Gymnastics took advantage of the mistakes of Racing and the collapse of the VAR to win a courageous match

It looks like a concert. Fans light up the stands with the flashlights of their phones. And they sing, happy for the triumph of a team, they have the music of the goal. That Racing benefits every time it is out of place. Once, twice, three times. They are unforced errors, individual collapses. Then there are the virtues of the artists. From Eric Ramírez, pure power. By Ramón Sosa, of great dynamics. From the German Brahian, who has a glove on his left foot. The Academyinstead, it is a scattered bunch of wills. At first it was anything but an orchestra, but it sounded good right up to the edge of the stage. He ended up defeated, for the fourth time in the last six games, and full of questions.

Obviously, it is impossible to avoid that game that could have changed the course of the game. Very clear penalty of Oscar Piris on Enzo Copetti. A moment earlier, Yael Falcón Pérez had warned the captains that the VAR had stopped working. The referee, without Ezeiza’s support, made a mistake. And the nerves ended up taking control of Racing, which did not end up beaten because the technological support was fixed with a few minutes to go and canceled the fourth, the work of Ramírez.

When the players fail, little is seen towards the bench. Any proposal, however good it may be, succumbs to the faults of those who sweat the shirt. And just when Fernando Gago’s team were playing at their best, they found themselves at a disadvantage.

First, Gastón Gómez failed. After a five-minute siege of the arch of La Plata, the other Gómez, Jonathan, lowered Lautaro Chávez. And Alemán’s free-kick, a center that the goalkeeper wanted to collect, slipped between his gloves. And from that corner kick, once again masterfully executed by the Uruguayan, Gimnasia’s goal came. Sosa anticipated, chila Reflexively blocks, but Ramírez takes advantage of the rebound to inflate the net.

Gago had changed the scheme and an interpreter. The presence of Eugenio Mena in place of Edwin Cardona is fundamental. Because he was embodied in an extra steering wheel aboard a 3-4-3 that he lined up on the sides. The Chilean threw himself to the left and Facundo Mura, to the right. In this context, and despite the premature blow he received in La Plata, he tried to be profound. Fast, dynamic, sharp and direct, without many laps, Racing has overwhelmed Gimnasia.

And when the sides didn’t overflow, the internal play flowed. With a good articulation of passages that had more gravitation on the left with the tandem made by Gómez, Gonzalo Piovi and Mena. And when it couldn’t be done from the outside, Matías Rojas tried to go diagonally, always with Enzo Copetti as an attacking beacon.

It was the man from Chaco, with the strength of a bull, who scored the equalizer. Gómez hit a ball from the center circle and the “9” beat Leonardo Morales with the body of him. The defender hesitated, Oscar Piris didn’t cover and when Rodrigo Rey grabbed the ball, he pinned into the far post of Mendoza’s goalkeeper.

Gymnastics showed more aptitude than associated play. Beyond Alemán’s punch, he had intensity with Chávez on the right and Ramírez requiring a blue and white defense that stops almost in the middle of the field. All a symptom of the Academy’s offensive attitude, which went all the way, but found no answers in the area. Even if the biggest problems were not in the center, but on the flanks, where Mura, in particular, fell back badly.

And the moment it looked like the second for Racing could come, Mura pushed Ramírez almost into the baseline. A meter away, Yael Falcón Pérez did not hesitate. Alemán, left, scored the 2-1 for Gimnasia.

Gago sent Fabricio Domínguez onto the field. Rojas was injured, again. Emiliano Vecchio came in and almost equalized him with a corner that tried to be Olympic. The ball hit the crossbar. And the party broke up. Also the VAR. And Falcón Pérez did not see Piris’ penalty on Copetti. And the spaces flowed before Racing’s desperation. And again Gomez was wrong. He gave away a ball that forced Piovi to fail. And Alemán did not spare a punishment.

Gago’s response was Cardona, slow, without changes of pace, not very influential. And gymnastics flew. It didn’t finish 4 to 1, but it was close. The ride was stunned. While waiting for the reinforcements to change face he doesn’t stop being slapped.

The goals of the match