FUTVE 2: Four teams dreaming of promotion

After a hard-fought season in Liga FUTVE2, the Playoffs are not disappointing, and we are getting closer and closer to the final for the long-awaited promotion to the Liga FUTVE. Here’s how the quarter-final second legs played out. 

Bolivar overcome first-leg deficit

After the first leg at the Estadio Jose Alberto Perez, where Trujillanos beat Bolivar 1-0, the team coached by Jesus Rodriguez managed to reverse the deficit, coming from behind to beat the Warriors 2-0, leaving a 2-1 aggregate score.

The first goal of the match was scored by Argenis Gómez inside 16 minutes of the first half, levelling the score. With the rest of the game at a stalemate, it look like extra time was inevitable. But a Rafael Tapia goal in the 96th minute sent Bolivar to the semi-finals.

Moreno goals help Marítimo 

Their opponents will be Marítimo, who defeated Real Frontera 2-1 in the second leg of their quarter-final match. The result mirrored that of the first leg, sending the Guairenses through 4-2 on aggregate. Marítimo striker Enmanuel Moreno was the star of the tie, scoring a crucial goal in both matches.

Ureña: the great candidate

After a season in which they qualified for the playoffs for the first time in their history, Adolfo Monsalve’s side are not disappointing. After a 1-0 win at the Estadio Olimpico, they thrashed Deportivo Miranda 5-2 at the Polideportivo Humberto Laureano, showing great strength ahead of the decisive stages for promotion to the topflight of Venezuelan football.

The Azucareros began the match leading 2-0. But the visitors tied the match with two goals in a six-minute period at the start of the second half. But to the huge disappointment of the away fans, who longed to see a thrilling finish, Ureña scored three goals in 10 minutes (81′, 88′, 91′), and the match ended 5-2.

The man of the big moments

That’s the name Heroes de Falcon striker Victor Viez earned after scoring yet another late goal.

This time he did it in the second leg of the series between Heroes and Nueva Esparta, whose first leg ended 3-3. The result of the second leg was 3-1 in favour of the Falconians, with the striker’s goal in the 88th minute of the second half, a goal that definitively settled the series. The 24-year-old striker has now scored five goals after the 85th-minute mark this season.

With these results, Heroes de Falcon will face Ureña for a place in the final for promotion to the FUTVE League.