Lucas Beltrán gave Fiorentina the victory: another former River scorer who shines in Europe

Lucas Beltran he scored the goal with which his team, Florentinedefeated Monza 1-0 away, in one of the matches that started this Friday 17th of the Italian Serie A championship, which sees the Viola team qualify for the Champions League.

In the 8th minute of the first half, the Monza defenders entertained the ball too much with their goalkeeper, Beltrán went to press, stretched out, cut off a pass and the touch took the ball into the back of the net.

In the second half the midfielder enters home Valentino Carbonialready called up to the Argentine national team by Lionel Scaloni and Javier Mascherano (Valentín and his brother Franco, who was on the reserve bench and did not come on, are the sons of Ezequiel “Kely” Carboni, former midfielder of Lanús, Catania and Red Bull Salzburg, who today manages the Monza reserve).

On the Fiore bench was the former Rosario Central striker Gino Infantino but he didn’t come in either.

Lucas Beltrán is adapting to the Italian Serie A and is adding starting minutes after injuries (Nico González, for example) and the departures of other attackers in the squad. In the Italian championship he already has three successes after beating Salernitana (3-0) and Hellas Verona (1-0); and he has two more for the Conference League.

The Cordoba native follows in the footsteps of Julián Álvarez – both scorers at River – who scored a brace for Manchester City in the Club World Cup final on Friday.

In another match the Argentine defender Federico Fazio He scored one of the two goals with which his team, the last Salerno team, drew at home against Milan 2-2.

THE Red-black They took the lead with a goal from English defender Fikayo Tomori, but in the 41st minute of the first half Salernitana had a corner in their favor which Fazio looked for at the near post and hit a strong header which ended with the ball inside the ‘objective.

The second goal was scored by midfielder Antonio Candreva for the Maroons, who introduced former San Lorenzo midfielder Agustín Martegani in the second half, while Serbian striker Luka Jovic (formerly of Fiorentina who gave way to Beltrán) scored the equalizer at minute 47.

Argentine midfielder Luka Romero was on the Milan bench (already called up by Argentine coach Lionel Scaloni), but he did not come on.

Previously, in Tuscany, Lazio had beaten Empoli 2-0 away and this had allowed them to get closer to qualifying for the European cups. The Roman team, which included the Argentine striker Valentín Castellanos in the second half, won with goals from midfielder Mattia Zaccagni and French midfielder Matteo Guendouzi.

In another match in the city of Reggio Emilia, Genoa beat Sassuolo 2 to 1 as guests and thus moved further and further away from the relegation zone. The goals for the Genoese team were scored by the Icelandic striker Albert Gudmundsson and the Ghanaian Caleb Ekuban, while Andrea Pinamonti scored a goal.

Serie A is led by Inter with 41 points, followed by Juventus (37) and further back are Milan with 33 and Fiorentina with 30 points.