What starts, what does not start. What a threat, what stays. Carries, stops. And so, the sequence leaves Racing further and further away from being a serious candidate to win the title. It seems that he is allergic to that pilcha, as if that goal of going for glory weighs on him. In another decisive game, Racing was not up to the challenge. He played badly, without football or solidity, and lost 1-0 with Estudiantes. He had to revalidate the victory over Argentinos to stay on top and once again he took a step back. After a game that ended with a lot of nerves due to impotence, and with two players less for the reds to carbonero and Alcaraz, the Acadé again resigned ground in its fight for the championship. It did not reach him with that crazy search at the end. Racing lost to Estudiantes and the fight was complicated.
So poor was the Academy that he did not kick once with a bow destination in the entire development. It will have been, perhaps, the worst face that Fernando Gago’s team showed in quite some time. Racing was a predictable, innocuous rival, too fragile for a Estudiantes that won almost all the divisions and played it with a great attitude, without giving any ball for lost.
If Racing’s 11 against 11 was of a very flat level, when he was left with 10 due to the expulsion of Johan Carbonero, everything became much more complicated. And there, the inaccuracies began to deepen until they became a bewilderment in the whole of Pintita. There was no reaction. As there was not in almost the entire match for this strange Racing that lacks determination, beyond the mitigating factors due to casualties due to injury and other herbs.
Racing had no answers of any kind against Students
Racing was a shadow in the collective and the individual, Just in a key contest, in which he needed to win so as not to lose track of those ahead, he faltered again. To the surprise of many, when the entry of Vecchio As a starter, Gago played it for Cardona from the start. And Edwin returned what he almost always did: insignificance. Worse it would not be fair to fall only to the Colombian, of course. The team was a sea of poor performances: Hauche, Jonatan Gómez, Moreno, Alcaraz, Mura… Far from their best versions, they contributed to the lack of inspiration of a dull team, with very forced movements, without naturalness, without associations , without imbalance in the one against one. And with distractions in defense when the local accelerated.
The Acadé never imposed conditions. Students compromised him with vertical attacks from the sides, took advantage of misintelligence of the adversary in poor coverage of spaces, he came clear on a couple of occasions. Racing finished pushing, stumbling, in a very hot climate where very strong legs abounded, to the limit. Already when the meeting was definitely a battle, the Pincha held the advantage against the unimaginative attempts of the Acadé. Now, to pray that those above leave points along the way.