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South America drew 0-0 against Cerrito on the fourth date of Opening Tournament 2021. The “mailbox” received the cast of Roland Marcenaro at the Juan Antonio Lavalleja de Minas Stadium and the development of the game was conditioned by the state of the field, greatly decimated by the heavy rains.
After the match, Biaggio and Marcenaro were critical of the fact that the match was played under these conditions. The “Pampa” said: “It is very complicated when the field does not accompany you, you cannot play here.” And the visiting coach accompanied the statements by commenting that the state of the field of play was “a shame” and that, although they tried to put their idea of the game into practice, with the field like this “nothing could be done.
With this result, South America continues in fifth place with seven points and Cerrito is eighth with five units after four games played.
The match
The first 45 minutes were extremely even and the dispute over the game prevailed, so there were not too many offensive occasions for either team. The clearest play occurred seconds before the end and was for the “mailbox”: Giménez took charge of a free kick on the edge of the large area and finished just above the goal defended by Sellanes.
In the second half, the state of the playing field began to be more evident as a result of the rain and the game stalled, so much so that there were only two dangerous occasions in the 90 minutes; one for each side. The clearest was for number 31 of the auriverde team: Cruz overflowed the left sector and finished off in a powerful way to González’s goal, but the goalkeeper intervened with solidity to drown out the goal cry to the Marcenaro team.
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