The tip is lava. It seems. Atlético Tucumán left her several times at the mercy of the rest of her pursuers but still continues to have her, and alone. Hurricane He had the chance to win and be the only leader of the Professional League, although the 1-1 against Barracas Central left him there, looking at ATU still from below.
And the reality is that the desire that the Globe had to be in 1st place collided with its own mistake (Quílez’s mistake at 0-1) and with the impossibility of finding a way to harm a rival well closed behind . A distribution that sustains him in the fight -also in the cup classification zone- although he could not make the jump. The next one is another key stop: a visit to Boca in the Bombonera…
Guapo’s idea was to bother, to block the creative societies of the Globe by planting compact railway lines from the middle of the pitch backwards. And the play went too well for the visit at the beginning because it not only forced Huracán to end up betting on the aerial game or stopped ball in the face of the impossibility of breaking from below -the clearest, Cóccaro’s header that Arce contained- but that in the last of the PT he found an unexpected goal. Or at least, little sought after…
Because Ismael Quílez played against his instinct and ended up complicating Merolla with a very strong back pass: the ball bounced off the center-back and then it was all thanks to Facundo Mater, a winger who last night acted as a midfielder and managed a self-pass! spout! and he broke Chaves’ bow. Bombshell to the illusion. The effectiveness of Barracas against a Globe that did not have Cristaldo inspired and that on the right tried with Benjamín Garré and Santiago Hezze, although they never managed to be incisive.
Diego Dabove understood that his team needed to be deeper and that Cóccaro needed company so as not to have to spend it pivoting and being in the mass and in the procession at the same time… That’s why the DT split the middle (Hezze out) and He added the kid Enzo Luna in attack, who entered with enthusiasm and contributed substance. In this way, what the Globe achieved was not greater clarity in the search, but it did end up cornering a rival who held on as long as he could, delegating exclusively to the skillful Valenzuela the chance of some counterattack.
But what has been said: the locals once again bet on the aerial blow -the roads below were still closed- and it was their captain Merolla (a specialist) who won in the small area -Arce’s weak reaction- and faced it to the net. A goal that changed the spirits in the Ducó, which generated some enthusiasm to think about turning it around, although that was as far as it went.
The feeling is that a defeat would have been too much punishment for Huracán, and at the same time that a victory -Was Sepúlveda’s hand in the ST free kick a penalty?- It would also have been too big for him. It was a point without a point…
