At 37 years old, Luis Miguel Rodriguez he returned to play officially with the shirt of Colonthe club he led to glory in the last League Cup. For the first date of the same competition, but in the 2022 version, the striker was decisive in his team’s 1-1 draw once morest Boca Juniors.
It is that the Tucuman, who decided to make use of the clause that allowed him to leave Gimnasia La Plata six months following signing his bond to return to Sabalero, left a pearl of his talent to attend Lucas Beltran in the conquest that lowered the blind to the match for Group B of the competition. At 40 minutes of the complement, following a corner from Farías at the near post, the stainless Pulga drew a heel that became a center that rose and closed just for the appearance of the former River Plate, who had entered in the second half.
The attacker had a complex game once morest a rival who maintained concentration for almost the entire match, except for the action in which he was released… And it turned out to be a huge mistake. He had had a chance 40 seconds into the match, when his header was parried down the line by Carlos Izquierdoz.
The issue is that a conflict arose in the locker room over the copyright of the conquest. This is how the youthful Beltrán (20 years old) whitewashed him, who in 2021 had played in the Bombonera, but with the Millionaire’s shirt. The striker also asked Juan Pablo Varsky, a journalist from TNT Sports, if the ball driven by Rodríguez’s heel would still enter the goal if he did not intervene. Faced with the commentator’s negative response and the question regarding whether the former Atlético Tucumán doubted the fate of the ball, the footballer confessed: “El Pulga told me, did you steal it from me?”.
In action, as explained by the author of the conquest, it had a prefabricated look. “The idea was to throw it there -referring to the first post- so that someone appears; I saw the ball pass and I was optimistic,” he described the play, which he shouted fiercely.
“It was a complicated game, on a difficult pitch, in the second half we went in search of that goal and it happened,” analyzed the former River, who said that Falcioni “asks me to stay in the centrals and go out to pivot.” “We have a lot to improve, we want to give our best, start the tournament well and then play the Libertadores, the beginning is fundamental”, he highlighted the point earned by his team in Ribera.
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