Atlético Tucumán is sweet. Against Estudiantes de la Plata he had speed and ingenuity to attack and order to defend, and he deservedly won the match 3-1 that allowed him to climb to the top alone.
The La Plata team made mistakes in the middle and in defense that were very well capitalized on by their rival. The great figure was Mateo Coronal, who is a player of Argentinos Juniors and came on loan. He scored the first goal, made an exact pass on the second, and participated in almost all of his team’s attacking maneuvers.
The scoring was opened at 26 minutes in a surprising counterattack play. Lost the ball in the middle Jorge Rodríguez, Master Puch boy put it in depth and Colonel, after a hitch to pass his mark, he hit the low shot that leaked below the body of Andújar, He did not put up much resistance.
So far the team led by Lucas Pusineri, As he usually does, he prioritized the defensive order and crouched waiting for the possibility of capturing a ball in the middle, to find the rival badly stopped. And that, precisely, That was what happened with Coronel’s goal.
The tie came at 41 when Leandro Díaz headed in a cross from Manuel Castro. Nothing to do for Marchiori, Lampe’s replacement who traveled with the Bolivian National Team. What’s more, before that goal Marchioni had masterfully stopped a shot from Diaz at point-blank range, in a play that could have ended with a goal by Boselli, who took the rebound but missed the shot on goal.
Tucuman Díaz, who played several seasons at Atlético and is a self-confessed fan of that club, apologized to the public that a while before he had received him with an ovation, the same as coach Zielinski, much loved in those payments.
In the first half there was, in addition to these arrivals, another one from Coronel who was hand in hand with Andújar, but instead of touching to the side he hit hard in the middle, the body of the goalkeeper. In the second half, Estudiantes began to lose control of the ball, the game became messy and in the troubled river came the two goals from the homeowners.
Lotti picked up a pass from Coronel in the middle and made it 2-1. The play had been born in a long ball that Morel combed opening the possibility of arrival. A while later Lotti made it 3-1 with a well-executed penalty against one of the posts. the move it had originated from Mas’s mistake.
Atletico Tucuman He took two points from Boca, is the only leader and has Patronato, Platense, Racing (in Avellaneda) on the horizon, Central, Union and Defense and Justice. “We are missing six finals”, say the players. The illusion is gigantic.