02/25/2021 16:08
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 02/25/2021 7:37 PM
Another surprise in the Argentine Cup
: Huracán, champion of the 2014 edition, was left out against Sportivo Estudantes de San Luis.
They tied 1-1 in the ninety minutes.
The puntanos prevailed 5-4 on penalties.
Students seem like a specialist in offering astonishment: in 2019 he had eliminated San Lorenzo.
It was a pain to the end.
On the field of play during the ninety minutes there were minimal differences between the Primera team, Huracán, and the Federal A team, Estudiantes de San Luis.
Almost everything was distributed: the field, the ball, the arrivals.
It was a bit more Hurricane
.
Perhaps by obligation or by urgency or by mandate of circumstances.
But not.
In fact,
in the first half, the San Luis team looked more convinced
, with the tenacity of its midfielders and with the intensity to play each ball they made an even development.
Even Sportivo Estudiantes was the one who
struck first
.
Ball stopped, center to the area and implacable header from Cesarini.
They were 25 minutes into a game that was already causing concern to this Hurricane of indecipherable directions.
Then the best moment of Huracán was born in the game
.
He went looking.
He took it seriously.
He wanted, tried from below, above, with corners, with a stopped ball.
And so, stumbling, came to equality five minutes from the end of the first half.
Diego Mendoza was reunited with the goal on a ball that seemed lost, like so many others
.
The second half was tense, even too
.
Students was more conservative.
Hurricane went to look for the advantage.
But he collided over and over again, against the rival defense and against the good goalkeeper Becerra.
To make matters worse,
they annulled two goals to Briasco
.
Both by off side.
The first, millimeter;
the second, very clear.
At the end, the San Luis team almost won it with a free kick, but a spectacular fly by Cambeses prevented it.
What followed was a certain conformity towards the penalties.
To that instance where nobody is a favorite ...