The scorers on each side fulfilled their quota and that is why
Belgrano and San Lorenzo finished 1-1 in Córdoba
.
Lucas Passerini and Adam Bareiro shouted one each and left everything in a tie that left Ruben Darío Insua's men with a semi-bitter taste because, although they added as a visitor, they did not take advantage of the more than 25 minutes that they had with one more player and so They still don't win in the League Cup.
In San Lorenzo they are still trying to understand how Lucas Passerini, one of the most dangerous center forwards in Argentine football, had so much freedom inside the area to capitalize on Matías García's corner kick, stop the ball from his chest and cross the goal. goal.
If there was a player who could not go unmarked on a dead ball, it was Passerini.
And it was precisely he who was free and knew how to take advantage of it to break even in the first and only risky situation that Belgrano had in the first half.
Because there lies the explanation why the local team went into halftime with an advantage: they took advantage of what they had, while San Lorenzo squandered their chances, which were clear but not many.
Juan Barinaga fell
asleep at the exit, Cristian Tarragona stole it from him and built a wall with Malcom Braida.
The Barça number 9 hit the post while his attacking partner, Adam Bareiro, claimed it free.
And then, Agustín Giay threw out a dangerous cross shot on one of his climbs on the right.
GOAL FROM BELGRANO: great definition by Passerini for Pirata's 1-0 against San Lorenzo in the #CopaDeLaLiga.
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It was striking that an electric player who can always surprise with some unpredictable movement like Nahuel Barrios did not start.
In fact, it was a last minute change.
Until one day before the game, the
Dog
was on the team.
However, number 10 had a bruise on his ankle and the Gallego preferred to keep him on the bench and roll the Tarragona-Bareiro double nine, with Cristian Ferreira breaking free in the middle.
That idea of Insua did not mesh in the initial stage.
Beyond having the most lucid arrivals, they were not the work of those societies that are trying to be built with these new names that still clearly need to be known more.
And that is achieved with filming, of course.
Ferreira starts as an internal midfielder on the left, while the kid Elián Irala appears on the right, both a few meters ahead of Carlos Sánchez.
But Ferreira was released as a natural link to try to command the Cyclone, something that did not succeed.
The same as the pair of nines, which seem to counteract rather than complement each other.
The
plot twist
of the match occurred 19 minutes into the match.
Esteban Rolón did poorly from behind against Braida.
The referee, Nazareno Arasa did not hesitate and sent him off.
The red one was correct.
Barrios was already on the field (he came in for Gastón Campi).
San Lorenzo became emboldened and tied it on the next play.
It was a corner kick from Braida and
a devastating header from Bareiro
, the scorer of the Insua cycle.
ALWAYS THE GOALSCORE: while the people of Belgrano were setting off fireworks in the 68th minute, Bareiro won with a header and made it 1-1 for San Lorenzo against Belgrano in the #CopaDeLaLiga.
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It seemed that the visit would take advantage of the clean and jerk and the numerical advantage in their favor.
But Belgrano stood up well on the counterattack
with a Passerini who held all the balls up and even searched for them to continue bothering the Barça center backs.
Boedo's cast played more than 25 minutes with an extra man and it was not noticed.
He was seen to be in a hurry, disorganized, without clear ideas to the visitor, who did not know how to step into the Nahuel Losada area with risk in this last stretch of the already hot Cordoba night.
He didn't even finish off the goal with one more.
And that explains why everything ended in a distribution of points, the first for both in 2024.