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San Lorenzo beat Sarmiento with a goal from Gattoni and remains on top of the table

2023-02-21T03:31:14.828Z


The defender, who returned to play after resolving his future, gave the only shout in a boring duel at the Eva Perón de Junín.


You don't need a great performance.

Neither, that brightness that purists demand so much.

Since Rubén Darío Insua is the coach of San Lorenzo, he hardly needs a hit on the net to get the three points.

He happened last night in Junín, but it is a constant in his cycle:

of the 13 games he won in the 31 dates of his cycle, 10 were by the slightest difference.

By 1-0, as against Sarmiento, or 2-1. And just as 2022 ended, with the qualification for the Copa Sudamericana on the last day, 2023 began. El Ciclón won three of the four matches in the Professional League and There are already seven wins out of the last eight he has played.

And at least the fans can stop worrying for a while about the institutional suffering that he experienced last year, beyond the fact that they are waiting for an early definition of the date of the elections to be able to change a Board of Directors in crisis.

Is it possible to get excited about a good sporting past?

The idea is

And in these times when the discussion of “playing nice” or “playing well” relaunched by Juan Román Riquelme was dusted off, it must be said that San Lorenzo does not display virtuosity, but it is not something that matters to him either.

The Insua team is pragmatic.

Bet on order, sacrifice and seek to be forceful.

They don't despise the ball, but they're not a group that flaunts possession either;

without going any further, it is in 17th place among the teams with the highest percentage of possession with an average of 50%.

This yes, nobody will be able to say that it does not play well.

Aboard a 5-2-3 with wings that are usually midfielders and don't always pass.

Malcom Braida does it on the left, but it is much deeper when he throws at Gonzalo Luján and Iván Leguizamón, as happened in the second half.

Insua was right with the changes.

The match called for more vigor on the outside, where Sarmiento found it difficult to contain because he also usually plays with two midfielders.

And El

Gallego

moved the bank on time.

Luján and Leguizamón entered instead of Nahuel Barrios and Ezequiel Cerutti.

He accommodated the midfield with Jalil Elías to accompany Carlos Sánchez in the position that the Perrito had vacated, but the solution was immediate.

Two minutes later, Luján sent a cross past, Andrés Vombergar (wearing a swimmer's cap as a result of the cut he suffered in the first half after a clearance by Cerutti) lowered it, Adam Bareiro headed, Sebastián Meza partially covered and Federico Gattoni appeared in position of "9" to take advantage of the rebound of "1" of Sarmiento and shake with his left foot.

With the modifications, Insua unlocked an even match in which much more was played than was played and in which Sarmiento had had the clearest situations: a one-on-one that Luciano Gondou, in full opposition, defined poorly when the game started and a shot from Javier Toledo, after a lateral, which Augusto Batalla covered.

A good response can also be found in the goalkeeper at the time of San Lorenzo.

The hand in hand that he covered Lisandro López in a reply that Toledo managed, after a loss by Sánchez in the middle, was fantastic.

From that play came a corner from Quiroga that Elías saved on the line.

It would have been an Olympic goal.

And in the end he held back with a scare for Rafa Pérez, who was sent off by Herrera until the referee was warned via VAR that he had been wrong.

San Lorenzo wins, whoever likes it, and dreams.

Source: clarin

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