Rangers v O'Higgins (2013)

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.

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)

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

Further information: 2013–14 Primera División of Chile § Torneo Apertura

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) [note]
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) [note]			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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Universidad Católica*	16	11	3	2	35	13	+22	36
2	O'Higgins*	16	11	3	2	24	10	+14	36

Source:

• After the 17 matches of the round robin

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universidad Católica	17	12	3	2	37	13	+24	39	Súper Final (tied in points)
2	O'Higgins	17	12	3	2	28	13	+15	39

Source:

Details

7 December 2013

17:30

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

Estadio Fiscal, Talca

Attendance: 8,016

Referee: Patricio Polic

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

Man of the Match:
Pablo Calandria (O'Higgins)
Assistant referees:
Marcelo Barraza
Christian Schiemann
Fourth official:
Roberto Tobar

Match rules

• 90 minutes.
• Seven named substitutes.
• Maximum of three substitutions.

Statistics

Overall

	RAN	OHI
Goals scored	3	4
Total shots	4	10
Shots on target	1	2
Corner kicks	3	7
Fouls committed	17	6
Offsides	0	1
Yellow cards	7	2
Red cards	2	0