Colón de Santa Fe beat Paraguay’s Olimpia 2-1 on Wednesday at the Brigadier Estanislao López stadium and sealed their qualification for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores.
Sabalero, who started better than his rival, suffered a setback after 7 minutes due to a goal by Hugo Quintana, but after going in search of a tie throughout the initial stage, he achieved it at 41 from a goal by Federico Lértora , the great hero of the Santa Fe night.
Already in the second part of an even two-way duel, the midfielder appeared again, this time with a header, to materialize the comeback and allow Julio César Falcioni’s team to get among the 16 best teams in the Libertadores.
With this result, Colón climbed to the top of his group with 10 points, in the absence of a date to finish the first phase of the competition, followed by Cerro Porteño from Paraguay, which has 8, Olimpia with 5 and Peñarol from Uruguay with Four.
For this reason, on the sixth day of the zone, it will have to be decided who will get the other ticket to the next phase: Colón will visit Peñarol with the sole objective of ensuring leadership, while the two Paraguayan casts will face everything or nothing at the Cerro Porteño stadium.