In this way, River finished the first round of the group stage with an ideal score, since it added three victories in the same number of presentations and is the leader of the zone with 9 points, followed by Colo Colo with 6, while the Brazilian Fortaleza , which he will visit on Thursday, May 5, adds 3 units as a result of his victory tonight at home over bottom side Alianza Lima, from Peru (0), by 2 to 1.
That same day, Colo Colo will visit Alianza Lima, which today fell to the Brazilians due to goals from the Argentine Silvio Romero and Hércules, while the Uruguayan Pablo Lavandeira had temporarily equalized for the Peruvians.
River Plate found a mirror in the Chilean capital, since the team led by the Argentine Gustavo Quinteros in which his compatriots Emiliano Amor, Leonardo Gil, Pablo Solari and Juan Martín Lucero play, also has a direct game, with fast transitions and permanent offensive vocation.
That led to a very balanced first half, in which there was never a clear dominator and the back and forth was an image and reflection of what both teams are and offer.
And in that future of the meeting, both goalkeepers went through trouble, although the one who paid the most, from the physical point of view, was the local Brayan Cortes, who had to be replaced just after half an hour by the Ecuadorian Omar Carabalí as a result of an injury.
Franco Armani, on the other hand, despite some tumbling, seemed to feel better surrounded by his defense, especially by the Chilean Paulo Díaz, precisely a former Colo Colo who had a clash of heads with Marcelo Herrera, who ended up being recriminated, just as it happened in front of Atlético Tucumán with Marcelo Gallardo for letting a ball bounce.
But the former San Lorenzo was going to have his vindication from the soccer aspect in the complement, since he would have the key to victory for the first River Plate goal converted by the admitted Matías Suárez.
The second period passed in the same vein as the first and was already beginning to travel through the final stretch when at 37 minutes Herrera overflowed from the right and launched a low and lacerating center to the near post that Carabalí could not hold, and then Suárez from Córdoba , appearing by surprise touched the ball to the net.
It could be thought then that River would take advantage of another of its virtues, which is the counterattack, to try to increase as much as to protect that advantage as meager as it is valuable, but on the contrary, Gallardo’s men went for more, with the usual risks that this entailed.
And then the former Independiente, Barco, appeared with his seal of quality and a high and crossed right hand from the left that made Carabalí’s volley sterile. A true great goal that made jump again the good number of fans who came to the Chilean capital and that ended up sentencing history and clearing the future butler of the “millionaires”.
The discount of the former Vélez Sarsfield, Juan Martín Lucero, when the discount was lit, did not allow to encourage any hope for the colocolinos nor any fear for the riverplatenses, who took a gigantic and much celebrated triumph of the Chilean Monumental.
Source: Ambito
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