Defensores de Belgrano beat Racing (Córdoba) 3-0 after win over Colón | OneFootball

They say you don’t know what you have until you lose it… Racing (C) was playing its first match after Leandro Córdoba’s transfer to the other Academia, the one from Avellaneda. Coleoni’s team not only lost one of its biggest prospects, but also its most unbalancing and incisive attacking player. Without a doubt, it was a huge blow. There could hardly have been a worse time to face Defensores de Belgrano. A team playing do-or-die to avoid relegation came up against another reeling from major news: it ended in a 3-0 thrashing in Núñez, and the Dragón is now dreaming of staying up.

The two sides of the coin were on display at the Juan Pasquale: on one hand, the home side came out like a hungry lion hunting its prey to take all three points. On the other, the visitors came out cautiously, waiting to see how the match would unfold. But the Primera Nacional gives you no breathing room for even the slightest lapse… It’s no coincidence that after 15 minutes, the Córdoba side was already two goals down.

The first came through a joint effort by Defe and Brian Olivera. The goalkeeper had come out well to deal with a corner, but the ball slipped through his hands and left Gonzalo Gamarra with a gift of a goal, rewarding him for being the one who had gone up to challenge for it in the first place. The second goal came from a mistake by referee Lucas Comesaña…

Enzo González went on a kind of slalom run, began weaving through sky-blue-and-white shirts at the edge of the box, broke into the most dangerous area, and Raúl Chamorro went in for the challenge fairly, shoulder to shoulder. The striker’s dramatic fall fooled the referee, who immediately pointed to the penalty spot. The No. 9 claimed it for himself, converted the spot kick and doubled the lead. Given the way it happened, it felt like the knockout punch, though not the last one.

There could have been more…

Still, those blows woke the Academia up. Even if it lacked any cutting edge in the final third, Racing at least managed to find out what the grass looked like on the other half of the field, something it hadn’t known until the 30th minute. Without Córdoba’s spark and with Chavarría, at times, nowhere to be seen, the Nueva Italia side never did enough to pull one back. Not in the first half, nor after the break.

At all times, Campodónico’s men looked closer to putting the rout beyond doubt than their opponent did to scoring its first. That third goal, sooner or later, arrived. Defensores de Belgrano reversed roles. De Tomaso, the holding midfielder, shook off his marker by the touchline like a lifelong winger. The No. 5 passed it to Gamarra, a rugged center back, who hit it first time andburied it in the top corner as if he were David Trezeguet, the King, who was watching closely from the stands.

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