Palmeiras defeats Deportivo Pereira away from home and opens up an advantage in Libertadores

On the night of this Wednesday, the 23rd, the palm trees faced the Deportivo Pereira in a match valid for the quarterfinals of the Conmebol Libertadores Cup. After intense 90 minutes, the visitors beat the home team by a score of 4-0, in the game that took place at Hernan Ramirez Villegas Stadiumin the city of Pereira, Colombia.

In the first few minutes, Palmeiras showed that they are a disturbing visitor, attacking a lot. At 22 minutes, after review by VAR, Verdão won a penalty, which was converted by Raphael Veiga, who pretended he was going to kick the flag in celebration, but backed off. At 31, Marcos Rochaafter a beautiful move by the number 23 shirt, scored with Ron and increased the score. The bid was reviewed for a possible offside, but was validated by VAR.

And less than a minute later, Deportivo Pereira’s defense ends up failing, seeing the ball being stolen by Rony, who played for Mayke, sent it to Veiga, opened it for Duduwhich he returned to shirt number 12, who scored in the 33rd minute.

In the second half, the home team even managed to bring more difficulties to the visitors, attacking more, trying to reduce the disadvantage. After a few minutes just organizing the match, calmly controlling, Ron widened and opened the rout for Verdão, scoring the fourth goal of the team.

The two teams face each other again next Wednesday, 30, at Allianz Parque, in Sao Paulo city. With the victory, the palm trees can lose up to 3-0 to the Deportivo Pereira at home, which still advances to the semifinals of the liberators. The winner of this match faces the winner of Boca Juniors It is racing.