Instituto de Córdoba achieved an important victory by beating Newell’s Old Boys from Rosario 3-1 at home, who had just been eliminated by the Argentine Cup on Wednesday against Claypole, from the First C, in a match of the 5th date of the Professional League of Soccer, which was played at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium.
The winner’s goals were scored by Santiago Rodríguez, 21 minutes into the first half, Adrián Martínez and Gastón Lodico, from a penalty, while Bruno Pittón scored for the visitors 18 minutes into the match.
The “Gloria” with this victory reaches eight points in the contest, in which it seeks to consolidate its return to the category, while the “Leprosy” completed a week to be forgotten and remains with seven points in the mid-term batch. board.
The local team played a very good first half, with control of the ball and with the intention of looking for the rival goal from the beginning, an objective that they achieved thanks to the correct collective work, with good work by Roberto Bochi and Gastón Lodico in the middle, like the most prominent in recovery and distribution.
On the other side was a disoriented Newell’s, dull and clueless. He still looked battered by the surprise elimination in the Copa Argentina during the week, against Claypole in the round of 32.
Instituto, meanwhile, did its job well and thus managed to take the lead with Rodríguez’s goal, who took advantage of an empty space on the left side of the attack and before entering the area, took a cross shot that ended up in the back of the net for the 1 to 0, when 21 minutes were played.
The “Gloria” was not satisfied with the advantage, and although it always remained very orderly in the last line, it did not give up going for more.
That’s why he put the game in the rival field, and that’s how it was that in a corner from the right he increased the advantage, when the first half was leaving a powerful header from Sebastián Corda came, which Lucas Hoyos covered very well, but left the rebound for the middle , where Martínez entered to push with his head, in a goal that Silvio Trucco validated after a VAR review.
The expected reaction from Rosario did not appear in the supplement either, and after fifteen minutes of play Facundo Mansilla brought Rodríguez down when he was stepping on the area and it was a penalty for the locals, who kicked Lodico with precision for the 3-0 score that seemed definitive. .
But Pittón’s header came to discount and give Heinze’s men an illusion, who seemed to react in the following minutes, emboldened by the goal.
And although the best minutes of the leper came, it was thanks to the desire and an improvement in the attitude of the players, but without ideas or football arguments to once again disturb the goal defended by Jorge Carranza.
The minutes followed one another, Instituto had it for 4-1, but at the request of the VAR Trucco annulled what there was a new conquest, which Gabriel Graciani scored.
This situation put out the good moment of Gabriel Heinze’s men, who later continued searching, but they were not very clear and collided again and again with the strong local defense and with the goalkeeper Carranza who responded every time he was called to participate.
With the consummated triumph before the good amount of public that arrived at Kempes, a stadium used because Ricardo Arjona gave his shows on the Alta Córdoba field this weekend and it could not be used.
In the continuity of the competition, Instituto will visit Independiente next Sunday, while Newell’s will seek recovery before its people when it receives Barracas Central on Saturday.