In the first game of the semester in which they scored 4 goals, Independiente made a big difference with the weak Paraguayans through goals from Domingo Blanco, from a penalty, Tomás Pozzo, Leandro Fernández and Alan Soñora.
Meanwhile, in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, Ceará beat Venezuelan team La Guaira 3-0 and jumped to the top of the group with 12 points, with two games remaining. Independent has 9 units.
Independiente adopted an aggressive attitude led by the youthful Julián Romero well supported by Batallini, Pozzo, Blanco and Soñora. While the Paraguayan team waited cautiously, giving control to Avellaneda’s team.
General Caballero is led by the Argentine Luciano Theiler, who in his career as a soccer player played in the paradisiacal Maldives Islands, then in troubled Lebanon and later in Bangladesh.
In its squad, the Paraguayan team presented the Argentines Miguel Escobar, former Banfield and Sportivo Belgrano, and Juan Heinze, who always played in Paraguayan soccer, as starters.
Theiler arranged a special mark for “Mingo” Blanco, which left Soñora with the main responsibility of helping Lucas Romero in his recovery.
The ingenuity of the General Caballero soccer players was taken advantage of by Independiente and thus Julián Romero had two opportunities that passed very close. The juvenile became a constant problem for the Paraguayan defense.
Independiente continued to exercise control, but without much work for goalkeeper Juanito Alfonso, until at 29 minutes Blanco crashed an excellent shot off the crossbar.
The reward for insisting so much came in the 38th minute when Blanco tried a stack in the area, they took it out and the ball fell to Batallini who, when he tried to kick, received two stomps from two local footballers, for which the referee Gamboa sanctioned a penalty .
Blanco himself was in charge of executing the maximum penalty and converting the goal that Avellaneda’s men were so looking for.
In the second half, Independiente insisted on looking for the Paraguayan goalkeeper with a lot of pressure and good control. And the prize came at 13 when Batallini let a ball pass on the side, and then hit a 45-meter run to serve it to Tomas Pozzo who defined it with great quality inside the area, nailing it at the far post.
A few minutes before, Alfonso received a back pass, got complicated and cleared well over the line with Batallini on top. The referee and his collaborators ignored the claim, but TV, despite the fact that there is no VAR in the first phase, confirmed that the ball had entered.
With three minutes remaining, Vigo overflowed and put a center back that Leandro Fernández took and kicked, the ball hit two defenders and slowly passed over the goalkeeper to become the third goal for Independiente.
Independiente exhibited a forcefulness that had not been seen in the Argentine League when the defender Lezcano tried to pass it to his goalkeeper, Leandro Fernández captured it, who got into the area and made a feint to serve it to Soñora who defined with the bow just to score the fourth.
Source: Ambito
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