This Wednesday, Vélez won the victory that had been denied him so much in the Copa Libertadores and got fully into the fight for second place in Group C. Julio Vaccari’s team, with many young people, won 3-2 against Nacional in Montevideo in a great game changing and was third in his area in the absence of a date.
With 5 points and a goal difference of -3, Fortín is behind the already qualified Estudiantes de Ricardo Zielinski (13) and Bragantino from Brazil (5 and -1), and ahead of Nacional (4 and -3). ). On the last date, next Tuesday from 7:15 p.m., Vélez will be home to Estudiantes while the Montevideo team will receive the Brazilians.
In the Gran Parque Central, the story began favorably for the locals, with a goal from the ex-Unión midfielder, Central and Vélez -precisely- Diego Zabala at 21 minutes. But the cast of Vaccari, who took over as interim at the beginning of April in place of Mauricio Pellegrino, turned it around with a great goal from Lucas Janson at the end of the first half and a header from Uruguayan Matías De los Santos in the second half.
But on closing, with Nacional focused on attack, the kid Osorio -recently admitted- was guilty of innocence and jumped to head with his arms out of place: the ball hit him in the hand inside the area and a penalty for the Uruguayans. The veteran Puma Gigliotti (34 years old) exchanged it for the 2-2 and Vélez missed two key points.
As the draw served neither, the six minutes of stoppage time became all or nothing. The thing could have been tragic for Fortín, when at 91 Zabala took out a bombshell that surprised Hoyos, Gigliotti took the rebound and left the goalkeeper on the way, but his shot ran into a heroic arrival from center-back Valentín Gómez (18 years) on the line. On the next play, it was the goalkeeper who rescued his team against the wise Gigliotti, who sinned enough to try to bite him one-on-one.
As soon as Vélez was able to take the ball, Osorio (19 years old) took revenge for his previous mistake and took a nice cross to take the defense of Nacional badly and find the entrance of captain Máximo Perrone (19 years old), who headed him allowed Vélez to take everything from Montevideo.