Atlético Tucumán lost a great chance to temporarily move one point behind the leader of the Professional League, Boca, by wasting a Ramiro Carrera penalty kick when injury time was played, in what would have meant his team’s victory over Rosario Central, with the one that ended up drawing 1 to 1 in the framework of the 25th. and penultimate date of the contest.
UFFF! ZAPATAZO of another party of Buonanotte for the 1-0 of #RosarioCentral on #AthleticTucuman on the #ProfessionalLeague. They surprise the Dean!
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– ESPN Argentina (@ESPNArgentina) October 14, 2022
The stories are generally told from front to back, but in this case it deserves to be narrated the other way around, because in the last six minutes of the meeting everything that Tucuman wanted and needed happened, but it was in that brief period that it went from illusion to the disappointment of the huge crowd that once again filled the José Fierro.
It is that at 39 minutes the young player Ignacio Maestro Puch appeared to put the head to a center from the left to tie the match that the “Dean” was losing from the 24 minutes of the first half due to a goal from the most promising figure that It has the team led by Carlos Tevez, the boy Facundo Buonanotte.
AND THE DEAN’S TIE HAS ARRIVED! Maestro Puch pushed her and scored 1-1 for Atlético Tucumán against Rosario Central in the #ProfessionalLeague.
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– ESPN Argentina (@ESPNArgentina) October 14, 2022
From that point on, the field definitely leaned towards Gaspar Servio’s goal, which was going to become the stumbling block that could prevent Atlético Tucumán from reaching the first title in its history and even stay out of the Copa Sudamericana, since with the parity reached the last one that is entering, Defense and Justice, which surpasses it by goal difference.
It is that Servio, who later disdained his colleague Carrera with his comments, was going to save a penalty just after 45 minutes, in a sanction that referee Silvio Trucco took at the request of the VAR, who observed a hand inside his striker area of Rosario Central, Jonathan Candia.
There the joy and enthusiasm of an Atlético Tucumán ended, which fell in the last presentations in which it also lost with Patronato and Racing Club and is now three points behind Boca when it has two games left, while the ” xeneizes” is missing three because he has pending the one from La Plata against Gymnastics and Fencing.
The next date Atlético Tucumán will receive Unión on Monday and Rosario Central will visit River Plate in the last match of its coach, Marcelo Gallardo, at the Monumental stadium.
GASPAR! Servio saved a key penalty from Carrera in the #ProfessionalLeague.
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— SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) October 14, 2022
This is the epilogue of a story that began with Buonanotte’s aforementioned left-footed goal and a draw achieved before the end of the first stage by Augusto Lotti for the Tucuman team, which was also invalidated at the request of the VAR.
A tale told backwards and forwards that ended up having a bitter taste for the “Dean” right and left. Rosario Central, with a very weak campaign, may have ruined a magnificent season today for Lucas Pusineri’s men.
