Now those from Avellaneda, who are two points ahead of their escort, Boca Juniors, will have to wait for what happens next Thursday from 3:00 p.m. in La Plata, when the “xeneize” plays Gimnasia y Fencing for the remaining 81 minutes of the ill-fated match the 23rd date that was tied without goals.
An equality in that match will leave the path open to the title for Racing, something that they would achieve if they beat River Plate at home on the final day, since even beating Independiente, in La Bombonera, those from La Ribera could not reach it.
Contrary to expectations, it was Lanús, last in the Annual Table and penultimate in the championship, who took the initiative from the beginning of the match, becoming strong in the middle and controlling the ball against a Racing, first in both tables, which took time to settle on the field of play.
But as the minutes went by, the “Academy” tried to change the course of the match based on a positional advance that allowed them to get closer to the “maroon” area, although there they found the firmness of the local defense.
The last quarter of an hour of that initial stage then became a back and forth without identified control, with inaccuracies distributed by the rush of both each time they stepped three quarters of rival field.
On the side of the locals, the Colombian central midfielder Raúl Loaiza was their clearest player, and in the end the best on the field in that first period, since on the side of Racing there was no gravitating footballer in his actions, nor to the time to have the ball or when he tried to be more vertical and deeper.
A separate paragraph for that first half deserves what happened at 9 minutes, when that number appeared in the hands of the crowd of “garnet” fans who gathered at the Lanús stadium, asking for the renewal of the contract of whoever was carrying that number, the Corrientes striker Joseph Sand42 years old, today the oldest in activity in the first division (it expires next December).
The second period went from the beginning along the same path that it advanced towards the end of the first, with a friction game in the middle of the field, always away from the areas and without taking advantage from either side.
And as time progressed, the feeling of frustration was surely taking over the racing fans, those who, through a flag, went to send off the squad en masse when it left the central Savoy hotel for Lanús.
It is that just as the victory put it on the threshold of the title, equality left the “Academy” with few “a priori” possibilities, with the same points as Boca but with three to play against six of the “xeneizes”.
Nevertheless Racing, who missed the game generation of the injured Emiliano Vecchio and had no space for the gallops of Johan Carbonerohas a goalscorer who always appears at key moments, and today was no exception: Enzo Copetti.
The platinum former Atlético de Rafaela received a filtered pass from Matías Rojas open on the right in the 35th minute and from a closed angle “invented” the significant winning goal with a low shot, against the Uruguayan goalkeeper’s near post. William De Amoreswhich leaked between his left leg and the post.
Thereafter Racing he asserted himself defensively to expose his opponent’s offensive impotence and subtracting five minutes Copetti he began to limp and touch his right thigh, but Fernando Gago I no longer had any changes to make.
The only thing left to do was wait for the end, celebrate in a tight embrace, and wait for a dream, the one that could come true next Sunday, with three other greats like Boca, River and Independiente through.
formations
Lanus: Guillermo De Amores; Leonel Di Plácido, Matías Pérez, Franco Ortellado and Nicolás Pasquini; Luciano Boggio, Raúl Loaiza, Iván Cazal and Lautaro Acosta; Jose Sandy Franco Troyansky. DT: Frank Kudelka.
Racing Club: Gabriel Arias; Iván Pillud, Leonardo Sigali, Gonzalo Piovi and Eugenio Mena; Carlos Alcaraz, Aníbal Moreno, Leonel Miranda and Matías Rojas; Johan Carbonero and Enzo Copetti. DT: Fernando Gago.
Goal in the second half: 35m. Copetti (R).
Changes in the second half: At the start Jonathan Gómez for Alcaraz (R) and Francisco Mura for Pillud (R); 22m. Nicolás Oroz for Miranda (R); 28m. Franco Orozco for Cazal (L) and Mateo Sanabria for Troyansky (L), 39m. Maximiliano Romero for Rojas (R) and Jonathan Galván for Carbonero (R) and 41m. Brian Blando by Di Placido (L).
Admonished: Troyansky, Matías Pérez, Orozco and Di Plácido (L). Piovi and Mena (R).
Court: Nestor Diaz Perez.
Referee: Dario Herrera.
Source: Ambito
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