🤯 Manager heads to dressing room on 89 mins, team go out
· Yahoo Sports
In football, you need to stay focused for 90 minutes. Pretty much everyone knows that. Everyone... except Cienciano coach Horacio Melgarejo.
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With the aggregate score tied at 2-2 against Montevideo City Torque in the Copa Sudamericana quarterfinals, he left the bench and headed to the locker room.
The idea was to come back and give instructions to the players for the penalty shootout...
Cienciano, however, conceded a third goal in stoppage time, lost 3-0 (they had won the first leg 2-0), and said goodbye to the 2026 Copa Sudamericana.
Montevideo City Torque will be Atlético-MG’s opponent in the semifinals. Boca Juniors and Vasco will face off in the other matchup.
The final will be a single match on Saturday, November 21, at Metropolitano Barranquilla in Colombia.
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