The group stage of the 2022 Copa Conmebol Sudamericana for Colombia officially began on the afternoon of this Wednesday, April 6, with the confrontation between Unión de Santa Fe and Junior de Barranquilla at the 15 de Abril stadium in Argentina.
The duel between the Santa Fecino and Barranquillero squad began at 5:15pm Colombian time and these were the payrolls of both teams in the Group H duel where Fluminense and Oriente Petrolero are also:
UNION OF SANTA FE: 4-4-2 (DT: Gustavo Munua)
Santiago Mele; Federico Vera, Franco Calderon, Emanuel Britez, Claudio Corvolán; Imanol Machuca, Juan Portillo, Juan Nardoni, Gaston Gonzalez; Matias Gallegos, Mariano Peralta Bauer.
BARRANQUILLA JUNIOR: 4-2-3-1 (DT: Juan Cruz Real)
Sebastian Viera; Nilson Castrillón, Daniel Rosero, Jorge Arias, Gabriel Fuentes; German Mera, Didier Moreno; Yesus Cabrera, Luis Gonzalez, Fredy Hinestroza; Miguel Borja.
At minute 2 came the first goal cry of the game for Unión de Santa Fe. The one in charge of converting for the locals was Federico Vera, who took advantage of a series of rebounds and bad rejections from the Tiburón team to shake Sebastián Viera's goal with an unstoppable right to the stick of the Uruguayan goalkeeper's left hand that led to 1-0 in the afternoon/night in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz:
Only four minutes have passed since Tatengue's goal and Junior found the match draw quickly after a brilliant leaked pass by central defender Jorge Arias who saw Gabriel Fuentes enabled by the left wing. Junior's winger sent a poisonous pass to the small area and to the bad luck of Unión, Federico Vera pushed 1-1 into own door for the Colombians after having turned the 1-0 minutes ago. This was the draw for the Atlantic team:
The match became tense for the players in the 27th minute and central judge Andrés Matonte had to separate a fight between Yesus Cabrera and Gastón González, who received yellow cardboard for protesting.
Unión appealed to mid-distance shots, while Barranquilleros preferred direct play with balls filtered to the left side where Gabriel Fuentes and Fredy Hinestroza landed.
At 41′, Miguel Ángel Borja received a ball in depth at the edge of the Union area, he got rid of the mark of goalkeeper Santiago Mele and with a left-footed shot hit almost without an angle on the local goal post. The Cordovan missed the chance of winning at halftime with a comeback.
In a matter of seconds, the team led by Cruz Real began to despair and because they did not have possession of the ball one of their figures received another yellow card. Luis Cariaco González saw the warning on account of a kick without a ball to Juan Portillo.
The game went to halftime with a 66% possession for the locals and 34% for Junior after four shots at the Unión goal against none of the Colombians. Tatengue took eight corner shots against none of Junior's, who made five fouls compared to just two by the Santa Fecino club.
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