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River Plate lost 5 to 4 in the definition of penalties before Gimnasia and Esgrima La Plata after equaling 2-2 in a regulation time of 90 minutes In this way, he will not be able to play the Copa Libertadores 2019 unless he wins the 2018 final at Boca Juniors, while the "triperos" will play the final of the Copa Argentina in a week with Rosario Central.
The winner of the Copa Argentina-Gymnastics or Rosario Central will have a place in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2019.
The start of tonight's game in Mar del Plata had two logical protagonists: a river that takes the initiative and gymnastics of the middle of the back which seeks to reduce the spaces to its rival.
The beautiful night in Mar del Plata (16 degrees) and a crowded World Cup stadium, with a majority of River Plate fans but a large number of players from La Plata, invited to an evening unaccustomed to those times when River is particularly involved.
But that did not seem to weigh in at the "millionaire" of this emotional overload of the second frustrated finale of the Copa Libertadores and the uncertainty that arises as to whether it will eventually be played and where it will happen (it is very likely that it will be in the distant capital of Qatar, Doha).
What, yes, to try to open his rival the technician Marcelo Gallardo drew the diagram of an attack that was beginning for his defense, and especially at Javier Pinola, who during the first period was tired of throwing left foot to Ignacio Fernández or the projections of Gonzalo Montiel on the right.
And when that did not happen, The alternative was to use the left lifeline for Gonzalo Martínez to release his talent to Ezequiel Bonifacio.
After these first 45 minutes, the Núñez team had good results.just before the half hour of play, Bonifacio had already been reprimanded for violating the "Pity" and he had converted, free kick, first goal of his team with a shot at half-height which counted on the complicity of goalkeeper Alexis Martin Arias.
But it did not take more than four minutes for the gymnastics to reach a draw after a center Paraguayan ex Lanús Víctor Ayala, who had thrown it almost without having rolled the right foot, but a defeat in this case of the River goalkeeper, Franco Armani, allowed Lorenzo Faravelli to have a bow and a ball to signal the tie.
But when it seemed that this fortune began to caress the back of the "tripero", Bonifacio crossed it strongly for Martinez and ends up taking the second yellow card and then red. The little more than five minutes that awaited us was pure suffering for the gymnastics, which ended up taking a corner after the other until the final whistle of Facundo Tello.
And what we could expect is that many would not hold the team led by Pedro Troglio in the second part, was corroborated by playing only two minutes., when Lucas Pratto showed his physical power after a play that started with a controversy for alleged offense to Horacio Tijanovich not charged and finished with the definition of "Bear & # 39; relatively similar to the first goal converted in the first leg of the final of the Libertadores against Boca, defining a very open angle.
Everything was to ask for the mouth for River, winner and with a man on, but Pinola's nonsense was going to put Gimmnasia back into the game while at 4 minutes, almost like what had happened before with Bonifacio, he let his team with one less to nudge Maximiliano Coronel on a corner shot by Ayala. It was also criminal because the ball was in play, but Tello did not charge it.
But the story would not be too long for the story to look like new, on the other hand, for the benefit of gymnastics this time aroundIn addition, Ayala launched from the right a center with the usual precision and Santiago Silva was able to lead the goal before a new weak response from Armani. Only ten minutes had passed since the expulsion of Pinola. It was his tenth goal for River throughout his career.
The little more than half an hour left ahead brought everything back to zero, because ten against ten still River took the initiative and the gymnastics, as there were more spaces, he tried to make the court even wider than ever, the main goal being that Martínez did not have any room for those traveling with comfort.
And in fact the "Pity" was going to play the last minutes playing right rather than left as it had started, but there were still not too many loopholes where the old Hurricane could filter, which, in the desperation of winning in the usual 90 minutes, led River to try to find solutions to the air game, which is certainly not his forte.
And in fact, between a gymnastics that has decidedly pointed out the definition of the 12 steps and a river so owner of the helpless bullet to break the rival of the iron defense, everything was to be defined from where the least wanted "millionaires".
And that's why it was no longer gymnastics, which was crowned finalist to convert five penalties against four of the Riverplatenses. the professional era. For the first goal, the "millionaire" is now forced to beat the Superfinale in Boca. Otherwise, play in South America in 2019.
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