04/08/2023 3:03hs.
A nightmare mode ride for Racing. From the time they arrived at the Bogotá airport, the night before the game, what could go wrong did go wrong. It all started with that unusual coincidence that delayed the squad: The members of the Colombian Airport Police were looking for a fugitive named Francisco Gómez who has the same name as the young third goalkeeper of the Acadé and there was confusion and delay until everything was clarified. And the nervousness, the upsets, the bad drinks, continued later in the Atanasio Girardot stadium, with a crazy game, a game that Racing lost by a landslide, they overcame it until they managed to get 2-3 enough to come to the Cilindro much more fully and yet they ate the fourth, in the 50th minute. An excursion through Colombia full of confusion, bad resolutions, clumsiness and horrors. That’s why Gago’s face at the end of the game. A face that said it all. Absolutely everything.
What happened so that after that almost miraculous 2-3 came the blow of 4-2? “We were trying to have positions so that what finally happened to us would not happen. An error puts us back in a situation of one more goal for the rival”, The coach explained that, precisely, after that 2-3 he made signs from the side to order the team. It is that Racing was a defensive disaster, especially in the ST. This one from Gago is a very vulnerable team: they have scored 36 goals so far this semester (16 from set pieces).
How did the coach analyze it? “In the first half they had no shots on goal. The only time they kicked was the stopped ball from the goal. Later, in the second half, we had very bad positioning of concepts. And those errors in this instance are paid dearly ”.
Regarding Roger Martínez and his (good) debut, he clarified: “He has a few days of work, which is why he entered the ST. He had been idle for a long time. It was already agreed that he would play those minutes”.
Beyond a night to forget at the Acadé, with emotions on the surface, Gago closed: “I trust the team. We are going to put up a lot of fight in the next game to be able to pass”.
The match analysis
The final courage, a medal that ends up stained by clumsiness, by lack of intelligence, by the emotional overflow of not having understood the miracle, of having wasted it. After all, Racing He persisted in his eagerness to lose alone, of compromising the series beyond the two goal difference, which at one point was only one, but conceptually closer to a win against. A team like that, that shoots itself in the feet, can’t get very far…
Gago’s little jumps, open hands, body language of non-conformity was quite a message. Nobility obliges: the coach went through grumbling mode even when his team seemed at the beginning the best planted in Atanasio Girardot although of course, perhaps the DT saw the glass half empty: He already noticed that his team’s was a territorial rather than a conceptual domain.more hypothetical than real, more in form than substance. Altético left him the field and the ball, but his idea was not to throw back to counterattack, but to wear down Racing, forcing him into an error. And wow if he came out.
The Acadé had a vocation for research, but it lacked imagination, options, some conviction. Be careful, the local did not have leftover cloth either. In fact, the first shot on goal was the goal, more by accident than by his own virtues: Piovi combed the free kick from Moreno and Cristian Zapata, who took it ahead and converted.
From then on, Racing went for the draw, but without play or intensity. To top it off, Atlético Nacional took advantage of a mistake by Martirena in the middle and found the second after a cross from Moreno that Jefferson Duque pushed through. From there, Racing was exposed to the rout due to his emotional outbursts, guided by a Gago who piled up forwards and exposed a defense that was already weak in papers. Atlético Nacional’s third goal was almost a gift: first, Tagliamonte ignored the goal kick and they almost scored it. Not satisfied with that, the third came from that corner, without anyone, but nobody, marking Cantera.
The 0-3 had the series in therapy and Racing in crisis. But in five minutes, he made two penalties that Piovi’s coldness turned into a miraculous 2-3 wherever you look at it. Be careful, Racing looked for them, burned the ships, left the skin. The unusual thing about the case is that he did not understand that it was enough, that this result was like winning, but no. A long pitch found Piovi and Rojas going to the ball and covering the same man, but they released Cantera, who received and stung it like crack. The series, from the numerical point of view, is not lost. But it will depend on Racing, if he can master the impulse to hurt himself before the opponent on duty
2023-08-04 03:03:50
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