Soccer-S.America round-up-Everton pull off stunning recovery

By Brian Homewood

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 15 (Reuters) - Everton, trailing 3-0 from the first leg, hit back to win 4-1 at Audax Italiano and qualify for the Chilean championship semi-finals.

In other mid-week action in South America, leading pair Libertad and Nacional enjoyed easy wins in Paraguay, where Osvaldo Ardiles's Cerro Porteno struggled to a 1-0 win over Guarani.

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Everton scored an injury-time goal to complete a stunning fight-back against Audax Italiano in their quarter-final second leg on Wednesday night.

The outcome of the tie seemed a formality after Audax won 3-0 away in the first leg but Everton, led by former Chile coach Nelson Acosta, had other ideas as they took the lead with a Cristian Canio penalty in the 21st minute.

Ezequiel Miralles added a second in the 56th minute, Carlos Garrido pulled one back for Audax in the 69th and Canio put Everton 3-1 ahead four minutes later.

The drama was completed when defender Cristian Oviedo scored a fourth one minute into stoppage time from a pass by Miralles to send Everton through on the away goals rule.

Universidad de Chile also went through, winning 2-1 at O'Higgins to complete a 6-3 aggregate victory.