Tiger defeated, locally, Velez Sarsfield 2-1 in the successful debut of their new coach Juan Manuel Sara, and further complicated the institutional situation of the Liniers club, at the end of a match in the 21st. date of Professional League (LPF).
In the city of Victoria, the team from the northern zone ended a streak of six games without winning in the local tournament, in the middle of which the technical director Diego Martínez lost his position, with goals from Aaron Molinas (the former Boca Juniors scored for the first time in his career) and Miguel Brizuela against, while Elías Cabrera discounted for the visitors.
For his part, Those of Liniers have gone 13 games without winning in a local tournament and have only won 3 games in the current tournamentand his coach Marcelo Bravo has not been able to modify the malfunctioning of the team.
In addition, Vélez arrived at the José Dellagiovanna stadium, with his internal climate shocked because threatening graffiti appeared in the Orthopedic Center headed by its vice president Adrián Peláez in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Luro.
The graffiti read “Out with the Crusade. Resign or there will be bullets. Chorro$”, in reference to the group headed by the current president Sergio Rapisarda, called the Renovating Crusade. The Board of Directors of the Liniers club repudiated the episode and filed a police complaint.
In Tigre he made his debut as DT Juan Manuel Sara, former striker for Almirante Brown and Nueva Chicago, who had an extensive tour of Europe where he played for Dundee, in Scotland, Coventry City, in England; Reggiana, from Italy; Shelbourne from Ireland; Vaduz and Locarno, from Switzerland; Lucerna, from Spain to finish in Ferro, in Argentina.
As a coach, his first job was in 2021 at Deportivo Maipú, Ferro and Estudiantes de Caseros, after having been Diego Martínez’s field assistant at Tigre, during the promotion campaign.
Tigre started much better, since his players seemed to have rediscovered the script they always had with Diego Martínez, high pressure, good handling in the middle, walls and triangulations.
While Vélez exhibited the same problems of the last months as the little weight in the midfield when it comes to recovering the ball, the defensive slowness and the lack of judgment when attacking.
The first half was entertaining, both teams had a couple of arrivals, but while Tigre showed a lack of precision in the last pass, Liniers’ men showed great anemia when it came to creating plays in the rival field.
In the second half, Marcelo Bravo sent Lucas Pratto and the youthful quickie Lenny Lobato, grandson of the great vedette of the 70s Nélida Lobato, to the field to worry Sara and all of Tigre.
The match showed arrivals from both teams and in that initial period Leandro Burián stood out with a double cover against long-distance shots.
When the first quarter was over, Mateo Retegui jumped to one side, received a lateral, turned, overflowed and hit a low cross that Aaron Molinas sent into the back of the net, and thus scored his first goal in the First Division.
A couple of minutes later, Vélez put several players in the area, defenders and visitors fought for the ball, among them Lenny Lobato who stole it and threw a cross that Elías Cabrera sent to the front of the net.
Sara made changes and Tigre recovered playing volume, although the match was back and forth with a lot of work for Gonzalo Marinelli and Burián. One of the changes was the entry of the youthful Ezequiel Forclaz, another short, quick and dribbling player, who in the 43rd minute picked up a ball, overflowed and entered the area.
Tigre’s youth faced and put a very devilish rastron center, and it was given what the manual says, since Miguel Brizuela wanted to cut and sent it inside clumsily. The defender had joined Liniers’ team a few minutes before by Diego Godín, who suffered a muscle injury.
Immediately, Sara assessed that a win was important to lift the spirits of her players, so she ordered the entry of defenders and recovery midfielders to guarantee victory.
Source: Ambito
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