Independent This Tuesday he achieved his first success of the year, after the setback last Saturday against San Lorenzo, by overcoming 3-1 a Workshops at the UNO stadium in La Plata in his second presentation in Group B of the Summer Tournament. Reduced by injuries and absences -even Eduardo Domínguez had to refrain from directing due to covid-19 symptoms-, the Red went from minor to major and ended up enjoying, for the last time? by Alan Velasco, author of a double the same day that the club announced that it will trade him to GC Dallas.
The first half was even: Alan Soñora threatened with a free kick and Junior Arias responded; Soñora had another and, at 42 minutes the T, with the debut on the bench of Ángel Hoyos, put the first with another debutant, Matías Esquivel, through a cross shot. But immediately, at 45 minutes, Andrés Roa was in a similar position in the other area and also defined low and to the far post for the tie.
The plugin had much more action. Matías Sosa warned with a header for the Cordovans but, at 15 minutes, Gastón Togni recovered against Rodrigo Villagra and enabled Velasco for the second. Villagra himself immediately put Red’s debutant goalkeeper, Renzo Bacchia, to the test, and at 26, Independiente once again showed off their pressure up front to recover and for the admitted Carlos Benavídez to assist Velasco, who resolved low and to the right of Guido Herrera.
The morale of the T ended up collapsing at minute 32, when Julián Malatini earned a direct red card for stopping an advance by Velasco, and finally Benavídez almost scored with a shot from outside the area that dislodged the goalkeeper with a deflection.
In the end, Independiente crystallized as a fair winner in a night of doubts about what was to come.
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