Racing won on the first date and wants to be the protagonist of the championship. Photo: Marcelo Carroll.
The Racing Club, just eliminated from the Argentine Cup by the Agropecuario, club of the First National team, will try to recover from the blow when it visits Godoy Cruz de Mendoza, for the second round of the Professional League (LPF).
The match will be played from 15:30 at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium, in Mendoza, with the presence of a “neutral” audience, which in this case will be the Racing fans, refereed by Facundo Tello and broadcast on television by TNT Sports.
Racing experienced 25 “tragic” days from a sporting point of view, being eliminated by Boca in the League Cup semifinal, by Uruguay’s River Plate in the group stage of the Copa Sudamericana and by Agropecuario in the Copa Argentina.
Everything good done by Fernando Gago’s Racing in much of the first half of 2022 has been shattered, the good game proposed by the “Academy”, the good individual performances and the becoming the “enemy” of River and Boca at the local level , were forgotten with three consecutive eliminations.
The race generally dominates the opponent, the rival goalkeepers almost always stand out, it generates many situations but does not have enough hierarchies to translate them into goals, and finally, the few times they reach him they score goals.
The advance of the midfielders offers large spaces at the moment of the counterattack to exploit for the opponents, a question that Gago is unable to resolve and which was clearly exposed before Agropecuario.
Undoubtedly, the injuries of Gabriel Hauche, Leonardo Sigali, Matías Rojas and Carlos Alcaraz influenced Gago’s plans, but this is no justification for such a football debacle and three consecutive eliminations, two of which were surprising.
On his debut in the LPF he beat Huracán in the cylinder (2-0) and the same coach explained to his coaches the need to aim for the title in the LPF, now that he will not compete internationally or in the Copa Argentina.
In Racing he joined as reinforcement Emiliano Vecchio (free from Rosario Central), who could go to the bank in Mendoza, and the management is looking for the Colombian Johan Carbonero, of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, and Maximiliano Romero, striker without continuity at PSV from Netherlands.
For now, Javier Correa, who will return to the Mexican Santos Laguna, and Nery Domínguez, who will go to the University of Chile, will emigrate.
Godoy Cruz made his debut with a hard defeat against Platense (2-1) to Vicente López, as “Squid” is one of the closest rivals in their fight to avoid relegation.
The team from Mendoza is penultimate in the ranking of the averages that will define the two reductions, only above Patronato, therefore it has the obligation to add the team led by the duo Favio Orsi-Sergio Gómez.
The races had a month to forget. Photo: Maxi Failla.
In Racing the return of Sigali, recovered from a tear, and Edwin Cardona is likely, while former Independiente goalkeeper Diego “Ruso” Rodríguez will make his debut in Godoy Cruz, as the replacement Roberto Ramírez has gone to Quilmes and the owner Juan Espínola He is on tour with his country’s team.
Additionally, Nelson Acevedo will play for Brunos Leyes and Ezequiel Bullaude for Tadeo Allende.
In the record between the two there are 23 games with the Racing advantage of 14 wins against five of “Tomba” and four draws.
+ Probable lineups +
Godoy Cruz: Diego Rodriguez; Nestor Breitenbruch, Gianluca Ferrari, Guillermo Ortiz and Franco Negri; Ezequiel Bullaude, Gonzalo Ábrego, Nelson Acevedo and Martín Ojeda; Tadeo Allende or Matías Ramírez and Salomón Rodríguez. DT: Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez.
racing club: Gaston Gomez; Facundo Mura, Leonardo Sigali, Emiliano Insúa and Gonzalo Piovi; Leonel Miranda and Aníbal Moreno, Fabricio Domínguez and Edwin Cardona; Tomas Chancalay and Enzo Copetti. DT: Fernando Gago.
Referee: Facundo Tello.
Basketball court: Malvinas Argentinas, from Mendoza.
Start time: 15.30.
TV: TNT Sport.
Source: Clarin
