Banfield’s goals were converted by Alejandro Cabrera and Julián Palacios, while the Colombian Miguel Borja pointed out the transitory tie in Núñez.
River, who suffered the second consecutive defeat, was left with 29 points and Banfield, who had just beaten Colón (2-1), reached 25 units, at the door of entering the South American Cup zone.
Banfield combined opportunism and pragmatism so that the first half was favorable against a More Monumental crowded by 21st. consecutive time.
Claudio Vivas’s team was attentive and quick in the face of River’s loss of the ball in attack. And so it complicated the times that he, decisively, he accelerated fully.
A River that sought to forget as soon as possible the painful defeat against Boca in La Bombonera by 1 to 0, worked to find spaces. When he did, at 19 minutes, Andrés Herrera sent the cross to Santiago Simón. The youth took a weak shot that Facundo Cambeses diverted to the corner.
River hit a pothole soon after. Nicolás De La Cruz found it difficult to take advantage of so many marks, Bruno Zuculini was overwhelmed in the middle and Agustín Palavecino did not find solutions either.
Banfield warned with a cross from Palacios that Franco Armani contained in two stages (24m), but was lethal in the following attack.
Emanuel Coronel took advantage behind the back of Elías Gómez and took the center for Juan Cruz. The son of the legendary “Jardinero” took a strong header that he hit the crossbar and the rebound went to Cabrera, who, first, opened the scoring with a great goal.
The fragility of River’s defense, with problems in the setback, between the doubts of Paulo Díaz and Elías Gómez, was evidenced in two plays and the team felt the impact.
Banfield was close to extending the advantage later with a header from Luis Mago, in the execution of a stopped ball, which passed very close to the near post.
At the end of the first stage, Palavecino made more contact with the ball and his shot, with his left leg, created danger for the Banfileño goal.
River went in search of the tie in the second half with greater weight in attack due to the entry of Colombian Miguel Borja, who generated a precise assist for De La Cruz that left him hand in hand with Cambeses. The Banfield goalkeeper, who in the previous play took a shot from Simón to the corner, bailed well and drowned out his goal cry.
While Banfield decided to take refuge in his area, perhaps due to the great rival deployment, River made offensive changes and found the tie through Borja. The “Hummingbird” deflected Herrera’s good center with a header and lifted the River fans.
The joy did not last long for the “Millionaire” because the defense was stunned in a lateral kick and Palacios, with a cross shot and free of marks by the sector of Elías Gómez, left Armani without a chance for 2-1.
River, already with Esequiel Barco on the court, searched with more impetus than ideas, claimed a penalty for an alleged infraction against Borja in the area and Cambeses took it from Matías Suárez in the last one. The result was not modified and left more concern in Núñez.
Banfield, who in this tournament thrashed Boca at La Bombonera 3-0, cut the streak and won at the Monumental after 12 years, remaining one point from the qualifying zone for the 2023 Sudamericana before Sunday’s classic with Lanús at the Florencio Sola and after the victory over Colón (2-1) the previous day. For its part, River will play against San Lorenzo in the New Gasometer.
Source: Ambito
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