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Newell's gave Racing another blow and left him injured in the preview of the Avellaneda classic

2023-04-13T01:53:45.758Z


Fernando Gago's team had just lost to Gimnasia and now they suffered against 'Leprosy', who is beginning to lift from the hand of Gabriel Heinze. 'Sunday whatever it takes, on Sunday we have to win', the fans of the Academy bellowed.


You look at the neighbor's sidewalk.

It is inevitable on the eve of the classic.

Also, due to the institutional drama that Independiente is going through.

The fans, then, begin the night with smiles, pure joy.

However, they end with a fight, some whistling and downloading an unequivocal message, always focused on Alsina and Bochini.

"On Sunday, whatever it takes, on Sunday we have to win

," the stands roared.

And perhaps that has been Racing's main sin,

playing against Newell's with his head in the

Avellaneda

derby .

Nothing came out.

He had no game and depended purely and exclusively on the inspiration of Matías Rojas.

Of course, you can't always depend on the punch of the Paraguayan, who made five free throws, two stopped by Lucas Hoyos.

Fernando Gago changes too much from one match to another and there are already two defeats in a row, just before a hot duel.

Newell's was always clearer.

Gabriel Heinze presented eight different footballers to the tasteless team that drew against Rosario Central.

And also, he modified the scheme.

He was intelligent, had sacrifice, variants in attack and ended up resolving it with a set piece that Víctor Velázquez took advantage of with a popcorn behind Juan Nardoni's back.

Why did Gago choose to modify the scheme and distribute his players in unusual positions?

The 4-3-3 mutated into 4-2-3-1 with Paolo Guerrero as a reference, but Nicolás Reniero floating behind the Peruvian.

Facundo Mura was the left back, a place he already occupied, but his specialty is on the right.

And the double five didn't work.

Fundamentally, because Jonathan Gómez and Nardoni, two interns, felt uncomfortable.

Newell's put pressure on them when necessary, with Juan Sforza as their standard-bearer, but he had much more influence on the flanks, especially on the left, a sector in which Marcos Portillo, fast, powerful and challenging, made Iván Pillud difficult.

In this way he hurt Newell's, more directly.

Racing, on the other hand, had no game volume.

And everything he could propose was given, as almost always, starting with Rojas.

With some changes from the front, starting from the right, he surprised.

However, neither Mura nor Gabriel Hauche unbalanced.

Crosses for Guerrero ended in a heap of nothing.

He didn't hit the free throws either.

And in the second half he was saved from expulsion, a bad evaluation by Fernando Espinoza, the controversial referee, in a struggle with Guillermo Ortiz.

The VAR avoided the role.

Reniero was not up to it.

He made an effort, but he controlled the balls poorly, he was imprecise in the passes and he ended up on the left, not very gravitating.

In this context, Newell's produced the clearest situations.

Aboard a 5-3-2 in which Armando Méndez deepened on the right, he stepped much more into Gabriel Arias' area.

And Portillo, the best footballer of the first part, will regret not having raised his head when he went hand in hand with the light blue and white goalkeeper.

Jeremías Pérez Tica's filtered pass was notable;

Neuquén's response, too.

Without game or contention, they deserved changes for the second half.

But at the start he rotated positions.

Reniero passed to the left and Hauche was a kind of hitch.

Only after twenty minutes did he introduce Maxi Moralez, but he could never connect.

Maxi Romero did not worry either.

And already desperate, he made two changes in additional time!

Newell's, with the advantage, remained in the order and the crosses at the end made the work of the central defenders easier.

It had been a decade since he could not with Racing in the Cylinder.

The

Academy

arrives wounded at the classic, pressured by their fans and, even with two defeats behind them, with the sign of favorite.

Photo Juano Tesone - CLARIN

Source: clarin

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