The run hit fast and ended up in pain, but took the fifth win in the last six classics against Independiente.

Anxiety dominates under the sky of Avellaneda. Independiente is desperately looking for a draw. Racing is no longer played. Until the end and the explosion. And the contained cry of the fans, who filled the stands and immediately a second half of red domination. However, in recent times, and beyond the history boasted by Bochini and Alsina, smiles are usually blue and white.

The Academy win once again. As in five of the last six classics and with a goal that will be a legend, Gabriel Hauche’s Chilean. Therefore, the stadium is transformed into a bowling alley. With the complicity of that music that gushes from the loudspeakers, people sing, dance and forget the suffering of forty-five minutes they endured in Gastón Gómez’s gloves, in the firmness of his power plants and in the inefficiency of a rival he had liquidated in the first phase. .

The race went from imagining a win to wondering if he could have finished the evening in Avellaneda with three points. Independiente thought the Cylinder was coming at him, but he ended up fighting until the last moment. He deserved something more, it is clear, but consolation does not return at any table. And despite the attitude that the team showed in the complement, the second consecutive defeat, right in DerbyNothing more and nothing less.

The reasons for explaining the match will have to be sought in the wrong penalty by Enzo Copetti, which until then played at a high level. Racing had taken the lead with a pirouette of the Bad, extraordinary resource on a steady ball that comes from the right, when Joaquín Laso lowers Emiliano Vecchio and Fernando Rapallini charges the infringement. The Chaco man pointed to the stick. And when he left Independiente alive it had been much taller and the game featured the second goal.

By dynamics, by intensity, by unfolding, especially of its extremes, the Academy conditions imposed. This time, without collecting many passes. He was more direct and exposed the Independiente’s weaknesses to the sides. Especially from the sector of Damián Batallini, who did not end up expelled because Rapallini did not make the decision of the case.

Bad time for the former Argentinos Juniors striker, to whom Eduardo Domínguez has entrusted the task of collaborating with Lucas Rodríguez to cover the projections of Facundo Mura, but above all to contain Hauche. However, he not only lost the duel against the line; I have been warned committed an infringement on Hauche and the World Cup referee kept the second yellow card. The coach understood that Rapallini could hardly forgive another foul. Then, he sent Leandro Fernández to the field.

Racing played aboard the usual 4-3-3, albeit a little more explosive. Each time Eugenio Mena, Tomás Chancalay or the Badthe academy was unbalanced.

Independiente disturbed only in that period with some firm balls produced by a dangerous tendency that Racing had: committing fouls very close to the area. With Lucas Rodríguez as executor, he did not take advantage of Sergio Barreto’s good aerial play. The man from Formosa has won twice in the area Gastón Gómez, but without power and precision.

The second half was completely different. And Domínguez made a change that improved his team: Tomás Pozzo for Gabriel Hachen. The question, therefore, has to do with initial formation: Why didn’t Fernández and the boy, clever and daring, play from the start?

The truth is Independiente handled the ball, became strong in the middle with a high level of Lucas Romero and gained ground in the racing field. However, it had no purpose. On Pozzo’s corner kick at the near post, Fernández nearly equalized. There is a mid-range shot by Iván Marcone. Y chila Gómez covered two barbarian balls. One by Chucky Ferreyra and another by Romero.

The independent had problems to solve in the area. Alex Vigo has failed a lot in every center. Racing fought with Jonathan Gómez -inserted by the injured Vecchio-, with Carlos Alcaraz, who also joined in the second half, and Aníbal Moreno, who got up after a faded first half.

Copetti was punctured after the penalty and Johan Carbonero entered badly. That’s why there was no counter. But Racing ended up celebrating, which widened Independiente’s wound. In short, the classics are won. And the development and the context, It didn’t matter much to those fans who walked away happy by Mozart and Corbatta.