Defense and Justice defeated from home to Tiger by 2 to 0 and is the leader of Zone B of the Professional League Cupin a meeting corresponding to the fifth date of this Argentine competition.
Florencio Varela’s “Halcón” won with so many Lucas Pratto and Nicolás Tripicchioboth with a header in the second half, and thus reached 9 points and is followed by Newell’s, which with one game less, has eight points.
Defense and Justice achieved this victory days before the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana semifinals, on Wednesday, September 27, where they will face Liga de Quito in the Ecuadorian capital.
The local team opened the field on the left with Alexis Soto, Gastón Togni and Nicolás “Uvita” Fernández who came out to play and opened holes by taking the rival defenders. While Tiger since the arrival of Lucas Pusineri sought to become strong from the middle from the position of Agustín Cardozo and Lucas Menossiit seems that José Paradela and Alexis Castro They will generate actions and feed the Uruguayan Renzo Lopez and to the Paraguayan Blas Armoa.
Defense and Justice began to surround Tiger and made work Santiago Rojas with shots of Tripicchio and Santiago Solari, after rich collective plays. The local team suffered a loss when half an hour into the first half Uvita had to leave the field due to muscle discomfort thinking about the semifinals for the Copa Sudamericana. In his place came the experienced Lucas Pratto.
For the second half, Julio Vaccari He saw how the injuries modified his initial plan since he had to send to the field Gonzalo Castellani by Julian Malatiniand decided to bet on the line of three, due to the low offensive weight of the visiting forwards.
The local team started better with a shot from Santiago Solari that covered red, and I take the rebound Togni who crashed the ball into the post, at a time when Tigre was a trembler. A few minutes later “Beto” Bologna He excelled against the Tigre players by preventing the scoring from opening.
The technicians appealed to their replacements and that favored Defense and Justice They have to start showing power and numbers when entering the rival field. After a very good play, the local team had a corner that Soto executed and placed on the head of Lucas Pratto who scored the first goal for Halcón.
The team of Vaccari He was marking a superiority and expressed it in the 39th minute when he had another stopped ball, this time a free kick, from the left of his attack, and this time Soto put it on the head of Tripicchio who scored the second goal.
Referee Facundo Tello consulted the VAR due to doubts about an offside by the local footballer and after a couple of minutes he validated it, to widen the difference in favor of Vaccari’s disciples.
In the minutes that remained, Defense and Justice took possession of the ball and removed the dangers from the goal defended by Bologna, bringing in Dylan Gissi to reinforce the defense, while Tiger He languished in midfield, as those led by Pusineri had a poor performance.
The victory confirms Florencio Varela’s football project and rewards the work of Julio Vaccari and his team, who are fighting three tournaments with a short budget.
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