River surpassed Unión and affirms itself at the top of the table

River Plate won 1-0 against Unión de Santa Fe in the Más Monumental due to Fernández’s goal, and remains at the top of the Professional League with 21 points in nine games. On the next date, Martín Demichelis’s team must visit Huracán, but before that, on Tuesday, they will play in Bolivia to face The Strongest, for the first day of the Copa Libertadores.

In an intense first half, the team led by Martín Demichelis started with everything and completely dominated the game with skill, deployment and aggressiveness. With just a few minutes, he already had several clear scoring chances.

At 9 minutes, Nicolás de la Cruz quickly took a winger for Enzo Díaz, who threw a cross and it was the chance for Ignacio Fernández who grabbed it with a volley, leaving Santiago Mele without an answer and making it 1 to 0.

Unión tried to get closer, but the last meters were imprecise, nothing that Franco Armani could not control. The rest was all from the local, at 29, Enzo Pérez interrupted Unión’s counterattack and released quickly for José Paradela, whose shot went over the crossbar and again but at 39, the striker lost the second again, he failed to push a good cross from Beltrán.

Already in the complement, the Millionaire continued to control the rhythm of the game, having a clear chance to score the second, with a joint play by Paradela, Beltrán and Nacho Fernández that ended with the striker reaching the end of the area and defining a goal without goalkeeper, but defender Federico Vera took the ball out on the line.

At 20 minutes, Unión would be left with 10 after the expulsion of Imanol Machuca after a strong foul on Enzo Díaz.

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In the remaining minutes there were numerous chances that the local had to define the result, but anxiety and uncertainty did not allow it to define clearly in the last meters. So the game closed with 1 to 0.

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