A solitary goal from Leandro Díaz reached Lanús to beat Heinze’s Newell’s well

With music the brown fans say goodbye. They come down dancing from the stands. All is happiness in the Fortress and this stadium’s nickname has never been better. After all, close Saturday with a victory, fourth in a row on this field, the third in the last four dates. And he does it with a performance that leaves him waiting in the cup standings.

Newell’s will return to Rosario full of concern. And perhaps defeat is the least of his problems. Nothing came out this Saturday night in Cabrero and Guidi. He didn’t kick Lucas Acosta’s goal. Only two warheads, very weak. Subsequently, he held possession, but had no depth or weight in the box. The changes also didn’t work for Gabriel Heinze.

Lanús was far superior, especially in the first half. With order, intensity and explosion on the wings, especially on the right sector with Pedro De La Vega. He canceled Newell’s outing. It forced him to slip guard on his central midfielder, Juan Sforza, and found no avenues for Lucas Acosta’s goal, with the exception of Angelo Martino who starred in a duel with Juan José Cáceres. The only dangerous situation generated by Rosario’s team was precisely on a cross by the winger-midfielder that Facundo Mansilla headed with difficulty and ended up between the local goalkeeper’s gloves.

Newell’s he turned out to be very stubborn in insisting on a method that yielded no results. It is clear that any strategy is valid. Now, if the schedule doesn’t work, can’t you switch on the fly? He played much longer with Lucas Hoyos than with Sforza and it is a testament to his lack of starting. Lanús pressed, recovered and wounded.

And the goal came after an unforced error. An infringement in the middle of the field and a free kick that opened the doors of the host goal. Luciano Boggio’s expedition arrived, Cristian Lema won in the sky of the area, the ball reached the position of Cáceres and the naturalized Paraguayan launched a kicker that Leandro Díaz found to overcome the resistance of Hoyos.

Lanús took the lead and Newell’s was no longer able to react in the first half. Aboard a 4-3-3 in which De La Vega started from the right and the Franco Orozco-Juan Sánchez Miño tandem from the left, he dismantled the bottom of the Rossoneri team, dressed in white tonight.

Good behavior by Colombian Raúl Loaiza. Lanús should have finished with a more comfortable result early on. He had five more chances: a mid-range shot from Boggio just high, a one-on-one from De La Vega that he couldn’t resolve against Hoyos, a header from Boggio after a good maneuver from Orozco and Sánchez Miño, a Díaz from midfield who almost surprises the Newell’s goalkeeper and Lema’s free kick that explodes on the crossbar.

Newell’s failed to balance the game during that time. Their forwards were weightless, Lisandro Montenegro was very inaccurate and there was always a grenade shirt to cut through traffic.

The victory led to a light show at halftime. And applause for Lanús’ return to the field, which could have made room for the second cry of the evening, when Sánchez Miño left the Boggio one-on-one with Hoyos, but the goalkeeper won. And the curly-haired Uruguayan, the most active, enabled Díaz in a counterattack that could have been lethal, but once again the guest goalkeeper was stopped.

Heinze moved the bank with three simultaneous changes. He tried to be deeper with Ramiro Sordo on the left. He added dynamic midfielders with Guillermo Balzi and David Sotelo. Lanús finally gave up the ball. Frank Kudelka has refreshed the midfielders who have worn them down a lot: Boggio and De La Vega have left, Julián Fernández and Matías Esquivel have come on.

But Newell’s was harmless. He barely generated a header from Pérez Tica in the hands of Acosta. Very little for so much possession. And if it hadn’t been for Hoyos, who also saved the admitted Troyansky’s shot, a worse result would have come back for Rosario. Lanús, on the other hand, enjoyed himself. And not just for that Díaz goal that opened the game.