La Serena 0-1 Antofagasta: Visitors dig out a narrow success at La Portada

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La Serena on home loss to Antofagasta at La Portada on Sunday. La Serena were looking to get back their winning ways, following a previous defeat to Colo Colo. Antofagasta, on the other hand, had managed to pick up a single point in their matchup with Univ de Chile. At the moment, La Serena are in 13th place in the table and have 17 points while Antofagasta sit in 16th with 12 points after 18 matches.

Following a goalless first half, Antofagasta continued to apply pressure in the second and were rewarded, when Gabriel Torres gave Antofagasta the lead in the 66th minute, leaving the final score at 1-0.

Substitutions for La Serena included Federico Andrada, Luckas Carreno, Lucas Alarcon, Angelo Quinones and Juan Cavallaro for Matias Fernandez, Cristian Erbes, Victor Ramon, Jeison Fuentealba and Jaime Carreno, repectively. Antofagasta brought on Gabriel Torres, Marco Collao, Jason Flores, Ariel Uribe and Leandro Vega, to replace Maykol Sanchez, Brandon Estay, Ivan Ledezma, Manuel Lopez and Byron Nieto.

The referee booked seven players. Victor Ramon, Santiago Dittborn, Marcelo Herrera and Humberto Suazo from La Serena, who saw yellow cards and Santiago Dittborn (2 yellow cards), sent off with a red, as well as for Antofagasta Federico Bravo and Byron Nieto received yellows.

La Serena will play their next fixture away against Coquimbo Unido, while Antofagasta will face Audax Italiano at home.

Technical card:
La Serena:Zacarias Lopez, Jens Buss, Victor Ramon (Lucas Alarcon, min.46), Rodrigo Brito, Marcelo Herrera, Jaime Carreno (Juan Cavallaro, min.80), Cristian Erbes (Luckas Carreno, min.46), Matias Fernandez (Federico Andrada, min.46), Santiago Dittborn, Humberto Suazo and Jeison Fuentealba (Angelo Quinones, min.72)
Antofagasta:Diego Sanchez, Juan Cornejo, Federico Bravo, Paulo Magalhaes, Byron Nieto (Leandro Vega, min.90), Ivan Ledezma (Jason Flores, min.60), Salvador Cordero, Diego Orellana Riffo, Brandon Estay (Marco Collao, min.46), Manuel Lopez (Ariel Uribe, min.60) and Maykol Sanchez (Gabriel Torres, min.46)
Stadium:La Portada
Goals:Gabriel Torres (0-1, min. 66)
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