Vélez Sarsfield (5) wasted an unbeatable opportunity to return to victory as a visitor and ended up drawing 1-1 with the local team Atlético Tucumán (2), in the game that closed the fourth round of the Professional League tournament. (LPF).
At the Monumental José Fierro stadium, the team led by the Uruguayan Alexander Medina was headed towards obtaining the three units, with a goal from the Paraguayan José Florentín (St. 4m.).
However, in injury time, in a defensive inattention, Atlético achieved parity, with a conquest of the Paraguayan Marcelo González (St. 49m.)
Vélez did things better during the first stage. With the criteria of the kid Elías Cabrera (with barely a handful of matches in the First Division), the projections of Tomás Guidara on the right and what Lucas Janson forced with his continuous movements in attack, the “Fortín” gave the ball a more thorough treatment .
Vélez will face Boca this Saturday at 9:30 p.m. at the José Amalfitani stadium, while Atlético Tucumán will visit the top Defensa y Justicia on Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
The truth is that, in line with what he has been able to show so far in the championship, Liniers’ team suffered from the lack of completion of maneuvers: he did things well up to three quarters of the field and then that better action vanished.
Even so, the cast of “Cacique” Medina had their chances to decree the opening with a header from Florentín, which went wide; or a free kick from Cabrera, who found a rebound on the wall and almost missed the goalkeeper Marchiori.
Atlético Tucumán was a grimace of what he knew how to exhibit in the last tournament. A slow team, without rhythm. In addition, the ‘Dean’ was stunned in the defensive block when the rival pressed him high. The best of the venue occurred when Mateo Coronel was able to prevail over the right sector and generate some inconveniences for the Ortega brand.
In the second period, Vélez was able to hit the first one he had: a free kick from Cabrera that reached the head of the Paraguayan Florentín, who spiked from behind and submitted the goalkeeper Marchiori. The VAR review, which evaluated a possible advanced position, delayed the validation of the conquest.
The Uruguayan Diego Godín, who returned to official activity after the Qatar 2022 World Cup, retired injured with a calf injury
The disadvantage did not speed up the reaction of the “Dean”, who continued with the same errors and the same inaccuracies. On the contrary, Vélez seemed to be better organized with the income of Bou and Julián Fernández. In short, he bet on a 4-4-2 and was prepared for the counter. A shot off the crossbar by Florentín deprived the visitors of celebrating the second.
The Uruguayan Diego Godín, who returned to official activity after the Qatar 2022 World Cup, retired injured with a calf injury and led to the entry of the kid Valentín Gómez. Pratto’s entry also revealed DT Medina’s strategy: possession of the ball to supply in a lunge and try to settle the story.
It almost happened at 37m, when the forward assisted his teammate Janson and the former Tigre sent her up from a favorable position.
Atlético, stubbornly but lacking in clarity, prowled the area of the Uruguayan Burián in the final minutes and sent crosses from different points.
And in one of them, at 49m, when the local fans were already appearing resigned, a ball into the area that the Velezano bottom could not clear allowed the appearance of Paraguayan Marcelo González, who hit it incorrectly, pushed it into the goal and decreed 1-1
Liniers’ team, which could not defend itself with the ball in the final stretch, was left with 5 units in the standings.
On the contrary, the Tucuman squad accumulates just two points, along with Banfield, with which it appears only above Colón de Santa Fe, Arsenal and Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero.
Vélez will face Boca this Saturday at 9:30 p.m. at the José Amalfitani stadium, while Atlético Tucumán will visit the top Defensa y Justicia on Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
Synthesis
Atlético Tucumán: Tomás Marchiori; Hernán De la Fuente, Bruno Bianchi, Yonathan Cabral and Matías Orihuela; Adrián Sánchez, Guillermo Acosta, Joaquín Pereyra and Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez; Mateo Coronel and Marcelo Estigarribia. DT: Lucas Pusineri.
Velez Sarsfield: Leonardo Burian; Tomás Guidara, Diego Godín, Miguel Brizuela and Francisco Ortega; Elías Cabrera, Nicolás Garayalde and José Florentín; Santiago Castro, Abiel Osorio and Lucas Janson. DT: Alexander Medina.
Goals in the second half: 4m. Florentin (VS); 49m. Marcelo Gonzalez (AT)
Changes in the second half: 20m. Walter Bou for Cabrera and Julián Fernández for Castro (VS) 21m. Ignacio Maestro Puch for Estigarribia and Marcelo González for A. Sánchez (AT); 28m. Cristian Menéndez for Ruiz Rodríguez (AT); 30m. Renzo Tesuri for De la Fuente (AT); 33m. Lucas Pratto for Osorio and Valentín Gómez for Godín (VS); 35m. Braian Guille for Cabral (AT); 43m. Juan Ignacio Mendez by Janson (VS)
Incidence in the second half: 50m. expelled Pereyra (AT)
Reprimanded: Cabral, Acosta, Bianchi (AT) Garayalde, Brizuela, Pratto (VS)
Field: Monumental José Fierro (Tucumán).
Referee: Nazareno Arasa.
