In a match of low relief and few emotions, Defensa y Justicia and Racing shared control of the field and handling the ball (a time for each one), and sealed a 1-1 that was quite adjusted to the balance of the 90 minutes .
The home team took the lead after 37 minutes, after a big mistake by Moreno, which Barbona took advantage of to set up Alanis, who touched softly with his left foot on the start of Arias.
In the first half there were other arrivals from Varela’s team: a shot from Sant’Anna and another from Nicolás Fernández that went wide near the posts, and no shot on goal from Racing, which got very close, at speed and power minimum until Unsain payments. Until then, the victory of the locals was fully justified, as they treated the ball better against an opponent with no ideas in the middle or defensive solidity.
The Racing of the championship, the one that lately has not hit one, the one that has more goals against than anyone, began to resemble that of the Copa Libertadores (it is the leader in its group), when at the start of the second half Defensa y Justicia stayed with 10 players due to the expulsion of Escalante, due to a double yellow card.
Without a game, but with a lot of drive he began to corner his rival, put him against the ropes and found the right shot for the tie at 65 minutes, with a header from Moreno after a center from Mura.
He shouted it with all the Racing midfielder, because with that conquest he managed to clean the stain from the pass that gave rise to Alanis’s goal. Moreno himself was about to achieve the imbalance with a shot from the edge of the area, which seemed to have a net destination, but was deflected by Malatini. There was also a good shot from Hauche that found a good response from Ursain.
The locals, for their part, did not show many signs of offensive vocation in the second half, and limited themselves to trying to put a stop to the attacks of Racing’s midfielders and forwards. The game will soon be forgotten.
