workshops it hit once more very soon. At 3 minutes, in his first charge of the night, Escalante fouled Diego Valoyes on the edge of the big area and Garro caressed the free kick with such delicacy that he deposited his flip flop at mid-height next to goalkeeper Ezequiel Unsain’s left post .
But that anticipated advantage gave birth to a new version of the “T”: that of a more contained and careful team, more stopped behind than other times. The Albiazul proposed to always play counterattack. When he was in advantage throughout the first stage and when they tied him in the last play of that time.
With a penalty that “Uvita” Fernández invented by turning his back and letting himself fall before Juan Rodriguez’s mark and that Fernández himself turned into the local tie. Without the VAR, in charge of Diego Abal, succeeding in intervening to repair the gross mistake of the World Cup referee Fernando Rapallini
With the result posted, it is clear that without giving up victory, Talleres chose not to lose Florencio Varela. And because of that, he did what he did. A lot of energy was focused first of all on not leaving open spaces in the middle and on sending Defense to play on the flanks. When the Falcon was able to enter (and that was only in the second half) the hands of Guido Herrera appeared. The Cordoba goalkeeper slapped three shots from Barbona, Solari and the Colombian Mosquera and saved his team from a defeat that perhaps would have punished him excessively.
Some players suffered more than others from this counter-punching version of Workshops. In his first game as a starter so far in the championship, Valoyes began complicating with the speed of his pikes. But followingwards, he had to start from further back and give a hand as a midfielder on the right. Pizzini was not so deep on the left on other nights and he was much more of a midfielder there, retained and with little arrival.
Michael Santos also did not seem comfortable chasing the balls that fell from above and even Garro had to watch the ball fly over his head several times before the defenders decided to skip the lines and connect directly with Santos or Valoyes. It wasn’t even Rodrigo Villagra who was the patron of the middle: he had to stop a few meters ahead of Catalán and Rodríguez trying to cover the gaps that might arise between them.
In other words: Talleres decided to sweat even more than the almost stifling night forced in order to win the draw. And he did it with unwavering dedication. The chronicler’s notes do not lie and indicate that following Garro’s great goal from a free kick, the Albiazul only came two more times: a Michael Santos header that went just high 29 minutes into the first half. And at 41 minutes into the second, a cross from Matías Catalán from the right that Valoyes might not reach.
It is quite a fact that one of the most offensive teams and with the best line in the championship has had so few situations. All a sign that the accent was placed more on the counter-offensive with the priority of taking care of a difference that the wrong whistle of referee Rapallini at the end of the first stage reduced him by half.
Defense didn’t come that far either. Almost nothing at first and a little more in the second when he ran into Guido Herrera’s saves. He had to beat Talleres to share the lead in the championship with San Lorenzo and he did not succeed, but he still left applauded by his people who recognized his excellent campaign with a much lower budget than many.
Talleres returned to Córdoba approved in attitude and with the certainty of having scored a point on a difficult court. He strictly applied that phrase that says that if you cannot win, you must not lose. Perhaps a new version of the “T” was born in the middle of a night with more heat than football in Florencio Varela.
