09/17/2020 - 14:01
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Racing Club resumed the path in the 2020 Copa Libertadores against the strongest rival in Group F
, since with Nacional de Montevideo it shares the leadership, both with ideal scores, as a result of the triumphs achieved before the coronavirus pandemic.
The game will be played from 5 pm
at the Presidente Perón stadium and
with live television broadcasting by Fox Sports (Channels 106 of Cablevisión and 605 of DirecTV)
.
In the previous one it was presumed that there could be quite a few differences between the teams and that they were going to be evident from minute one.
Racing returned to play after 187 days and Nacional reached the
Cilindro
after 9 official matches, plus 6 friendlies.
But the superiority of the Uruguayans did not happen:
the premises were more and better and deserved to go ahead in the first half that ended without goals
.
Coach Sebastián Beccacece surprised at the last moment and left Lisandro López on the bench, who the first week of September worked in a different way due to a muscular discomfort.
Darío Cvitanich jumped onto the field, which sounds like a reinforcement of Rosario Central but who in Racing believe that he will stay to play the Libertadores.
Eugenio Mena, against Armando Méndez.Photo Reuters
Cvita
usually misses incredible goals
since he dresses in light blue and white and against Nacional it happened again:
he screwed up the ball when he was inches from the goal line
.
The striker made an extra mistake: he tried to define with the right hand when the play clearly asked him for a subtle touch with the left foot.
Thus, the one born in Baradero 36 years ago could not put the bow to a crack play by Benjamín Garré on the right, 40 minutes into the initial stage.
Everything was from Racing, at one gear less than what I used to be used to.
Avellaneda's team was patient: he handled the ball slowly, looking for spaces to appear.
And once it found them, it accelerated with intensity.
That was the idea and it worked for him.
On the right Garré and Solari overflowed a lot and well and on the left Fértoli and Rojas did.
He just lacked being finer in definition.
The
Academy
had the three clearest in those moments
: a header from Martínez that went just over the crossbar, one hand-to-hand from Cvitanich after another, a large overflow from Garré and a deflected shot that was contained by goalkeeper Sergio Rochet from Garré himself .
Nacional played like he was in love with the point: he
took shelter in his own field
without going too far back and bet on two or three runs, which did not cause too much danger.
Gonzalo Bergessio was very alone in the lead and the youths who played a line behind
Lavandina
did not show rebellion, as if the frame was still heavy.
And the second half had started like the first, until Gabriel Arias made a gross error at the start and
caused Mauricio Martínez to be penalized
by one hand.
Bergessio did not forgive and changed it for a goal
.
And a minute later, Solari earned the second yellow and
was sent off
.
It was 120 seconds of terror for Racing.
In these circumstances, due to the pandemic, being down on the scoreboard and with one less man seems a lot like the worst-case scenario.
An employee disinfects to prevent contagion with the coronavirus in the Racing stadium.Photo EFE
The advantage that Racing has over the other Argentine teams, which are also reinserted into the Copa Libertadores amid the uncertainty of not having their football level measured, is that it has a good harvest of points achieved before the contest was suspended. forced by the pandemic, since he is the only one of the locals that achieved two wins in the same number of presentations.
The team led by Sebastián Beccacece debuted with a victory against Estudiantes de Mérida and on the second date they thrashed Alianza Lima at home.
Nacional
also has six units as a result of its triumphs against the same rivals, in Peru and in Montevideo's Central Park against the Venezuelan team.
The match underwent a change in the refereeing team,
since Brazilian Anderson Daronco, who was appointed to lead Racing-Nacional, tested positive for coronavirus
, as did his compatriot Bruno Arleu, who was to be the substitute.
As a precaution, the assistants Fabricio Vilarinho and Rafael Alves were also isolated.
Anderson Daronco, who was going to direct in Avellaneda, tested positive for coronavirus and was isolated.
(AFP)
For this reason, Conmebol defined this Wednesday that
the Chilean Cristian Garay directs in Avellaneda
, when he was going to be the fourth referee in Defense and Justice against Delfín from Ecuador.
Champion for the only time in 1967,
Racing enjoys the most prolific period in its participation in the Libertadores
, since between 2015 and 2020 it added four cup presences, of the total of ten times it has accumulated in its history.
The club has even had seven consecutive seasons with an international presence,
since to the dispute of the Libertadores of 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2020, it is added having competed in the South American of 2017 and 2019
.
The negative: he never made it past the quarterfinals.
In fact, the last time he did it was in 1997, when he reached the semifinals with Alfio Basile as coach, and in that instance he was eliminated by Sporting Cristal de Peru.
Gonzalo Bergessio, Nacional captain and scorer, also a former Racing player who returns to Cilindro.
(EFE)
Nacional is in a great moment in the local championship, since, with twelve dates played in the Apertura Tournament, he is escort for Rentistas with 23 units
, the product of six victories, five draws and one defeat.
In the nine games played by the
Bolsa
in the resumption of soccer in Uruguay, he scored 18 goals,
of which eight were contributed by Gonzalo Bergessio, his great figure and captain
.
Against Racing, the tricolores will return after 189 days to the Copa Libertadores in a very special meeting for Bergessio and his compatriot Claudio Yacob, since both will face the team where they played in 2006 the first, and between that year and 2012 the second .
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