Arsenal s Alexis Sanchez became Chile s all-time top-scorer with his 38th worldwide goal in Thursday s 1-1 draw with Germany at the Confederations Cup.
Encouraged by the cheers of thousands of Chileans in the stands at Kazan Arena, the Copa America holders kept up the pressure in pursuit of the vital second goal. They were loudly cheering and sending the waves, chanting repeatedly 'Go Chile'.
"Alexis scored a very special goal because he is now the top scorer ever for Chile", Pizzi told reporters. "The opposition have an incredible team, even though they have very young players, and we were able to compete with them toe-to-toe".
Alexis Sanchez is officially Chile's record goalscorer following his strike in the Confederations Cup against Germany.
As amusing as how a game is, their success presently depends on the failure of either Germany or Chile this evening.
"I'm very happy to be Chile's top-scorer now, our dream is to win this tournament and we feel we have a chance", he said after picking up the Man Of The Match award.
Despite Loew s positive appraisal, Chile could have been 2-0 when Eduardo Vargas rattled the crossbar on 20 minutes with Barcelona goalkeeper Ter Stegen beaten.
Following the unsafe attempt of the Chilean side Germany's Lars Stindl earned a yellow card for wrecking into Chilean defender Jean Beausejour.
"So far, so good, and I think that everybody is enjoying playing in the Confederations Cup", he said.
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Chile, trying to win its first major global tournament after winning consecutive Copa America titles, was in control for most of the match in front of 38,222 fans at the Kazan Arena, holding on to possession and creating chances with Sanchez and Eduardo Vargas up front.
That set the pattern of play for much of the first half, although Germany finally broke through with a flowing team move that saw a lovely pass by midfielder Emre Can in a move that was finished off by Borussia Mönchengladbach forward Stindl.
It appeared Chile's press was going to succeed once again after Matthias Ginter had a scare with Sanchez.
With ten minutes remaining in the game Chile's Beausejour gripped and pulled back German defender Joshua Kimmich and earned another yellow card for his team.
This proved to be the last goal of the game, with Can playing all 90 minutes as Low made no changes.
"Of course, as the game wore on, we felt the wear and tear but that is natural". "Today we first of all needed to organize good defense and we have achieved this task. It was a very high quality match and we showed we can compete at this level, and at times impose our style".
Germany play Cameroon in Sochi on Sunday, vying to knock Chile, who play Australia in Moscow, off top spot in Group B and book their place in the semi-finals.
This year's tournament is held between June 17 and July 2 at four stadiums in Russian Federation and they are Spartak Stadium in Moscow, St. Petersburg Stadium, Fisht Stadium in Sochi and the Kazan Arena in Kazan.
Alexis Sanchez refused to be drawn on his Arsenal future after becoming Chile's all-time top-scorer in Thursday's (Friday in Manila) 1-1 draw with Germany at the Confederations Cup.
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