Tigre started the Copa Sudamericana with the wrong foot

Tigre fell at home against San Pablo, from Brazil, 2-0, in a match corresponding to group D of the Copa Sudamericana disputed tonight in the Buenos Aires town of Victoria.

The goals of the team led by Rogerio Ceni the young striker converted them Erison on two occasions, in a second stage that had the visitors as exclusive dominators.

For the same group, Sports Tolima defeated, as a visitor, to Puerto Cabellofrom Venezuela by 2 to 0, in a match played in the city of Valencia.

Tiger It was more in the first half, but he couldn’t translate it into the net, while in the second half a rearranged Saint Paul he took it ahead.

Tiger started with a line of four and trying to seize the ball to get out quickly with long passes to Mateo Reteguiwhile Saint Paul He was waiting for him with a line of three centrals.

In the first minutes, Tiger made the visiting goalkeeper shine raphael with shots at the second play of corner kicks. The visiting team comes with some inactivity because it was left out of the definition of the São Paulo tournament and awaits the start of the Brasileirao.

In addition, the team led by the former goalscoring goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni He arrived suffering from the disease of absences like that of the Argentines Jonathan Calleri and Giuliano Galoppothe Uruguayan Gabriel Nevesthe Venezuelan nahuel ferraresi and the locals Costa, Anderson and Diego Costa sizesamong the usual headlines.

Mateo Retegui also made work raphael on a counterattack, but the goalkeeper excelled at retaining the ball when it seemed to escape from under his body. Then Facundo Colidio he kicked from outside and the ball went near the base of the stick. Tiger he took advantage of the nervousness and inaccuracies of the visitors.

In addition, those led by diego martinezThey won the ball when they pressured visiting midfielders and sometimes defenders, who were also clumsy with the ball at their feet.

The first half was in the hands of the locals who could not beat the São Paulo goal, while those led by Ceni sought to accommodate and stop the attacks, with some arrivals in Gonzalo Marinelli.

In the second half, Ceni he united the ranks of his team, compressed it and propelled it 20 meters forward. The visitors took over the game, began to handle the ball, triangulate and create actions. While Tigre entered asleep.

At 11 minutes, Saint Paul He recovered the ball in his field and in three touches he put a striker face to face Marinelli and so Erison He took advantage of the counterattack and defined from a distance before the goalkeeper left and the ball went in with a little jump, to give the visitors the goal.

In the San Pablo game it was key that the Ecuadorian jhegson mendez raised his level, seized the ball and began to make his teammates play, well accompanied by david and nestor. But also the sides Araujo and Nathan they became laners since they began to attack often and that caused Tigre to receive them in numerical inferiority.

A few minutes later, San Pablo launched a counterattack and the ball was received by former Botafogo player Erison who, with his bulky body, quickly pushed the defenders off him, ran parallel to the area line and hit it from there, the ball touched on the defender Emmanuel Aguilerahe got up to Marinelli and to fall from the mouthpiece, inside the arch. Tremendous forcefulness of the visitors who, in the stage that managed the game, captured it in the rival goal.

From there, San Pablo handled the game with a lot of self-sufficiency and experience, while Tigre was a bundle of nerves, in which Martínez made the changes very late.

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