He went from lowest to highest, but it wasn’t even enough to take a point. Students of La Platawhat He had just been crowned champion of the 2024 League Cup, lost 1-0 on the visit to The Strongest at the height of La Paz, for the fourth date of Group C of the CONMEBOL Libertadores. Now the Bolivian team is the new leader in that area.
Ursino scored the winning goal for The Strongest against Estudiantes with a header. EFE
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The other crossing scheduled for this week in the group was postponed. Due to the serious floods in Brazil, the match that the local Huachipato and Gremio were to play in Chile was suspended, which could not train, and the CSF decided to postpone it to an indefinite date. The Chilean team was leading, with five points, and the Brazilian team was last, with only three.
With this fall, Pincha from La Plata was in third place and the Bolivian Tigres are the new leaders of Group C, now with seven points. The new Argentine champion, who defeated Vélez last Sunday on penalties, failed in the face of his new challenge at more than 3,000 above sea level
At 13 minutes, The Strongest took the lead. The experienced midfielder Luciano Ursino, a figure on the night in La Paz, scored a great header and made it 1-0 with a header, after a free kick, in front of students. There was a prolonged check in the VAR to determine the position of that player born in Argentina and of Bolivian nationality and of the last Pincha man in the play, his emblem and owner of the midfield, Enzo Perez. And finally the goal was validated.
The team led by Eduardo Domínguez did not play well in the first half at altitude. He did not make a foothold in the middle zone and had some attacks, but he always finished the plays badly, with shots far from the rival goal. But improved in the second halfhe got closer to goalkeeper Guillermo Viscarra, although he continued to fail in the final stitchon two occasions Pablo Piatti.
The local team continued trying as best they could, in search of Enrique Triverio, their goalscorer and figure, whom Pincha suffered in the first leg. The Estudiantes coach decided to make changes and included José Sosa for Pérez shortly after the complement began, whom he also replaced as captain. He had the Colombian Edwin Cetré, his gunner, as hope of goal, but He appeared irregular and was replaced by Guido Carrillo when there was less than half an hour left.
The most concrete opportunity for Estudiantes was generated by Piatti, with a bomb from a distance that Viscarra took into the corner, at 75. It was another serious warning from the Argentine champion. And that player was changed two minutes later by Mauro Méndez, another modification trying to add fresh players. Meanwhile, the last dangerous action came from the winner, at the feet of Leonel López, with a strong shot that Matías Mansilla, hero on penalties in the League Cup, was able to take.
In the Libertadores, Pincha suffered its second defeat in a row, after losing 1-0 at home to Gremio, when the Brazilian team finished with one less player. The Strongest arrived in the doldrums: Argentine coach Pablo Lavallén resigned after losing in the semifinals of the Bolivian tournament, due to penalties against Universitario de Vinto. Ismael Rescalvo took over and this duel with Pincha from La Plata was his debut
The only previous duel between The Strongest and Estudiantes was the one played recently in this Cup, when the local team won 2-1 in La Plata, thanks to goals from Carrillo and Cetré to turn the score around after Triverio’s goal. This time the host also celebrated, which was the Bolivian team, and Pincha is obliged to recover as soon as possible to keep the hope alive in the Libertadores.