Final with VAR and tension for a Red that won and takes a breath

If you do not suffer, you are not Independent. It should be a new football maxim. Because with Red there is no peace when they are winning, nor when they control the game, nor when they deserve to win. What happened yesterday in Avellaneda entered the realm of the unpredictable: Tigre won, tied it with a VAR penalty and ended up keeping the three points thanks to a goal in injury time also observed by VAR. In Independiente things do not flow, they are not natural, to everything you have to add a seasoning of tension. That is why the relief of the fans in the winning goal that Cauteruccio converted. He yelled at himself twice, and with the same intensity: when he converted it and when referee Nazareno Arasa validated it three minutes after listening to the VAR instructions.

With this victory, Ricardo Zielinski’s team gets some air and gets out of risky positions.

The match. After 5 minutes, Nicolás Vallejo took advantage of the fact that the Red midfielders pressed the start to recover the ball, that Sarrafiore gathered three defenders on the edge of the area and set it up, and the kid did not forgive: he broke Gonzalo Marinelli’s goal. A timely goal, starting, to control the nerves and the game.

But at Independiente things don’t usually go as planned. What should have been an uneventful first half ended with a draw after a penalty that Arasa validated after looking at the thousand repetitions on the VAR monitor. There was a hand from Barreto, the right one, but he hit him on the rebound, without intention, and before that there was an advanced position. In that confused cocktail, the referee looked at the screen and gave Tigre the penalty. This time Rodrigo Rey did not become a hero and those from Victoria closed the first stage with 1-1.

Independiente was always more ambitious, despite its limitations, it searched in all possible ways for a victory it needed.

Until the play of the suspense came in discount time and the final goal of the veteran Cauteruccio. It is not necessary that the people of the Red are exposed to such suffering date after date, but this team walks all the time between uncertainty.

This triumph may bring the necessary calm. Since Zielinski arrived, the team has lost only one of the five games it has played. Now comes Arsenal, an accessible rival. He will be facing the possibility of adding two consecutive wins for the first time in the tournament.

For now, the Red took off from the bottom of the table, something that should generate some relief.