from outside the area and in a chopped ball that went through Banguera's goal, but was annulled for offside by the Dean.
It was the clearest goal play by an Olimpia that in the second half came out to define but that sinned from the same lack of cold blood from the previous stage.
Coach Daniel Garnero chose to take Alejandro Silva out looking for Isidro Pitta's sense of goal, who has not yet found the lethal point in Olimpia that he showed off last season at Sportivo Luqueño.
Olimpia was also detonating a nervousness accentuated by the result in Brazil, which benefited Cetáceo.
Faced with what a Dolphin was imposing itself that, without creating goal joints, was winning the psychological war and containing the push of the locals.
And that culminated in Ale's header, raising the Ecuadorians to the eighth after having started the phase as the weakest of the group.
0. Olimpia: Alfredo Aguilar; Iván Torres (m.74: Jorge Arias), Diego Polenta, Antolín Alcaraz and Sergio Otálvaro; Jorge Recalde, Richard Ortiz, Rodrigo Rojas (m.63: Luis de la Cruz) and Alejandro Silva (m.63: Isidro Pitta); Roque Santa Cruz and Derlis González (m.69: Néstor Camacho).
Coach: Daniel Garnero
1. Dolphin: Máximo Banguera; Jonathan González, Agustín Ale, Luis Cangá (d.64: Carlos Rodríguez) and Geovanni Nazareno (d.89: David Noboa); Joao Ortiz, Charles Vélez, Óscar Benítez (d.71: Juan Rojas) and Janner Corozo; José Valencia (d. 89: Roberto Luzurraga) and Carlos Garcés.
Goals: m.77: Alejandro Ale.
Referee: Uruguayan Gustavo Tejera admonished Óscar Benítez, Iván Torres, Luis Cangá, Alfredo Aguilar and Diego Polenta.
Incidents: match of the last day of Group G of the Copa Libertadores played without an audience at the Manuel Ferreira stadium, in Asunción.