A little taste was left for Racing in its goalless draw against Belgrano. He searched a lot but found little, despite the fact that he used different ways to break the defensive wall of the people of Cordoba. He tried with the overflow of the always restless Johan Carbonero, with the deep passes from Maxi Moralez or Juan Ignacio Nardoni, with the associated plays through the middle, with centers to the heart of the air and with medium-distance shots.
Precisely his best opportunity in the entire game came with a shot from MatÃas Rojas. The ball was so violent that it hit the crossbar, hit the line, hit the crossbar again and came out. That play occurred in the best passage of the local team over the middle of the first half. In that period, Maximiliano Romero masterfully chipped the ball over the exit of Nahuel Losada and sent it to the bottom of the goal, but the VAR drew lines and erased the smiles of the fans. A little later Leonardo Sigali anticipated Losada’s hands but once again the VAR intervened to mark the defender’s minimum advanced position.
Unlike Racing, Belgrano liked it a lot because he got what he was looking for: a point that adds up if one thinks that his main objective for the year is to maintain the category. The team technically directed by Guillermo Farré retains the base with which he was promoted, with a few additions. The coach arranged a line of five (Carlos Compagnucci, Erik Godoy, Alejandro Rébola, Nicolás Meriano and Lucas Diarte) that gave him good results despite the fact that it was the first time he chose that system. At the start he let go of Compagnucci a lot on the right lane and that allowed him some approximations in the search for his main offensive reference, Pablo Vegetti. In his most dangerous arrival, Vegetti getting up to speed hit a right hand that went very close to Gabriel Arias’ left post.
Of the outfield players, the most prominent in Belgrano was the 20-year-old kid Bruno Zapelli, with very good technique in handling the ball. The figure was Losada who was very safe, lowering centers and going out to cut when the circumstances required it.
Racing wanted more, but did not have offensive weight to resolve their insistent attacks. And for the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero to debut, there is a long way to go.