That the Instituto’s own technical director, Lucas Bovaglio, has recognized that his team played the worst game since his return to the First Division, forces the chronicler to be very specific. La Gloria lost last night 1-0 once morest Platense in injury time. But he may well have lost long before. And it should have been so.
From 15 minutes into the first stage, and almost until referee Nicolás Ramírez’s final whistle, Calamar was more from the game and from the attitude. And he had so many situations that “Crazy” Jorge Carranza, with almost half a dozen successful slaps, was the only one who kept Instituto in the game almost until the last moment.
The match
There was barely a goal difference because it was only in the second of the 7 extra minutes that Platense was able to break down the wall that Carranza had built in front of his goal. And he did it in a way that perhaps explains what the production of the Alta Córdoba team was.
Nicolás Morgantini put a winger in the middle of the red box, Sebastián Corda combed the ball backwards and entering freely diagonally, Maximiliano Zalazar, who had replaced Vicente Taborda a while before, with a turn unleashed the celebration of the brown fans and in parallel, It plunged an Institute into disenchantment that barely competed for 15 minutes, the first of the game.
In that period, the few virtues were condensed. A determined and mobile team was seen, willing to stand in the field of its rival. After 5 minutes, a right hand shot from Franco Watson, following a good clearance from Lodico, went next to the right post. And at fifteen, the “Gloria” went out and no longer turned on.
The ball began to be divided with a festival of bochazos from the bottom and the good connections of Gastón Lodico and Franco Watson with each other and with the forwards “Maravilla” Martínez and Santiago Rodríguez disappeared.
Platense exploited all that. First to match and then, to go on to dominate with simple resources: a great attitude to win one-on-ones, the rebounds and divided balls, the mobility and judgment of Taborda and the centers that from the sides, Morgantini and Marcich They hit the head of Nicolás Servetto.
In three minutes of that first half, between 20 and 22 minutes, Carranza headbutted Paraguayan Ronaldo Martínez and shot Franco Díaz from outside. And a shot from behind by Servetto, almost unstoppable for Mosevich and Alarcón, went just wide.
At the start of the second, Platense continued to arrive and Instituto continued without arriving. In the same play, Carranza blocked Ronaldo Martínez and Servetto’s goal. And then he prevented Taborda from scoring an Olympic goal. The Institute reacted with the income of Oscar Garrido and Lucas Albertengo for Graciani and Franco Watson. But it was a mirage. The last sign of life came at 33 when Lodico placed a cross in the Platense area and Macagno sent Santiago Rodríguez’s header to the corner.
With the tie, Institute took more than it should. By attitude, game and arrivals, he always ran him from behind to Platense. When Carranza’s hands explained almost the entire result, Zalazar’s goal came to put things in place. And to leave the “Glory” empty-handed. Full of questions. And without any answer.
