Independiente and Argentinos bored everyone

This afternoon, Independiente tied Argentinos Juniors without goals in a poor match corresponding to the fifteenth date of the 2024 Professional League, which was played at the Libertadores de América – Ricardo Enrique Bochini stadium.

Two goals from the Argentinos forward were disallowed Gaston Veron for offside. On the side of the Avellaneda team, the midfielder Federico Mancuello he hit the crossbar with a header in the final minutes of the match.

The first arrival was from Argentinos Juniors at 15 seconds of the match, since the left back Roman Vega He advanced with the ball under control and played a pass back to the midfielder Alan Lescanowho shot over the crossbar.

Furthermore, before the first minute of play, the midfielder Francis MacAllister He pressed, recovered the ball on the edge of the area and shot at goal, but his shot was not accurate.

At 19 minutes came the first of the disallowed goals. The midfielder Nicholas Oroz He filtered a good ball for Verón to run on, who beat the goalkeeper Rodrigo Rey in the one-on-one, but he was in an offside position.

Twelve minutes later, Verón would see his own goal disallowed for the second time. The forward Jose Herrera He put in a great cross to the far post from the right, which Verón headed in against Rey’s leg but, once again, was offside.

The first risky play of the second half was for the Paternal team and, once again, at the feet of Gaston Veron. After a good combination between the midfielders Alan Rodriguez and Nicholas Orozthe former Racing player set up Verón, who shot at the second post and forced a good save from Rodrigo Reyto divert the ball to the corner.

Independiente did not shoot at goal until the second half’s added time, when they had two chances. In the first minute of added time, midfielder Rubén Martínez shot from the edge of the area and the ball deflected off his teammate Federico Mancuello, ending up in the hands of goalkeeper Diego “Ruso” Rodríguez.

A minute later, the clearest chance of the match came. Midfielder Iván Marcone sent in a cross from the right that confused “Ruso” Rodríguez: the goalkeeper came out late and was beaten by the header of striker Santiago Hidalgo, who set up Mancuello but the experienced midfielder’s header hit the crossbar and went wide, in front of a goal blocked by two field players.

In a dull match, in which the main dominance was of the visitors, Independiente tied the score again, but did not have a clear lead until the end of the match and was booed by its fans.

With this tie, Independiente is in fifteenth place in the Professional League, with 18 points, and thirteenth in the annual table, two points away from qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana.

For its part, “El Bicho” remains in eighteenth place in the championship, also with 18 points, and remains in 9th position in the annual table, qualifying for the Sudamericana with 44 points.

Synthesis:

Result: Independent 0 – 0 Argentinos Juniors

Stadium: Liberators of America – Ricardo Enrique Bochini

Referee: Facundo Tello.

VAR: German Delfino.

Independent: Rodrigo Rey; Federico Vera, Kevin Lomonaco, Joaquin Laso, Adrian Spörle; Felipe Loyola, Ivan Marcone, Lucas Gonzalez; Santiago Montiel, Gabriel Avalos and Santiago Lopez. DT: Julio Vaccari.

Argentinos Juniors: Diego Rodriguez; Kevin Coronel, Francisco Alvarez, Tobias Palacio, Roman Vega; Alan Rodriguez, Francis MacAllister, Nicolas Oroz; Alan Lescano; Jose Herrera, Gaston Veron. DT: Christian Zermatten.

Changes in the first half: 11m. Jhonny Quiñones for Federico Vera (I) .

Second half changes: 13m. Santiago Hidalgo for Jhonny Quiñones (I) and Ruben Martinez for Santiago Montiel (I); 17m. Emiliano Viveros for Nicolas Oroz (AJ) and Maximiliano Romero for Gaston Veron (AJ); 29m. Santiago Rodriguez for Jose Herrera (AJ) and Fernando Meza for Roman Vega (AJ); 32m. Federico Mancuello for Lucas Gonzalez (I) and Alex Luna for Santiago Lopez (I); 35m. Ariel Gamarra for Francis MacAllister (AJ).