Independiente rescued a 1-1 draw on their visit to Lanús, in a match in which they showed more drive than football but which allowed them to at least recover from the classic defeat against River. The locals took the lead through José Sand in the first half, but the visitors equalized through Leandro Benegas in an action in which Lanús claimed an offense against goalkeeper Fernando Monetti.
The beginning presented intense and balanced actions by both teams, with the purpose of achieving dominance over the other, especially in the gestation area. In that sense, without being clearly superior, Lanús was encouraged to prowl the visiting area with some attempts that did not prosper in the final decisions to hole the shots between the three pipes of the visiting goal. But that insistence had its reward when the Colombian Raúl Loaiza promoted an aerial pass between the lines, with the opposing defense badly stopped, so that the debutant Franco Troyansky assisted Sand, who did not forgive inside the area: with a subtle touch he overcame the resistance of Milton Alvarez.
Little by little Independiente grew, which in the last quarter of an hour of the first period knew how to take advantage of Lanús’ withdrawal, who settled too quickly for the advantage. Thus, the visitors generated their first clear arrival with a fast entry by Damián Batallini from the left, who, before Fernando Monetti’s exit, finished off wide over the crossbar. Then he had another with the charge of Benegas, whose shot was well neutralized by the Lanús goalkeeper.
In the complement, Independiente gave more push than game to his actions against a rival who proposed an orderly defensive device and who had a clear opportunity to increase the advantage through a shot by Troyansky that crashed into the left pipe of the goal. of Alvarez.
But by insisting so much, Avellaneda’s men found the loophole so that Benegas could mark the equality, with a faulty header that crossed the goal and went in at the far post, while all of Lanús claimed an infraction by Facundo Ferreyra on Monetti. In this way a tie was closed that rewarded the search of one and punished the lukewarmness of the other.
