The Halcón de Varela could not overcome the 0-3 in the first leg in Ecuador, but after another great campaign they say goodbye to the competition with their heads held high.
Defense and Justice have little, very little to blame themselves for. Perhaps the only one could be the end of the match in Quito, in which he looked for a discount that did not come and got the lapidary goal from Ezequiel Piovi, so that the result of the first leg became a 0-3. that was too hard to overcome in Lanús. And Liga de Quito returns to an international final with order after more than ten years.
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With no time to lose, Halcón was looking for the goal that would put them in the match and was very close to achieving it through Togni, although Albo also squandered an incredible counter-attack that could have ended the story midway through the first half .
Already in the second half, Defensa burned the ships, but lacked ideas to reach Alexander Domínguez clearly and only complicated it with a few shots from far. The end was with a standing ovation for Julio Vaccari’s modest team, which did not have several figures, but still carried out a huge international campaign.
Minute by minute of Defensa y Justicia – Liga de Quito, for the return of the semi-finals of the Copa Sudamericana 2023
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