And of course...regardless of what happens today in Stgo Vs Pachuca...This comming sunday we AGAIN kick the Desert Foxes Arses in Calama !!! :dielaugh:
And of course...regardless of what happens today in Stgo Vs Pachuca...This comming sunday we AGAIN kick the Desert Foxes Arses in Calama !!! :dielaugh:
See......:glasses: I said it...I truly wasnt 100% certain we were goinn to beat Pachuca....I think Pinochet had to have died a week later.....All the skeletons in The Nacional screewed our party !!!! That Im convinced of !!!!
Colo Colo and Audax Italiano won their semi-final ties and will meet in the Clausura championship final after the weekend's two second legs produced six goals apiece.
Colo Colo, beaten by Mexico's Pachuca in the Copa Sudamericana final after losing the second leg at home on Wednesday, bounced back to draw 3-3 at Cobreloa and win 6-3 on aggregate.
Argentine Lucas Barrios gave Cobreloa a 24th-minute lead in Calama but Humberto Suazo and Matias Fernandez, from a penalty, gave the visitors a 2-1 halftime lead.
Barrios equalised in the 52nd minute, Suazo put Colo Colo back in front in the 71st and Juan Luis Gonzalez made it 3-3 three minutes later.
Audax Italiano survived a fightback by O'Higgins to win the other tie 6-5 on aggregate despite losing the return 4-2. Leading 4-1 from the first leg, Audax were 2-1 up with 25 minutes left before two goals from Venezuelan Giancarlo Maldonado and a Cesar Santis own goal in a seven minute spell put O'Higgins 4-2 ahead.
Marco Olea had the ball in the net for O'Higgins in injury-time but the goal, which would have forced a penalty shootout, was controversially disallowed for offside.
Fernandez sets Colo Colo on way to easy win in final
SANTIAGO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Midfielder Matias Fernandez scored another outstanding goal to help Colo Colo beat Audax Italiano 3-0 in the first leg of the Chilean championship final on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old prodigy, who will join Villareal in Spain at the end of the year, set the Chieftains roud: on their way when he scored with a 40-metre free kick in the 21st minute.
Fernandez's low shot flew past the wall and swerved inside the near post for his 15th goal of the tournament.
Striker Humberto Suazo added the second in the 55th minute with his 13th of the competition, holding off his marker before rifling home a shot on the turn from the edge of the penalty area.
Midfielder Rodrigo Melendez capped the performance with another exquisite goal in the 84th minute, playing a neat one-two with Mario Caceres and flicking the ball past goalkeeper Peric.
...by the way, what is the point of having two championships per season? I know many other countries do the same, e.g. Argentina, but what is the advantage of this over one longer championship?
The MAIN rea$on is that .... $$$$ ... Then other reasons behind it (And they make sense to me from that point o view..) When you have a strong team in a full season...in most cases they build up sucha a large lead that months before that season ends ..... everyone (Xcept the front runner fans) gives up on the championship and revenues go to hell..Attendance is down and TV viewing is down....
When in SA they looked North and saw for example what Mexico was doinn day and day out in their 2 runs per year.. Specially in Chile..they copied the mold to the tee..And basically it has been a success by far compared to the old .... long and tedius campaing.
I like it because...its more for your money and because in a way its like the old long season...In the Apertura whatever fixture is drawn...the same one is used backwards for the Clausura...So if ColoColo for example loses to Cobreloa in the 1st championship..You're lookinn forward that same year for vengeance in the second run...
Also its nice when you can have the last runner up into the play-offs...and the possibility of that team winning it all..
Argentina and Chile use similar seasons with the only BIG differrence is that in Chile we have playoffs,,,and they're exciting and that is a carbon copy of the Mexican league..
Now in the one that just ended in Argentina....and without playoffs..they ran into a ONE decisive game because Boca and Estudiantes had equal points...And AFA is contenplating the Mexican and Chilean examples for possible future use.
Greetings these Holidays for you and family.... :cap: