Racing suffered, but beat Lanús and dropped him from the lead

Enjoy it, Piovi. Great goal, Piovi. Or simply, beyond the pun, Gonzalo Piovi. The defender, the one who was on loan at the time, who established himself since his last return to the club, one night invoked Rubén Paz and gave away a great free kick goal from those… From his foot was born and confirmed a triumph as laborious as it is important to settle better in the table. The Academy won it because it was much more in the first half and because it struggled in the second when its level dropped. He responded in terms of football and also in terms of spirit, two aspects that any team with serious aspirations should have.

It was a key commitment that Racing had ahead of. A rival like Lanús, who came undefeated with an ideal score and at the top of the championship, meant a good measure. The Academy was reunited with the operation of its best versions. A team that came out to push well up front with a lot of people on attack. With progress on the sides, good internal circulation, capitalization of spaces behind the backs of the flyers…

Carbonero accelerated and hurt. Nardoni controlled the times. Moreno bit in the middle. Maxi Romero left the area and pivoted. Matías Rojas threatened and fired a bomb that, after deflecting into an opponent, hit goalkeeper Lucas Acosta. It did not seem, Garnet, one of the leaders of the championship. It didn’t seem like it because Racing didn’t let it look like it, basically. He was pressing him, suffocating him. In that PT the Academy could have scored a little more.

The story was different in the final part. Racing fell into one of those gaps, lost the ball, began to give insecurities from the middle to the back in the defensive aspect. And Lanús was getting bigger. He charged in attack with more determination and looked for his double nine with air shipments already at that moment, knowing that Racing did not offer guarantees in the high game in his area. In fact, Grana’s goal came from set pieces, like the two that Tigre scored against the Acadé.

Gago’s team knew how to roll up their sleeves and put their hearts into the game in moments of strong leg, friction, and hot temperatures. He should have killed him before the match. He had counted on a very clear flip-flop to do it in the PT, but Matías Rojas defined poorly from the right in the area. Now without Rojas on the field (he came out due to an overload and with Moralez), the Acadé had a downturn in the game because he lost the ball and Lanús did not take advantage of those favorable passes. He had a clear one at the end, but also generated another very dangerous one Academia, which at that time was defending with a line of five due to the entry of Emiliano Insúa. Gago’s team needed such a relevant victory.