The Venezuelan team achieved its first historic victory this Wednesday against its counterpart from Mexico 1-0 on the second day of Group B of the Copa América, in a duel held at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
With a lot of fight, determination and sacrifice, the Venezuelan team managed to lift the historic soccer yoke that Mexico had over them and thanks to a goal from Pachuca’s scorer, Salomón Rondón, they were able to celebrate and also add their qualification to the quarterfinals of the competition.
In a stadium full of Mexicans and with a strong hostile atmosphere, the initiative from the first minute was put on the table by Mexico, which dedicated itself to throwing long balls that were a headache for Venezuela.
Just 20 seconds in from the defense they launched an aerial ball that was mismeasured by the Venezuelan center back Nahuel Ferraresi and that fell at the feet of Uriel Antuna, who sent a low cross to Santi Giménez that missed him by centimeters.
Subsequently, Venezuela established itself in the game and with the usual formula of Soteldo’s attacks on the left wing, the first warning came, with a cut inside and a shot from outside the area by the Venezuelan number 10, which passed just above the goal.
At 33′ the clearest of the first half came and it went to La Vinotinto. Salomón Rondón, who had been fighting the entire first half against Mexico’s center backs, ran into space after a long ball from Venezuela’s winger Jefferson Savarino.
Despite stumbling at first and being hit by Montes, Rondón took advantage of the fact that the ball was hitting to take a cross shot that J. González could not reach and that in the end ended up hitting the vertical of the Mexican goal.
Since then the match entered a rocky stage where clashes and tackles were the protagonists in the middle of the field, with particular duels between Julián Quiñones and Jon Aramburu and another duel between Yangel Herrera and Luis Chávez until the end of the first half.
The second half changed what was seen in the first half, with Mexico holding the ball but Venezuela having the initiative with two clear opportunities in the Soteldo-Rondón partnership.
In the first Soteldo gave way to Rondón after facing Sánchez and the Pachuca striker finished centimeters wide with a deflection of the Mexican defense and seconds later a mistake by Sánchez almost ended up being capitalized by Soteldo but his shot went wide.
But the third time’s the charm and once again Fernando “Bocha” Batista’s changes gave results, with the entry of Cristian Cásseres in Venezuela, key in Venezuela’s goal that would come seconds later.
An impressive double wall by Jon Aramburu with Cásseres on the right wing ended with the right back Vinotinto entering the area and upon seeing the arrival of Quiñones, he protected the ball so that the naturalized Mexican committed a child penalty, which José Salomón Rondón ended up converting into a goal. at 57′ for 1-0.
Since then, Mexico tried more with love than with football to achieve equality, with constant shots that had no effect as the minutes passed.
However, at minute 84 ‘a series of rebounds in a confusing play ended with a handball from Miguel Navarro that the principal sentenced as a maximum penalty.
The midfielder Orbellín Pineda, who had entered for Quiñones, took the risk of charging but with a simple and simple shot the other Romo, Rafa, the Venezuelan goalkeeper, was able to save the Caribbean team by saving the ball to the corner to put them in the next phase and seal La Vinotinto’s first victory in its history against Mexico.
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