If Belgrano had to say present in the Professional League, he chose one of the most powerful teams to show him his conditions and win a hard-fought victory, making an intelligent approach. And what’s more, entangling his opponent to such an extent that the 2-1 win once morest River Plate admits no discussion.
As happened once morest Racing a week ago, the idea was clear on the Pirate’s side from the moment the ball was put into play: shrink towards the middle, join the bottom five with the midfielders and leave no room for River to think a lot .
In the first minutes, the visiting team threatened to complicate the local. With a couple of runs from Borja, offside, he showed that the place to hurt was in the middle. However, those moments were a mirage for Martín Demichelis’s team: he never got it right and the only one Solari had might not beat Losada. Belgrano decided to attack on the right wing rather than the other sector. Compagnucci and Sánchez put together a partnership of those that are born to last and drove Casco crazy at the start of the game.
There were not many situations regarding the arches. Guillermo Farré’s plan was fulfilled: close the ways of River, make him lateralize the ball and not let “Nacho” Fernández and Solari get together too much. In return, play fast on the sides and bet on a ball crossed over the area. When Sánchez beat Díaz and enabled Rojas, so that the bearded midfielder centered towards Vegetti’s loot and the 1-0 scoreline became a reality, the stadium understood that it was night, that it might be. Right before River, this great man who bit the dust with the Pirate in 2011, felt the fire in his bowels once more. Because Vegetti fatally wounded him.
Nuñez’s team tried a reaction and stayed in the attempt, unable to get out of their astonishment at the strategic game of the local. Longo, Sánchez and the others multiplied when it came to cutting and sacrificing.
That of the speed in First seemed to feel it River. The spaces were tiny and he did not have the footballing ability to solve the problem. “Nacho” he gesticulated all the time and pointed out where to go, but the formula was spoken and not executed. In the ST, nothing changed. “La B” kept running with Vegetti as standard bearer, with Sánchez being the handle in the absence of Zapelli’s appearances, with Longo multiplying to cut and with the five behind closing the paths.
The ST was similar to the first: Sánchez fights and rebounds, Rojas and Vegetti kick so that Armani shows once more how weak he is as a goalkeeper. The stadium was crazy, the goal came together, the celebration of the 68th minute and the lack of control of more than 40,000 Pirates who roared with a victory that was unlikely in the preview, but which showed that nobody wins before playing… and less lose.
River came upon him and when the legs of the celestial ones showed the effort, the 1-2 came and the moment of final endurance. Farré put a line of six behind and it was all resistance. Nothing of lyricism or of a beautiful game, it was to endure, throw it up and close a game that had cost a lot to put it in his favor.
No one can be offended by the way the Cordoba team played because they did it with their weapons, with their ability to accommodate themselves on the field and knowing that what they had to do was neutralize a rival who is superior on paper.
In Belgrano it is not playing well, badly or more or less. It is adding because the objective requires it. And four out of six in two games and once morest Racing and River, it is much more than what was thought when the fixture was known.
