The fans of Velez They arrived in Liniers in great numbers to see how the brand new team of the Uruguayan technical director Alexander Medina beat the one from Mauro Zaratedescribed as “traitor” from his election by Boca Juniors after assuring that in Argentina he was not going to play anywhere other than in the club from which he emerged.
But in the last quarter of an hour of the game those same fans stopped whistling, as had happened in the previous 75 minutes, at the “disowned” Zarate every time he came into contact with the ball, and he only dedicated himself to goading his own players so that they would simply beat Platense.
Of course, at that time that greater aspiration of the local bias was going to be reduced to a lesser one, that of the tie, because in that exact half hour of the complement those of Vicente López had taken advantage
And precisely the goal came from a personal play of his own Zarate, who cleared the way for Juan Infante, who threw the cross to the far post for Juan Cruz Esquivel’s header to the middle, who with a header Ivan Gomez sent to the net.
And if two headers in the area is a goal, according to a soccer adage supported by dubious statistics, the concrete thing is that although he did not score, the so-called “former’s law” was fulfilled from the gestation of that play by a Zarate which he celebrated euphorically with his new teammates.
And he would do it again once the match was over and with the victory consummated, when he hugged each one of those in brown shirts and barely exchanged a handshake with a couple of those in white and blue.
Previously, before 40 minutes it was replaced by Horace Tijanovich, but very few Velezan fans spent energy failing them. At that moment all the attention was focused on his own team speeding up again, as he had done during the entire first half and half an hour of the second, to no longer even win, but at least not lose.
But it already seemed a little late, and especially when starting the discount the Uruguayan central defender was sent off matias de los santos for stepping on the aforementioned Tijanovich without the ball.
And so Platense ended up winning as a visitor for the first time after 11 games, he returned to victory in Liniers after 34 years, since 1988, and as if that were not enough, although it has only been two days, he has already settled in the first step of the championship. With Zárate in the team and on the pitch Velez.
“We are here to go step by step,” said his central midfielder, on loan from Talleres, from Córdoba, to replace the historic Hernán Lamberti, who went to Quilmes, from where he arrived, after a brief stint at Defense and Justice, the goalkeeper Marcos Ledesma, one of the figures of the night, who not only endorsed the words of his partner, but also endorsed that Platense “is a club to stay in first place forever.”
Formations
Velez Sarsfield: Lucas Hoyos; Leonardo Jara, Matías De los Santos and Francisco Ortega; Diego Gómez, Santiago Cáseres, Luca Orellano and Nicolás Garayalde; Lucas Janson, Lucas Pratto and Abiel Osorio. DT: Alexander Medina.
Platense: Marcos Ledesma; Nicolás Morgantini, Haibrany Ruiz Díaz, Gastón Suso and Juan Infante; Ignacio Schor, Carlos Villalba, Alexis Sabella and Iván Gómez; Gonzalo Bergessio and Mauro Zarate. DT: Omar DeFelippe.
Goal in the second half: 30m. Ivan Gomez (P).
Changes in the second half: Juan Pablo Pignani started for Bergessio (P) and Juan Cruz Esquivel for Schor (P); 10m. Héctor Canteros for Sabella (P); 14m. Máximo Perrone for Garayalde (F); 15 m. Joel Soñora for Orellano (P) and Agustín Bouzat for Cáseres (V); 38m. Horacio Tijanovich for Zárate (P), 40m. Julián Fernández for Jara (F) and Mateo Pellegrino for Osorio (F); 43m. Federico Gino Acevedo by Iván Gómez (P).
Admonished: Perrone (F). Ruiz Diaz (P),
Incidence in the second half: 44m. expelled De los Santos (V).
Court: Jose Amalfitani.
Referee: Patricio Loustau.
Source: Ambito
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