The goals of Florencio Varela’s “Halcón” were converted by Walter Bou and Franco Paredes while Enzo Copetti discounted a penalty, in a match that had 45 minutes of high voltage in the second half, when all the actions took place in both areas.
Defense started with a very high pressure, supported by the recovery of Hachen and Kevin Gutiérrez and the climbs of Benítez, who also showed his punch and precision.
For its part, Racing Fernando Gago looked orderly, safe and waiting for the moves of his rival.
At 7 minutes Aníbal Moreno, one of the best of Racing in this year “of skinny cows”, stole and put a long pass to Lisandro López that overflowed and put a center into the small area and Mauricio Martínez wasted because he took the ball .
At 21 minutes, Defense had his first chance when Hachen hit a flawless pass between the lines to Bou, who defined above Arias but defined the far post and the ball went very close.
While Rotondi brought out his dribble and his speed to pass Cáceres, overflow and put a precise cross into the small area and Arias showed off in a formidable way by covering the definition of Pizzini, who arrived at full gallop.
Racing returned the blow in the 41st minute, when Lisandro overflowed again, but this time from the left and put in the center for a definition without stopping it from Chancalay, which Unsain contained with great effort.
At 47 Racing almost got the goal, when a center from the left arrived, Unsain flew but lost it and Lisandro López fell and tried to define, but the goalkeeper recovered and managed to pocket it.
In the first minute of the second half, Cáceres complicated a Racing exit with a long pass to Arias that Bou captured, dribbled the goalkeeper and defined very calmly, scoring his fourth goal in the championship.
Sebastián Beccacece’s talk at halftime had an effect because Defense adjusted the marks and the pressure and in 5 minutes of the second half reaped good dividends. Hachen hit a good shot from the edge of the Racing area, the ball hit the crossbar and the recently entered Paredes defined the far post, overcoming Arias’s resistance.
Gago responded to the 2-0 by taking out side Cáceres and placing forward Javier Correa, to increase the offensive pressure, and left a line of three in the background with Prado, Sigali and Mena.
But the Bou-Rotondi-Merentiel offensive trio began to work for Beccacece, which caused another arrival with clean passes: the ball led to Paredes, who hit him hard and this time Arias did cover.
It is that with the line of three, Racing lost the dangerous rises of the Chilean Eugenio Mena and the offensive trident of Varela’s men was opened and forced to play very open to Sigali and Prado.
Faced with this picture, Gago moved the bench again to regain the line of four with Iván Pillud for the inconsequential Matías Rojas.
Racing regained its air and expectations, when at 27 in the second half Copetti stole a ball from the visiting defense, faced the area, Colombo knocked him down and the referee Germán Delfino charged a penalty that the former Rafaela changed for a goal.
The discount seemed to center Racing, which began to come up with ideas, with Garré and Lisandro López as standard bearers, in addition to Nery Domínguez, although Beccacece made changes, managed to cool the game and turn off the sudden warm air of Racing, who could not tie and added his second fall followed by the hand of Gago.
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