SAINT PAUL,
Env. especial
By MARTIN CABRERA
In the previous one the tie was a good result. It was signed, but seeing how the game unfolded and the missed goals, the 0-0 score for Estudiantes in their visit to Red Bull Bragantino leaves a positive balance but not enough to go out and honk. It seems to be more team and, if the forecast is maintained, it will define in La Plata the passport to the round of 16 of the Copa Sudamericana.
In the first half, Estudiantes was more than its rival and only due to the lack of effectiveness in the final meters was it not up on the scoreboard. All the effectiveness that he showed against Platense less than a week ago he suffered last night in Brazil. Shots on the posts, good saves from the rival goalkeeper and balls that passed very close to the goal, scenery left by Pincha on the wet playing field of the stadium.
The local started better, with the intention of handling the ball and opening the field wide, with many people on offense. But as the minutes passed, it began to show problems in the transfer and inaccuracies that Estudiantes quickly discovered.
That is why it began to grow, to let go and lose “fear”. Leo Godoy began to be the arrow on the right and the kid Benedetti formed good partnerships with José Sosa, a third midfielder with a vocation to always join the attack.
At 7 minutes it was Bragantino’s rudest mistake: a back pass that was not for anyone in the white shirt but for Mauro Boselli, he ran 20 meters with the ball and defined a post before Cleiton left. Generally those plays end in a goal, but yesterday he hit the right post and on the rebound Fernando Zuqui threw it hard and high over the crossbar.
Since then he has been a member of Estudiantes, with Corcho Rodríguez owning the middle and cross passes always at the foot. Godoy overflowed more than four times on the right and just because those plays did not have a good resolution, a team that really deserved it in the first half did not take the lead.
At 29 minutes the most discussed play of the night took place. Cross from the right and Mauro Boselli’s shirt was pulled from his body. From the audience, a clear penalty was seen that the captain and his teammates blamed the Colombian referee Carlos Ortega. The judge and the VAR did not understand it that way and the game continued. Just in case, the local goalkeeper played the ball so fast that it didn’t even give rise to an exaggerated discussion.
Boselli himself had it once again and Benedetti almost shouted his goal with a shot with a swing from the left to the far post, from below. For very little and due to Cleiton’s good response, it did not end up inside the net.
It wasn’t until the end that he was encouraged to go on the attack again, pushed by a very angry DT for what his players had done and an audience that even recriminated with whistles. A shot from outside by Lucas Evangelista was the closest to the goal.
In the complement, Pincha came out with the same mentality but without Boselli, who arrived with some discomfort and was punished in the match. Mauro Méndez replaced him, with other characteristics but a lot of intensity and desire. The new forward had to play with a team a few meters further back in the field and with less voracity for pressure.
The wear began to be noticed as the minutes passed. Although he maintained the 3-5-2 scheme, he no longer stepped on the rival field so much and Bragantino began to enlarge, especially after a pumped header from Evangelista that Sappa saved from a corner. In soccer, when one of the teams is beaten or tired, the other knows it. And he tries to make a profit.
He reached 7 units, the same as Bragantino, with whom he will play again, but in ONE
To take advantage of that shipment, Caixinha sent Sasha and the Colombian Mosquera to the field. Domínguez, for his part, stayed with his players and reproached Méndez and Rollheiser several times for not taking advantage of the spaces for the counterattack, the only method he had left to get closer to the opposite goal.
That is why when 30 minutes had been played, he decided to give Matías Godoy a court instead of the exRiver. With that income, look for some speed and be able to take his team to the area in front of him in a more vertical way and with fewer combinations: the physique no longer gave him more. None of his income gave him a step forward compared to what he had on the field, perhaps that is why he did not rush for variants.
Although they did not suffer too much, Estudiantes never again managed to recover the authority of the first half. He was waiting for some counter and trying not to look bad in the setback, as happened when José Sosa lost a ball on the right, with Godoy already in offensive position. Or the fall of Benedetti. They all found a huge Pepi Sappa, also responsible for the tie.
VIDEOS. Martin Cabrera from Brazil
