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Rangers v O'Higgins

Event	2013–14 Torneo de Apertura Game week 17
Rangers de Talca O'Higgins 3 4
Date	7 December 2013
Venue	Estadio Fiscal, Talca
CDF Man of the Match	Pablo Calandria
Easy Man of the Match	Pablo Calandria
Referee	Patricio Polic
Attendance	8,016
Weather	Clear 28 °C (82 °F)

The Rangers vs O'Higgins football match that took place on 7 December 2013 at the Estadio Fiscal in Talca, Chile, was the 17th and last game week of the 2013–14 Torneo de Apertura.

This game could determine the champion of this tournament, because at the same time Universidad Católica, the other club that could be win the league, played against Unión La Calera.

Match

The last match day of the championship O'Higgins visited Rangers de Talca. The local team started winning with Mauricio Gómez goal, but O'Higgins did not give up and as in the tournament, went on to turn the game and got goals from Pablo Calandria and Julio Barroso. In the second half, it was thought that the title was slipping from the hands, because Rodolfo González and Esteban Ciaccheri put uncertainty in the Estadio Fiscal de Talca, where the score was 3–2 in favor of Piducanos.

Eduardo Berizzo, coach of the visitor, made changes and put Francisco Pizarro and Osmán Huerta on the ground, whose first ball touched overcame the Rangers' goalkeeper Nicolás Peric tying the game at three goals, leaving 10 minutes to end the match. At 88', Pablo Calandria was brought down in the area and the referee Patricio Polic charge penalty kick and expelled the goalkeeper Peric and because the team of Talca had made three modifications, the player Hugo Díaz played as the goalkeeper. At the same time, Universidad Católica was playing in parallel and winning against Unión La Calera in Quillota, so if the match was tied or lost, the championship was slipping for O'Higgins. In the 90', the Argentinian Pablo Calandria scored the goal which unleashed the madness of 4,500 fans, which completed the stadium, turning the match 4–3, right then Universidad Católica overcame 2-0 the caleranos.

So both clubs advanced to the 2013–14 Súper Final Apertura, which chooses the champion of the Torneo de Apertura 2013–14.

Road to the last game week

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away). These results only considered the regular phase of the tournament (round robin), consisting of 16 matchdays played since 26 July until 7 December of 2013.

Universidad Católica				Round	O'Higgins
Opponent	Result			Round robin	Opponent	Result
Ñublense	3-0 (H)			Matchday 1	Deportes Iquique	1-0 (A)
Unión Española	1-0 (A)			Matchday 2	Antofagasta	2-1 (H)
Universidad de Concepción	1-1 (H)			Matchday 3	Audax Italiano	1-1 (A)
Audax Italiano	1-1 (H)			Matchday 4	Everton	1-1 (H)
Palestino	6-3 (A)			Matchday 5	Santiago Wanderers	3-0 (A)
Cobresal	3-0 (H)			Matchday 6	Palestino	0-1 (H)
Huachipato	4-0 (A)			Matchday 7	Ñublense	1-0 (H)
O'Higgins	1-2 (H)			Matchday 8	Universidad Católica	2-1 (A)
Deportes Iquique	2-2 (A)			Matchday 9	Huachipato	1-0 (H)
Rangers	5-1 (H)			Matchday 10	Universidad de Chile	1-1 (A)
Santiago Wanderers	2-0 (H)			Matchday 11	Universidad de Concepción	1-0 (A)
Universidad de Chile	1-0 (A)			Matchday 12	Colo-Colo	2-3 (H)
Cobreloa	2-1 (H)			Matchday 13	Cobresal	4-0 (A)
Everton	2-0 (A)			Matchday 14	Cobreloa	1-0 (H)
Antofagasta	0-2 (A)			Matchday 15	Unión La Calera	2-1 (A)
Colo-Colo	1-0 (H)			Matchday 16	Unión Española	1-0 (H)

1. The match between Santiago Wanderers and O'Higgins finished with result 2:2, but the coach Ivo Basay put on the match 6 foreigners players, being punished with a 3-0 defeat against.

2. The match between Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica was suspended and finished with the result at the last minute of the game (0:1).

League table

• Before the 17th game week of the tournament

• After the 17 matches of the round robin

Details

Rangers	3–4	O'Higgins
Gómez 15' (pen.) González 56' Ciaccheri 67'	Report	Barroso 19' Calandria 43' (pen.), 90+1' (pen.) Huerta 78'

GK 22 Nicolás Peric  17'  89' CB 4 Rodolfo González (c)  51' CB 3 Francisco Tapia  90+2' CB 6 Carlos Garrido RM 8 Sebastián Luna  30'  80' CM 5 Marcelo Scatolaro  71' CM 21 Hugo Díaz  36' LM 26 Jorge Valenzuela AM 20 Sebastián Sciorilli  84' CF 9 Pablo Vegetti  54' CF 19 Mauricio Gómez Substitutes: GK 33 Emmanuel Vargas DF 15 Adrián Rojas DF 13 Esteban Sáez  84' MF 18 Sebastián Domínguez  71' MF 14 Lautaro Baeza MF 29 Diego Fuentes FW 7 Esteban Ciaccheri  54' Manager: Fernando Gamboa

GK 12 Paulo Garcés  81' RB 8 Yerson Opazo  86' CB 22 Mariano Uglessich  14' CB 5 Julio Barroso LB 24 Alejandro López RCM 2 Braulio Leal (c)  70' LCM 5 César Fuentes AM 10 Pablo Hernández RW 7 Luis Pedro Figueroa LW 13 Gonzalo Barriga  70' CF 9 Pablo Calandria Substitutes: GK 1 Roberto González DF 4 Benjamín Vidal MF 18 Fernando Gutiérrez MF 14 Claudio Meneses MF 11 Francisco Pizarro  70' FW 19 Carlos Escobar  86' FW 16 Osmán Huerta  70' Manager: Eduardo Berizzo

Statistics

References

1. "Full-time report". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
2. "FALLO DEL TRIBUNAL DE DISCIPLINA POR EL CASO O'HIGGINS-WANDERERS". anfp.cl. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
3. "Duelo entre Católica y U. de Chile se suspendió tras caída de proyectiles". deportes.terra.cl. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
4. "Universidad de Chile - Universidad Católica, suspendido por agresión a un futbolista - Goal.com". goal.com. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
5. "Rangers vs. O'Higgins - 7 December 2013 - Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2015-02-03.

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• 2013–14 Campeonato Nacional season
• Rangers de Talca