Deportes La Serena took all three points at the Municipal de Coihaique on Thursday evening, seeing off Universidad de Concepción 2-0 in Primera División action. The visitors moved up to ninth in the table, while their hosts remained stuck in fourteenth after another defeat. To be fair, the result reflected the difference in quality across the ninety minutes.
A. Henriquez opened the scoring in the twenty-fifth minute, and here's the thing — it was the moment the match turned. The hosts had created chances, including an I. Rasso effort ruled offside in the thirty-ninth, but couldn't convert. La Serena got their substitutions spot on, with R. Delgado's goal in the sixtieth minute effectively killing the contest.
By then the pattern was clear enough. Concepción held 68 per cent possession and registered 133 attacks, but big chances created stood at zero. They hit the target five times from twenty shots, while La Serena needed just four shots on target to score twice. There is no value left at that number when you're playing with less than a third of the ball.
The visitors were solid defensively, making thirty-three clearances and winning twenty-seven tackles to Concepción's ten. They also created two big chances of their own, compared with none for the hosts. The clean-sheet run came to an end for Concepción, and they have not won since their last victory.
Yellow cards were distributed evenly enough — Concepción received one, La Serena three — though the game never lost control. Substitutions came thick and fast in the second half, with eight changes between the sixty-first and seventy-eighth minutes. The final tally leaves La Serena eight points clear of their opponents in the standings.