Colón steamrolled San Miguel at the Brigadier López to go top | OneFootball

El Sabalero beat the Trueno Verde 3-0 at the Brigadier López Stadium on Matchday 8 of Primera Nacional’s Zone A. Nacho Antonio (6' and 12' of the first half) and Nacho Lago gave Ezequiel Medrán’s side the win.

Colón played at home once again with a clear objective: keep collecting three points to strengthen their place at the top of Primera Nacional’s Zone A, something they ultimately managed to do. El Sabalero beat San Miguel 3-0 at the Brigadier López Stadium in the eighth round of the championship, riding the momentum from the recent win over Patronato in Paraná. Ignacio Antonio (6' and 12' of the first half) and Nacho Lago in the 17th minute scored the goals for Ezequiel Medrán’s team.

In the opening minutes, when nothing much was happening, Ignacio Antonio got into the box in the 6th minute and finished with an overhead kick after Marciori broke down the right flank. El Sabalero took the lead right away.

The early goal gave Colón a great deal of calm, and they grew confident enough to control the ball and look for combinations. That’s how, just six minutes later, in the 12th minute, El Sabalero doubled the lead. The same formula: a cross from the right and Antonio in the box to tap it in and make it 2-0 against San Miguel.

Already holding a comfortable lead, El Sabalero managed the pace of the match better, taking advantage of San Miguel’s understandable desperation over the scoreline, and the game settled down a bit.

Until the 35th minute, when another move down the right ended with Marciori getting a shot away, but goalkeeper Lungarzo made a good save.

A minute later, El Sabalero attacked once again down the right, with a deep cross that nobody in the box could connect with, but on the far side Allende appeared, hit it hard, and it went just over the crossbar.

San Miguel tried to respond before halftime when, in the 41st minute, a cross and a miskick by Rasmussen created danger in Colón’s box, but it came to nothing.

The start of the second half seemed to show San Miguel trying to push a little higher up the field with a series of crosses, but in the 17th minute they took another blow from Colón when, after a ball that was headed toward the box, a Trueno Verde defender handled it. Match referee Nahuel Viñas had no doubt and pointed to the spot, and Ignacio Lago converted the penalty to make it 3-0.

After the 3-0, and quite naturally, despite a few more attempts from Colón, both El Sabalero and the team managed by Sapito Coleoni slowed the pace of the game, and not much else happened.

With this win, Colón now has 14 points and two straight victories, putting them alone at the top of their group, at least until tomorrow, while San Miguel has now gone four matches without a win in the tournament.

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