08/20/2021 16:00
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Updated 08/20/2021 9:27 PM
Fourteen seconds.
A hit. Another party
. That's how quickly the development and sensations in the Florencio Sola changed. From the start, A pure touch (there were five in total, with pure precision), Students astonished Banfield. It was defined by the Uruguayan forward Manuel Castro. Thus, fast and furious, Ricardo Zielinski's team
took the lead and began to feel that the leadership chair is a comfortable place. And nice
(until it lasted, until that tie of Jesús Dátolo with ten minutes to go).
Castro's goal is, at the time of this note, the fastest of the tournament.
But not that of Argentine soccer.
It is remembered: the record belongs to Carlos Dantón Seppaquercia, who scored the fastest goal for him, playing for Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata against Huracán, at 5 seconds, on March 18, 1979.
1⃣ First question to comment on Manuel Castro's goal 🇺🇾.
📺 The timer on the TV shows 13 seconds when he passes the goal line.
⏰ The goal was at 14.73.
🤔 Usually the clock is struck a second or two later.
pic.twitter.com/vmO6cCLP5F
- Silvio Maverino (from home) (@mavegol) August 20, 2021
The meeting was
suspended for lack of light from eight minutes
.
It resumed 17 minutes later.
The referee, Nicolás Lamolina, added 18 at that stage, including other minor interruptions.
A tactical match was made from that wake-up goal.
There were no variants, but Banfield, forced, could not do anything other than the predictable: go looking with his best arguments.
Javier Sanguinetti's team, which was not coming with a good step (one point out of nine possible; two games without converting), tried to make appearances on the outside through Juan Alvarez and Ramiro Enrique and with Pons as center forward.
In the middle, the usual: the impression that Giuliano Galoppo can do something good
.
By naturalness and circumstance rather than desire, Estudiantes began to back down.
He left spaces forward, bet on counterattack and stopped ball plays
(one of his strengths; especially taking advantage of the height of his two central defenders -Agustín Rogel and Fabián Noguera- who measure more than 190 centimeters). Logical. Very logical: a very typical virtue of his coach, that Zielinski improver of equipment and resources.
The first half of the plugin offered yet another clue to busting a myth.
Zielinski is usually classified as defensive, building mooring teams, designed for zero.
None of that, beyond occasional exceptions linked to circumstances or scarce resources.
But that is not this technician.
At Florencio Sola, when his Estudiantes won 1-0, he
did not decide to hang on the crossbar, far from it
.
They arrived little and he was close to liquidating him with a very strong shot by Juan Sánchez Miño saved by Federico Altamirano.
But with the changes (especially the entry of Dátolo), already in the last stretch of the meeting, Banfield found spaces and arrivals
.
He played in the rival field, he was uninhibited with the ball, he managed the development.
And so, due to the merit of that search, the cry of the tie came through the remarkable punch of Jesus on a ball that eluded Andújar.
Dátolo ❤️ pic.twitter.com/linTjHdW1a
- GauchoDrogo (@Luciano_Uriel_) August 21, 2021
And that relief that could even continue in victory if it was not for the intervention of the Pincha goalkeeper, who ended up becoming one of the best in the game.
It would have been too much punishment for Students.
