The Argentine Academy won it with an unexpected resolution in Buenos Aires. (@Libertadores / Twitter)
Racing de Avellaneda beat Aucas from Ecuador 3-2 in an entertaining match for the 2nd date of Group A of the Copa Libertadores 2023, played this Thursday at the Presidente Perón stadium in Avellaneda.
Maximilian Romero (12′), Juan Nardoni (16′) and wilker angel (86′, against) scored the goals for the Academia Albiceleste, while Eric Castillo (48′) and Luis Canga (56 ‘) reduced distances for the Ecuadorian formation.
The two finished the match with 10 players, since maxi moralez (78′) and aubrey david (90+4′) they saw the red card in each team.
racing went over aucas Like a whirlwind as soon as the match began, there was nothing to score before the minute, with a smooth shot from Maxi Romero that hit the crossbar and stung from the outside.
With a lot of dynamics in their movements, the Academy moved the ball and kept up the pace of the game at will, and began to visit Hernán Galíndez’s area frequently, since Aucas couldn’t get hold of the ball and just tried to resist.
⚪️? That’s how it opened @RacingClub marker! A header from Maximiliano Romero gave the Academy the initial advantage over @Aucas45 ⚽️?
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That is why it was not surprising that the opening arrived, in a good clearance by Piovi over the midfield, the winger opened to the left for Gabriel Rojas, and he sent a cross into the middle of the small area, where Maxi Romero entered with pure power to open bookmark.
The Ecuadorian team did not react and immediately the second fell, in a good pass from Guerrero for the arrival of Romero, who eluded Galíndez and assisted Nardoni, who touched towards the empty goal.
Everything belonged to Racing, who could have scored the third goal in a penalty by the hand of Cangá that the Uruguayan Christian Ferreyra sanctioned, but the referee annulled that sanction at the behest of the VARand curiously, from that moment Aucas began to come out of the siege and improved remarkably.
⚪️? Pass from Romero and goal from Nardoni! This was the 2⃣-0⃣ part of @RacingClub in view of @Aucas45 in the Avellaneda Cylinder ???
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brave reaction
the DT Cesar Farias He moved the bench with two changes at halftime and those variants proved him right, because Aubrey David from Trinidad showed speed and ease to open the game on the left side.
The discount came through that sector, in a good play by Castillo, who made his way between three defenders at full power, and defined with a left-footed cross shot, and that discount left Racing cold, who did not expect that thrust.
Aucas took advantage and reached equality shortly after, from a long free kick from the left, when Aubrey David entered from behind everyone to the left and sent the cross that Luis Cangá sent into the net entering the near post, to the desperation of an obsessed Racing.
?? The goals of @Aucas45! Castillo and Canga scored for the Ecuadorian team in the 3⃣-2⃣ loss against @RacingClub in the Cylinder ⚽️??
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Without the lucidity it had had in the first half, Racing regained its leading role, but the game got dirty, with many fouls that cut short the development, the game became lackluster, and even the coaches Farías and Fernando Gago they got into an unusually angry argument with each other.
Even with ten due to the departure of Moralez, expelled at the request of the VAR Due to a stomp on Cangá, Racing was looking for victory, and ended up finding it with a wink of fortune, which was also bad luck for Aucas.
With four minutes to go, Mura sent another cross at the height of the penalty mark, Wilker Ángel, in an attempt to clear, headed back and did not see Galíndez, who had come out to clear and was left halfway, so that the ball entered the visitor’s fence tamely.
In a duel that became much more complicated than expected after 30 minutes in which they had done everything to score goals, Racing added three points that confirmed it at the top of the group, and Aucas, who had just surprised Flamengo, left an interesting image, beyond the fact that he had to leave Avellaneda empty-handed.
RACING GOAL!! Wilker Ángel headed back and scored A GOAL AGAINST. Win Racing 3-2 in the Cylinder at the end of the game.
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