April 12, 2026 – 20:41
Olimpia extended its lead in the Apertura 2026 tournament standings to six points with its 2-0 victory yesterday in Ciudad del Este against Rubio Ñu, provisionally led by World Cup winner Roberto “Toro” Acuña. A game with many spices, a double by Sebastián Ferreira, including a blooper and two missed penalties.
Game control, blooper and missed penalties
The Olimpia of “Vitamina” Sánchez hypnotizes, puts rivals to sleep to establish the difference with dynamic, precise and sometimes forceful football. Until now, the only one who took his pulse was Trinidense.
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The albiverde proposal was defensive, backwards, a strategy that is successful only if the goal is kept clean. By not presenting a plan B, he had to remain in the mold, exposed to the rival’s attacks.
The fringed dominance, established from the start, was reflected on the scoreboard in the first quarter of an hour, with a high pass from Richard Sánchez to Sebastián Ferreira, for control and definition with subtlety. The Laureate’s defense played bail, but Álvarez was hooked.
The only charge by Rubio Ñu in the entire first stage that generated some danger was with a kind of face to face between Rodi Ferreira and Olveira, to which the right back arrived in great demand.
The Dean could have gone into halftime with a superior lead. The 71% possession that the statistics showed painted in full what was happening on the rainy Alto Paraná afternoon.
The complementary match was different, with the double change of Rubio Ñu, who modified his scheme, got excited in front and was left unprotected behind. Like the short blanket, you cover the head and the feet are uncovered.
Ferreira had chances for the double. His penalty was deflected by Frágueda. On the rebound, “Chapa” Martínez, who was charged with the infraction due to an outstretched arm, smashed the face of “11”, the scorer of the goal “unintentionally.”
The fringed team was close to setting up the win, but Rubio Ñu found himself with a “microscopic penalty” charged through the VAR for an alleged foul by Vargas against Pérez, whose shot was blocked by Olveira.
The Expreso is heading towards winning the title of a tournament that is taking place “at full speed” so that our “sacrificed” leaders go en masse to the World Cup, while the main actors, the players, must deal with physical wear and tear and injuries.
