Independiente
managed to dispatch
Laferrere
with a score –3 to 0-, which was predictable, but which came with a lot of sacrifice.
The Lanús field overflowed with public
in the spaces set up for the fans of each team and that gives the
Argentine Cup
that flavor that regular football, of any category, no longer has, which only has the monotony of the team's spectators. local.
It was Laferrere, the team that
Guillermo Szezurak
couldn't make work in Primera B, that complicated things for Independiente.
Precisely because of this difference in categories and the historical weight of the Avellaneda team, every second that passed without goals added pressure for coach
Carlos Tevez
.
And it took several minutes until
Rojo
was able to find his way back to
Villero
.
The clock showed 42 minutes and Independiente went to the locker room without being able to resolve the last line of five defenders and a tight, tight midfield.
Then
Alex Luna
appeared and gave him the advantage.
The 1-0 was the result of a cross shot to the right post by goalkeeper
Carlos Morel
, who had excelled so far.
RED'S GOAL!
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Before, Tevez's team had created many situations that had them close to opening the scoring.
But to the lack of aim we had to add the failures of referee Hernán Mastrángelo, who got into trouble at the start when he disallowed a goal from Javier Ruiz, due to a poorly perceived previous foul by Gabriel Ávalos on Morel.
Then followed the festival of untaken penalties.
And the topic that Tevez raised a few days ago in the Professional League Cup came back to the table: the work of the referees.
Without VAR, Rojo suffered from the lack of review of the images: only in the first half did he claim three penalties that were not sanctioned.
A
pineapple to Ayrton Costa
after an undeniable struggle that was already a foul;
the grab or tackle of Alexis Canelo
followed in the foreground by the live broadcast;
and the last one, of the clear ones, ended with
Alex Luna
on the floor after having crossed the crescent.
As the complaints piled up, Laferrere came close to achieving the feat.
He gave Rey work with the two weapons he used in attack: counterattacks and set pieces.
Without other offensive ambitions, the team that recently left the First C did not let Independiente be any more.
Until Luna's goal, of course.
For the second half, Independiente multiplied its control and played closer to Morel who responded satisfactorily.
Apart from a
little moment
in which Laferrere had a little air and seemed dangerous,
Tevez's men continued to add “deservations”.
The first penalty that Mastrangelo did see was the one that allowed Federico Mancuello to widen the difference and determined the expulsion of Fernando Ortiz in Laferrere, after adding the second yellow card.
The goal and the red card cleared up the difficulty that Rojo presented.
INDEPENDENT GOAL!
Mancuello changed penalty for goal and begins to sentence history in Lanús.
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Despite the disadvantage, Morel was still the most outstanding player on the field, or at least one of them.
The third, in fact, arrived by the same route as the second.
This time the infraction in the area was on Maestro Puch, but the person in charge of the execution was the Colombian Jhonny Quiñónez, who had a smooth and exquisite definition that snubbed the goalkeeper.
The victory was undeniable.
Although it was difficult, Independiente achieved a sensible difference, although not as large as the number of situations it managed to create.
Laferrere did not reach the 16th place in the Cup, his best position in the competition, and received three slaps in his first time with the Avellaneda team.
INDEPENDENT GOAL!
Quiñonez took charge of the penalty after the foul on Maestro Puch and scored with great quality to make it 3-0 for Tevez's team.
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