From the enchanting hell, almost in tune with the music that sounded on the loudspeakers before the game, to that ending that already seems recurring in the Libertadores de América Ricardo Enrique Bochini.
A deluge of whistles in full sun.
And no, there is no possible rainbow in that combination.
This Independent version of Leandro Stillitano only has from the one led by Ariel Holan his vocation for attack and the salute that the best red of recent times rescued.
His former assistant can't find the way around.
So,
Independiente went from winning by two goals and being on the verge of winning the third to an unexpected draw and the feeling that they could be left with nothing.
Had it not been for the hands of Rodrigo Rey, the fall would have been due to decantation.
And it is also true that he could have won it with his last breath, with the enthusiasm of the kids Santiago Hidalgo, Tomás Pozzo and Rodrigo Márquez.
Jorge Carranza's hands and the stick prevented him.
The streak in Avellaneda is diabolical:
he added a point of 9 in the Professional League and he has not been able to win for five dates.
The coach, aware of everything that was at stake in this caldera, made changes.
He seemed to start with a 4-2-4, with Nicolás Vallejo and Mateo Barcia wide open in the company of the two center forwards, Martín Cauteruccio and Matías Giménez.
And it was a red gale in those first moments.
Three minutes had not passed and Carranza, the veteran goalkeeper from Cordoba, had wallowed in his area in a triple cover against Cauteruccio and Giménez.
Institute, aboard a 4-4-2 looked overwhelmed.
Independent was aggressive.
And he found a penalty that the VAR warned.
Yael Falcón Pérez warned Nicolás Ramírez that Leonardo Mosevich had touched the ball with his hand during a sweep in the area.
The referee attended the monitor and observed what he did not see -or considered not punishable- on the field of play, that the central defender abruptly lowered his arm, took a risk.
And charged the offense.
The Uruguayan, old fox of the area, exchanged for a goal.
It did not change the game for Independiente.
Far from settling for the advantage, he went for more.
From the handling of Iván Marcone in the middle of the field and the explosion of Vallejo, he created danger.
The Sub 20 boy shook his left foot and blew the crossbar.
And he was also the one who recovered the ball in front of his own area to lead the lethal counterattack that ended in the second red goal.
Vallejo played long for Giménez, who opened towards Kevin López and the youth projected to put the center back, the "9" from San Juan let it run, Barcia received and touched behind so that Cauteruccio, with a soft shot to a corner, left no chance to Carranza.
All in the midst of a great desynchronization of the people of Cordoba.
It was a great goal, too.
Independiente's problems began when Instituto, which had been shown to be harmless, began to attack in depth.
He had tried on the left, with the Gastón Lodico-Sebastián Corda tandem.
But he began to have a greater role on the right, with Gabriel Graciani.
He had a clear one, a wall between Brahian Cuello and Santiago Rodríguez, which he finished off from the croissant and met with a great reaction from Rodrigo Rey.
From that play came the discount.
Independiente's defensive deficiencies had already been noticed on a set piece with a Lodico corner from the left.
The corner kick that came from Rodríguez from the left was devastating.
It was a past cross, Rey hesitated, no teammate crossed and Adrián Martínez rose to the far post to head the score to 2-1. And the Cordovans almost tied it in the epilogue.
Independiente collapsed behind Marcone's back.
And Kevin Lopez came out.
Unarmed, with more heart than football, he looked for mid-distance with Giménez and Ostachuk, but Carranza covered.
Franco Watson entered.
Lodico grew up.
Institute observed that 2 to 2 was not impossible.
Rey worked hard to block a very difficult shot.
But in the ninth corner, the people of Cordoba won again.
And from Lodico's corner kick -again poorly defended- came Linares' turn and equality.
Instituto seemed close to victory, with the people nervous and the red players running amok.
Neck lost it.
And Rey covered up again before Alarcón.
Hidalgo's youthful pride remained.
And that end with Costa's shot that Carranza covered and the rebound that Báez hit the post.
And popular disapproval.
One more time.
Independiente is a giant that is still asleep and does not wake up.