2023-09-15 13:54:47
With clenched teeth and in a match of extreme tension, Independiente defeated Huracán 1-0 in Avellaneda to consolidate itself at the top of Zone A of the Professional League Cup.
The Diablo fans are excited and they are already calling the renewed team led by Carlos Tevez the “Apacheta”.
Independent: Tevez’s “Apacheta”
The technical director is the “Apache” for the world of football, and coincidentally or not, The “apacheta” is a mound of stones placed one on top of the other that the indigenous people of northern Argentina raise as a tribute to “mother earth,” recalls the Télam agency.. And that is precisely what Tevez is doing with “his own” Independiente, putting stone upon stone to build a solid team that functions as such and that honors the magnificent history of the Avellaneda club.
The defense was a “wall” and in the last games we saw the team that Tevez is looking for, with quick action, deployment and attitude.
“Apacheta” has already won 3 out of 3 in the League Cup. Carlitos’ team also has a draw with the taste of defeat once morest Estudiantes for the Argentine Cup (they lost on penalties).
This team already seems to be absolutely different from that of its predecessor, Ricardo Zielinski.
This “new” Independiente went out to attack from the beginning, combining passes, with a true line of five in the background that released its two experienced “lateral-laterals” such as the Chilean Mauricio Isla on the right and Damián Pérez on the left, and on the middle Federico Mancuello creating and supplying Matías Giménez and Alexis Canelo, helped in that management by the former Arsenal, Santiago Toloza.
Independiente’s goal once morest Huracán
The balance for all this had a manager as experienced and with the same sense of belonging as Mancuello, who was the central midfielder and captain Iván Marcone, who recovered and distributed like an old-fashioned “five”, beginning to recover the level that some time had hand in hand with this tactical design formed by Tevez.
Thus it was that Independiente began to overwhelm Huracán on the sides but also to pierce him through the middle, and not only with filtered passes but also with a suffocating high press that at 34 years old was precisely led by Mancuello.
And as a result of this, at 25 minutes Mancuello recovered a high ball, faced the visiting area and finished crosswise, but his shot was half rejected by goalkeeper Lucas Chaves and Alexis Canelo took charge of the rebound with a short shot. with his left foot, he scored his first goal with the Independiente shirt.
That goal was the crowning of a manifest superiority of Independiente, which occurred in all levels of the game, to the point that goalkeeper Rodrigo Rey was a mere spectator in the first half, and later he would also be a spectator in the second.
A second period in which the locals never took their foot off the accelerator, “diving headlong and showing constant intensity,” according to what Tevez had proclaimed on the day of his presentation as coach of Independiente.
Canelo’s effort was commendable, running all the balls until the final minute, which allowed him two more goal options that narrowly missed, adding to this that regarding half an hour into the complement he also forced Fernando Tobio committed a foul that earned him the second yellow card and the subsequent red card.
Thus, Independiente and its people who filled the stadium were pure enjoyment, as were its players and its coaching staff, which Tevez reinforced very well a couple of days following taking office.
On the next date, which will be played during the week, Independiente will visit Rosario Central on Tuesday at 9 p.m.while on that same day and time Huracán will host Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, in another crossing “for relegation.”
Carlos Tevez’s phrase regarding Independiente
Carlos Tevez stated that he feels “happy and content to be the coach of Independiente, because “When this club embraces you, it doesn’t let go.”.
“The most important thing is that the team started to compete and people realize that. Today we won a final and the beautiful game is going to come. I feel happy and content to be at Independiente, because when this club hugs you, it doesn’t let go of you anymore.”Tevez confessed in the post-match press conference.
“Our game plan was to put pressure on the goalkeeper (Lucas Chaves), because he is the player with the best footing that Huracán has when it comes to starting from the back. And then, the encouragement of the people made me want to play once more”he highlighted.
Then contradicted his Huracán colleague, Diego Martínez, for his statements in the opposite locker room. “The statistics say that Huracán kicked the goal only once and I do not share his view that the development of the match was even and that they deserved a draw,” he said.
“But what stood out is what the team did throughout the game in addition to the victory. And we continue working to find other things that allow us to continue growing.
Then he made some individual references and in this regard he indicated that Ayrton Costa “was suffering and they will do studies on him (he came out averaging the first half): We asked him during the week if he was ready to play and he told us yes, but then he went through what happened. But Felipe Aguilar did some incredible days of training and replaced him very well.”
“And for the rest, I love (Iván) Marcone from the second half, and (Santiago) Toloza is quickly getting used to his new teammates. And it gives me great satisfaction that Joaquín Laso has changed whistles for applause, because it is all his, since he loves this club very much,” the “·Apache” finally described.
Independent’s tweet
Rojo’s institutional account posted a photo of a balloon following the victory.
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