National Soccer
Cobán Imperial defeated Antigua with a player less at José Ángel Rossi and seeks to define his pass to the final in the return match. The colonial team was defeated and demanding a penalty not sanctioned in the first half.
Alexander Robin fights for the ball against Brayan Lemus de Cobán. (Free Press Photo: Douglas Suruy)
Imperial Cobán beat former GFC 2-1 in the first leg of the semifinals of the Closing Tournament 2025.
Imperial Cobán exceeded old GFC on Wednesday afternoon, May 7, in the first leg of the Semifinals of the Clausura 2025 tournament.
The Argentine striker Jonathan Morán He opened the score at the 63rd minute, after several minutes of ancient domain. However, the colonial picture found reward to its insistence to 71, when Diego Fernández “Who had barely three minutes in the field,” the score match after a corner shot executed by Oscar Santis.
Despite the intense rain that fell on the José Ángel Rossi stadium, in Alta Verapaz, the match was attractive and with numerous goal occasions, especially on the side of the team led by Mauricio Tapia. However, the lack of effectiveness of his strikers prevented a better result.
Semifinal will be defined in the thought stadium on Saturday, May 10
Near the end of the game, Yeltsin Álvarez was expelled and left Cobán with 10 men. Even so, Janderson Pereira He took advantage of one of his team’s few opportunities and sent the ball to the bottom of the network at minute 86.
In the first half there was a controversial play that could have changed the course of the encounter: Yeltsin Álvarez intercepted with his hand a shot inside the Cristian Hernández area, but the referee Cristopher Corado did not sanction the penalty.
The second leg will be played next Saturday, May 10, at 7:00 p.m., at the Penative Stadium, of Antigua Guatemala.
There, ancient GFC will seek to overcome to access a new final, while Cobán aspires to dispute the title and dream of its third crown.