The Cordovan “Pirate” came to the rematch with the advantage due to the goals of César Mansanelli, from a penalty, after an irresponsible hand by the Paraguayan defender Adalberto Román, and the “Spicy” César Pereyra.
In the Monumental, River was placed 1-0 with a goal from Mariano Pavone at 5 minutes but Guillermo Farré aborted with the tie (16m. ST) the recovery of the “Millionaire”, who a 2-0 local was enough to save himself for coming from the higher category.
The goalkeeper Juan Carlos Olave covered a penalty against “Tanque” Pavone at 24 minutes and the game was consumed between the desperation of the River players, the despair of their fans and the disturbances generated as a reaction to the unacceptable, as detailed in his analysis the Los Andes site.
Referee Sergio Pezzotta, threatened with death at halftime by the “Borrachos del Tablón”, ended the game a few minutes earlier when the Monumental was already the scenery of a war field, with fire in the stands and men shot down on the grass.
The relegation, which preceded a year that of another great like Independiente, was the outcome of three bad seasons, which began with the last place in the 2008 Apertura.
After the title obtained in the previous semester, with “Cholo” Diego Simeone as coach, River began a fall that could not be avoided with five changes of coach or with the arrival to the presidency of a club glory: Daniel Passarella.
There were 114 games with a meager harvest of 141 points, which was barely enough to avoid falling into direct relegation like Huracán and Quilmes.
Juan José López’s team lost the last date with Lanús (1-2) in the Monumental, was in the promotion zone along with Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, and could not revalidate the category against Belgrano of “Ruso” Ricardo Zielinski.
Two presidents passed through this process, José María Aguilar and Passarella, and seven coaches: Simeone, Néstor Gorosito, Leonardo Astrada, Ángel Cappa and Jota Jota López, plus the interims of Gabriel Rodríguez and Jorge “Tapón” Gordillo.
Source: Ambito
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