The match was raised between two teams that fight for places in the different international cups, one more comfortable like Vélez with the Libertadores and the other tighter like Argentinos with the Sudamericana.
Within this context, those of Liniers knew that with a point, considering the great possibilities that River will be champion next Thursday, they were in the Libertadores next year, while for Argentinos the situation was more complex.
It is that at the start of the Argentine game, it was four points from Defense and Justice, the last one that is entering the South American 2022 with the same score as Gimnasia and Esgrima La Plata but with a better goal difference.
Racing is located two points below those of Florencio Varela and La Plata, so even with the aforementioned River’s most probable title and if Boca Juniors “leaves” from the South American to the Libertadores, if they win the Argentine Cup, a space that in the last three dates that the contest will be missing after Thursday, will unleash a struggle between all those mentioned so as not to be left empty-handed in 2022.
The first half was therefore consumed in a train of speculation that did not do the show well at all, nor did it do the prospects of both in the short term.
In the second half the question changed, because, driven by Argentine circumstances, he went in search of the three points, and like all Gabriel Milito’s team, he does it the only way he knows, which is by playing well with the ball at the foot. that resulted in the benefit of the development of the collation.
But about half an hour and when those from La Paternal approached the Lucas Hoyos arch, the captain of the visit, Miguel Torrén, vehemently protested a foul that he was awarded with a yellow card and all when in fact it had been committed. his rival, the entered Juan Martín Lucero, and when “pechar” to the referee Hernán Mastrángelo this one showed him the red one.
Lucas Pratto’s debut immediately took place on his return to “Fortín” and in the next play a center in the middle of the Argentinos area where Torrén should have been defending was connected headlong by Lautaro Gianetti to begin to lead the victory of his team.
But the finishing touch would come in the third minute of discount, when Luca Orellano rubbed the lamp and opened the ball for Lucero, who touched the middle so that Pratto, almost falling, put the second and final goal of the match.
The “Bear” Pratto, who on December 6, 2014 played for the last time with the blue “V” and on November 29 of that year made the last double against Defense and Justice in Florencio Varela, ended up becoming the great attraction of the happy night of the Vélez fan in Liniers.
“I want to thank this club after they left me lying in various places. They opened the doors for me not because of what I won but because of me,” said Pratto before hurriedly retiring to the locker room to, as he said, “not start to mourn”.
And so the ellipse closed after a start to the game full of emotion for the tribute to Diego Maradona, since Thursday will mark the first anniversary of his death and therefore, beyond the formations of both teams and the applause of throughout the stadium, the Argentine players came out with a shirt with their surname on the chest.
Source From: Ambito
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