In the last breath of the game, Communications came back against Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa
Communications managed to keep the victory in the last play of the matchthanks to a goal from Allen Yanes to defeat Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa 2-1.
This result leaves the white team in second place in the standings with 33 points, one less than Antigua GFC, which was confirmed at the top after its victory against Cobán Imperial (2-0).
For their part, the Lucians remain in the penultimate box in the table with 15 units far from the classification zone.
Coach Willy Coito made several changes to his usual eleven, but he struggled from the start as Santa Lucía’s bet was to go on the attack, so he had control of the game in the first few minutes.
Proof of this, at minute 17 the team of the jaguars surprisingly put themselves in the lead, after a bad rejection by the defense Nicolás Samayoa and a failed attempt by the Mexican Isaac Acuña to finish off the Chilean, he left the ball served for Walter Gaona, who shot hard and placed the ball in the left corner of goalkeeper Fredy Pérez for 0-1.
🥳⚽GOOOOOOOOOOOL OF SANTA LUCIA COTZUMALGUAPA ⚽🥳
⏱️Minute 18
➡️ Score Walter Gaona
🔥Communications 0-0 Saint Lucia pic.twitter.com/nTV6kSutoE
– Cristian Menéndez GT (@cmenendezgt) November 10, 2022
Said annotation was like a bucket of cold water for the capital team, which quickly sought to react, but ran into a rival who knew how to stop in each of its lines and closed spaces to prevent damage to Arnold’s goal. Barrios, who had an outstanding performance against his former team.
Communications could not find the way to tie and wasted several options in which he could match the actions.
But it was not until the second part, already with the entry of Óscar Santis, that the albos managed to break the bolt of the lucians and at minute 54, a play initiated by Jorge Aparicio, who served for Andrés Lezcano and this one with a screen let the ball roll at the arrival of Santis who made a cut in front of his mark and finished off to inflate the Barrios net and put the game on an equal footing.
🥳⚽ GOOOOOOOOOOOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS ⚽🥳
⏱️Minute 54
➡️ Score Santis
🔥Communications 1-1 Saint Lucia pic.twitter.com/aY0jSJnd9N
– Cristian Menéndez GT (@cmenendezgt) November 10, 2022
Already with the draw, Saint Lucia again ordered herself to block the passage of the creams, They ended up in the area of sight and were insistent with the aim of finding the score that would give them the three points.
But towards the end of the match, on the last play, a corner kick executed by Kevin López, Yanes met José Corena’s serve and as a last resort he made an earwig to place the ball at the bottom of Arnold Barrios’ frame at 90 + 2 and seal the white victory.
🥳⚽ GOOOOOOOOOOOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS ⚽🥳
⏱️Minute 90+2
➡️ Score Allen Yanes
🔥Communications 2-1 Saint Lucia pic.twitter.com/VMcDgu2IjN
– Cristian Menéndez GT (@cmenendezgt) November 10, 2022
