04/30/2024 10:31 p.m. Updated on 04/30/2024 10:38 p.m.
The experienced and most reliable goalkeeper for the penalty shootout was Sergio Romero, the one from Boca. In the other side, Matias Mansilla, formed in the Ascenso, at 28 years old. And the one of Students He was left with all the lights and emotion of qualifying for the League Cup final, by saving the shots of Cavani and Figal, while Merentiel’s hit the crossbar.
“The truth is, first of all, happy for all the people who supported us, I come from Ascenso, these moments are valued twice as much. Happy for the people, the group we have, phenomenal, the greatest ones who lead the way. We came to look for the final and we achieved it,” said Matías.
“In the first half we didn’t play well, we didn’t do what we had been doing, but we are Students, heart, determination, work. When things aren’t good we don’t give up,” he was proud
“Day-to-day life at the club… you don’t have your family nearby and the club embraces you, the cooks, the people who work every day. We are a family, we lift our plates, they are small things that make the club great “, he claimed.
Also, he talked about the definition. “We had studied Cavani, he does not have a fixed penalty. We analyzed with my teammates what he could do, I thought that, I went for that (…) With Corti, with Juami, with Fabri, we debated with all of them,” he stated.
Afterwards, ESPN defined the machete that it had on the part of the coaching staff to define where to shoot in the penalties.
Mansilla’s machete in the penalty shootout against Boca (ESPN capture).
“This is a dream, a search for, I work every day for this. Thank God today it was given to us and all of this is crazy,” he confessed, still on the field at the Kempes Stadium.
“The things I went through during promotion make you value being in the First Division. The first thing in my mind is my family. I dedicate this to them,” Matías concluded.
The definition by penalties
Mansila’s celebration (AFP). Matías Mansilla saves a penalty. Estudiantes (Fotobaires).
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