River coach Marcelo Gallardo suffers adverse numbers at the Independiente stadium. However, with the victory in Avellaneda, that situation began to be reversed. The coach had only won once.
With the victory by the goal of Matías Suárez, he adds two wins in six games played. The rest were three losses and a draw.
The first time he visited that court was on October 4, 2015 and lost 3-0 against the team led by Mauricio Pellegrino. In December 2016 it lost again 1-0, and at the end of 2017 it was again a 1-0 loss. In September 2018 they equalized without goals, and finally in January 2020 they won 2-1.
The scorer on this occasion, Suárez, considered that “the match was won well. I think we always went looking for the goal, the victory, and in the end it happened so that it was my turn to convert”.
And he added: “In the second half, as we saw, everything was done to win and in one play, a bit lucky due to a couple of detours, I was left to define and to take three very important points.”
The Cordovan, regarding the recovery from all the inconveniences and operations he had on his right knee, indicated that he is “very well. Marcelo (Gallardo) is taking me little by little, and with these minutes that I have to enter I am gaining confidence and more when I have to convert”.
The former striker from Belgrano de Córdoba, who had not converted since April 28 in the success against Colo Colo from Chile, for the group stage of the Copa Libertadores, with the goal against Independiente he added 34 and reached the line of the Uruguayan Rodrigo Mora, as River’s sixth top scorer in the Gallardo era. “The statistics, the numbers are important, and for me that I received all the trust from Gallardo since I arrived at the club, that is the best way to thank him,” Suárez acknowledged at the end.
