The one who plays the best does not always win but the one who is the most effective and
Estudiantes
and
Platense
presented in La Plata a new example of this soccer maxim.
Calamar won 2-1 thanks to goals from
Gabriel Hachen
and
Mateo Pellegrino
(
Zaid Romero scored),
despite the fact that Pincha was clearly dominant for much of the match.
In this way,
Platense ended a streak of five games without victories
and still dreams of qualifying for the quarterfinals, while
Estudiantes lost after 16 games
in which they accumulated 11 wins and five draws.
That's football.
With the momentum of last night's very good victory against Godoy Cruz and the push of their fans,
Estudiantes drowned Platense during the first half.
He recovered the ball quickly, dominated the middle of the field with the hierarchy of Enzo Pérez, Santiago Ascacibar and José Sosa, and deployed his full-backs (Eric Meza and Gastón Benedetti) as two wingers to add attacking options.
Thus he generated chances to open the scoring.
The clearest was in the 38th minute with a good climb by Meza on the right and a center back for Correa, who finished off the left post.
Meanwhile, the visiting team took refuge in their own half with a 4-5-1, leaving Rolando Martínez as the only forward to bet on the counterattack, but they looked overwhelmed and could not string together three or four passes forward.
At halftime Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez made two changes:
Gabriel Hachen
and
Mateo Pellegrino entered.
And 10 minutes into the match they were already winning 2-0.
Who scored the goals?
Precisely those who jumped from the substitute bench.
At 16 seconds of the complement, Hachen surprised everyone to capture a rebound inside the area and open the scoring.
Then Pellegrino, a former Estudiantes who changed the game with his entry, widened the difference with a violent mid-distance shot.
Pure efficiency.
When Platense was better, the Estudiantes discount arrived.
Just 3 minutes after Pellegrino's goal,
Zaid Romero appeared,
heading in after a corner taken from the left by Sosa, to make it 2-1.
The local team little by little regained control of the first half, although without the clarity of the first 45 minutes, but found a defensive wall in their rival.
And so the game went and his undefeated.