Defensores de Belgrano thump Racing (Córdoba) 3-0 after Colón win | 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 fighting tooth and nail to avoid relegation came up against another one reeling from major news: it ended in a 3-0 thrashing in Núñez, and the Dragón is starting to dream about survival.

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 by the 15th minute, the Córdoba side was already two goals down.

The first came through a joint gift from 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-wrapped goal, rewarding him for being the one who had challenged for it first. The second goal came from a refereeing mistake by Lucas Comesaña…

Enzo González went on a kind of slalom run, started weaving past 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 final one.

It could have been more…

Still, the slaps woke Academia up. Even if they lacked a cutting edge in the final third, Racing at least managed to find out what the grass looked like on the other half of the pitch, something it hadn’t known until the 30th minute. Without Córdoba’s spark and with Chavarría disappearing for stretches, the Nueva Italia side never did enough to pull one back. Not in the first half, nor in the second.

At all times, Campodónico’s men looked closer to putting the rout to bed than their opponents did to scoring their 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 as if he were a lifelong winger. The No. 5 played it to Gamarra, a rugged center-back, who hit it first time andpicked out the top corner as if he were David Trezeguet, the King himself, watching closely from the stands.

Defe wiped the floor with Racing. They could have scored a fourth or even a fifth if they hadn’t taken their foot off the gas. Coleoni’s side came in marked by the transfer of their star man and lost their way even more after feeling hard done by. It finished 3-0, and the Dragón lifts its head out of the danger zone, breathes, and dreams of staying up.

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