Chile win on penalties

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Chile win on penalties

Sunday, 30 June 2019 | AFP | Sao Paulo

Champions Chile maintained their hopes of a third straight Copa America victory after beating Colombia on penalties to reach the semi-finals.

Chile could have won the game in normal time but had two goals ruled out for marginal decisions in a scoreless draw, before Alexis Sanchez stroked home the winning spot-kick.

It was just rewards for the champions after dominating a match in which Colombia held on thanks to a couple of tight VAR calls.

Charles Aranguiz had a goal ruled out in the first half for a marginal offside against Sanchez in the build up to the move.

And After Arturo Vidal shot low into the far corner on 70 minutes, that was chalked off for a handball against Guillermo Maripan, who had teed up the Barcelona midfielder.

After eight successful penalties, William Tesillo casually put his effort wide for Colombia, leaving Sanchez to be the hero, as the Manchester United forward continues to make up for a dreadful club season.

Chile continued to boss proceedings right to the end after two unsucessful chances but in the shoot-out it was third time lucky as not even VAR could deny them victory this time.

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