River won it until the third minute of injury time, when it defended the meager advantage achieved in the first half in its own area, but this Vélez with good feelings every time he faces him, as in the recent round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores, tied 2-2 and allowed the Liniers night to once again be sweet for the locals and bitter for those of Núñez.
Because the match had its immediate antecedent happy for Vélez and sad for River due to the fresh cup reminiscence in which Liniers’ men have just eliminated Núñez’s men in the round of 16 of the Libertadores.
Although this is another contest, another story, and for this reason there was no possible revenge attitude, nor any claim for achievements, the match was played as if all that were alive at the José Amalfitani, where the large local public was at least able to enjoy of a very good game, emotional from end to end, beyond the result and some chants reminding Marcelo Gallardo’s team of the elimination.
A Gallardo that due to the recent death of Héctor David Martínez’s grandfather decided to revive a central defense that gave him so much satisfaction in particular and River in general: Jonatan Maidana and Javier Pinola.
The return of the latter, 39 years old, forced by the aforementioned fact, however, provided good results for the “millionaire”, because Pinola had an efficient job in the center of the rear, especially when his former teammate Lucas Pratto prowled there .
Later, when the “Bear” threw himself to the sides, especially to the left, it became an insoluble problem for Milton Casco, just like the one Francisco Ortega suffered on the same side with a Santiago Simón who also returned to being “the one before “.
Barely five minutes passed before “that” Simón overflowed from the right and launched a low and precise center into the center of the small area so that Lucas Beltrán, entering without a mark, converted his first goal since returning from Colón.
Vélez continued to appeal to his more direct game than River’s and had a couple of situations to draw, generated by Prato and in some cases also aborted by Walter Bou.
until over 20 minutes the former Boca received a criminal foul from Franco Armani and took charge of it, achieving parity and his fifth personal goal against River.
The two of them had already smelled the smell of blood and went for it all, actually as they had started, and just 10 minutes later there was another good offensive combination from the visitor that ended with another assist, this time as a center forward and a header, from Simón for Nicolás De la Cruz, which the Uruguayan resolved with a right volley against Lucas Hoyos’ left post. .
The final quarter of an hour of that first stage did not undergo variations in the development, with both teams always looking for the local to draw and the visitor to capture in the net those moments of superiority that they exercised when they had the ball in their possession.
And in the same tone the entire second stage also passed, until the 45 minutes were consumed, although with some “spicy” moments, surely the product of some remnants of those two cup battles.
But the positions of both teams changed with the passing of the minutes and the initial physiognomies were inverted, since Vélez was the one who ended up taking possession of the ball and River the one who, in the absence of it, opted for the most direct game, appealing to some against to settle the lawsuit.
But in those decisions, the one that prevailed was that of Vélez, who ended up literally putting River against his goal, until he ended up defending himself, strangely because it is not natural to see the “millionaire” there, within his own area.
Y After moving the ball so much, the team led by the Uruguayan Alexander Medina reached the deserved parity when they had already exceeded 90 minutes through someone like Abiel Osorio, who had not been able to score in the Libertadores round of 16 series and this time he did take revenge by pushing the goal inside the small area after a good personal management from the right by Nicolás Garayalde who defined himself from the left.
And the celebration then was all Vélez’s, because of the final equality and because after three matches, River could never beat him, since the “Fortín” won once (1-0 in Liniers) and drew goalless in the following in the Monumental.
In any case, the two did not even reach double digits in the sum of points in the championship after eight dates, although River is in South American positions in the Annual Table. Vélez is also far from that, but his presence in the Libertadores quarterfinals heals any domestic wound.
