Racing enjoyed a crazy party after his big win against Atletico Tucuman, until his striker Enzo Copetti appeared to draw a striking sentence: “Yes, we are going to be champions”, he declared as if to contradict the superstitious. There is the Academy, with its valuable triumph and with its words, giving flight to its dreams…
It happens in the Argentine league. Racing wants to discuss the title with Boca. And he sits in that position with his football reasons. Fernando Gago’s team, in a mediocre tournament, full of grays, is the one that takes the most risks, the one that proposes the most.
Sometimes, he defends badly and pays for it. Sometimes, it protects itself better and crowns an interesting production that includes the verb to win. The best Racing emerged on the scene against Atlético Tucumán, who if they won would recover the lead and take a difference of six points, something that would have ended the illusions of champion of the Academy.
In a full cylinder, very early, at 5 minutes, the footballer of the sentence, Enzo Copetti, broke the tie and gave Racing peace of mind. He did it taking advantage of an unusual mistake by goalkeeper Carlos Lampe, who had saved the Tucumanos several times but last night he gave the ball to Copetti in an outing so that he only had to push it into the empty goal.
Racing knew how to hit another opportune blow at the end of the initial stage, through Eugenio Mena, who scored the second behind two walls with Emiliano Vecchio and with Copetti. And then the Academy held that 2-0 until the end. Then the phrase of his number 9 would come…
Racing’s smile with justice, with no room for discussion, came on a Monday that closed the date 24 with four other games: Argentinos 1 – Hurricane 1, Rosario Central 0 – Defense and Justice 0, Students 3 – Lanús 1, Central Córdoba 0 – Newell’s 3.
Now Racing reached the escort line together with Atlético Tucumán with 44 points. The leader with 45 units is Boca, but with one game less. Attentive with 41 River and Hurricane appear. Then, with 40 Gymnastics, although with a pending clash. Precisely that clash that xeneizes and triperos owe is the game suspended due to the incidents in La Plata. If Boca wins, he will escape. If Gymnastics is definitively imposed, the Argentine league will deliver an ultra-close finish in its three final dates. Although for Copetti it seems to be a detail…
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