Under the tight fixture proposed by the Apertura Tournament, this Sunday Newell’s played again and suffered a defeat against Boca in La Bombonera for the third date. In a scenario that has been very hostile for the last 12 years, the red and black team fell 2-0 and continues without victories in the championship, after losing in the debut against Talleres and drawing in the Coloso with Independiente.
The goals of the Úbeda team were scored Lautaro Blancoin the first stage, and the steering wheel Leandro Paredesfrom a penalty, at the beginning of the complement. The game for Lepra ended with the first rival goal, which ended exposing the worrying lack of ideas and play of the Orsi-Gómez duo team,
The duo’s bet was to add a forward –Walter Núñez– to accompany Cóccaro and close the midfield bands with Luciano Herrera and Guch. The double five was the same as against Independiente, with Rodrigo Herrera and Gómez Mattar, as well as the last line.
From the outset, Newell’s put high pressure on Boca to try not to let him get out comfortably, especially from the good footing of Paredes. But when the rival managed to escape the siege, the eleven leper footballers immediately sought to stay behind the line of the ball to defend in a short block.
With that order and effort the red and black team was able to reduce the xeneize gamealthough in half an hour they already had three reprimands (Luciano, Rodrigo Herrera and Gómez Mattar). The premise was to be on top of Paredes and Ander Herrera, to force the Úbeda team into longer searches that, in general terms, were resolved with skill by the central defenders.
Little happened near the arches. Arias blocked a faulty volley by Ander Herrera on the left pipewhich he defined without a mark inside the area and then blocked Ascacíbar in a play in which he went hand in hand. On the other side, Luciano Herrera failed to connect with his head a ball that hit him in the body and then passed near Marchesín’s right post.
In a very close game that Leprosy seemed to have under control, a starting error in the middle cost them a deficit on the scoreboard at the end of the first half. Blanco took it from Guch, Zeballos escaped with a dominated ball and with the opponent open and opened to the left to the former Central wingerwhich He touched it subtly above the red-and-black archer. It was 1-0 in La Bombonera.
Orsi and Gómez read that Newell’s needed changes for the complement and decided the income of Hoyos and Sotelowith the intention of adding weight in attack and containment in the middle zone, now without Gómez Mattar who was reprimanded in the initial stage. For his part, Úbeda sent the Paraguayan to the field Angel Romeroone of his reinforcements.
The Guaraní striker was decisive at the beginning of the second half. After a long delivery, he held the ball with Salcedo’s mark on it, but the leper defender grabbed him by the shirt and referee Herrera sanctioned a free kick.
When Paredes was about to kick, the judge was called by the VAR to indicate that the defender’s foul had been on the line of the large area. That is to say, it was criminal.
The world champion midfielder himself was in charge of transform it into 2-0 for Bocaamidst the claims of Newell’s technicians for the arbitration decision. In the sequence it is observed that there is a struggle and that Salcedo began to take his shirt outside the areabut ends up doing it over the line.
Despite the changes, Boca’s second goal was a knockout blow for the Rosario teamwho went from being close to a tie to having to go in search of overcoming a 0-2 deficit, already with much less legs and physical rest due to the wear and tear in the first stage, but fundamentally with very few offensive ideas.
The Úbeda team was closer to widening the difference than Newell’s was to the discount. Thus, the Rosario team fell again as a visitor and accumulate a single pointas a result of the tie at the Coloso against Independiente for the second date.
