Juanfer Quintero and Roger Martínez lead Racing’s victory against Tigre

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First joy for Racing in 2024 from the hand of two Colombians. Juan Fernando Quintero was the great figure and Roger Martínez also scored a goal in the solid 3-0 victory over Tigre in El Cilindro de Avellaneda for the second date of the Argentine League Cup, leaving behind the setback in the debut against Unión de Santa Faith (0-1).

The Academy began to resolve the story in its favor quite quickly, because by the tenth minute of play it already had a two-goal lead on the scoreboard. Agustín Almendra broke the score at minute 4 after a series of rebounds in the rival area. Then it was time for ours.

Colombian connection in a still ball for the local’s second celebration. Corner kick executed by Juanfer for Roger’s advance and header, which made goalkeeper Matías Tagliamonte look very bad, who was trying to go out to cut the center, but his calculation failed and he was left halfway.

Quintero was the owner of the offensive ideas of the team led by Gustavo Costas, generating partnerships, asking his teammates to play collectively and exhibiting his capacity for the filtered pass, the hooks and the occasional productive luxury. For the second half, Roger was replaced.

Control like in Madrid and left foot to seal the victory

At minute 70, Juanfer himself was in charge of sentencing the story in Avellaneda. Gastón Marirena gave the pass to the middle from the right and the Colombian emulated the directed control of that December 9, 2018, when he gave the Copa Libertadores to River Plate against Boca Juniors at the Santiago Bernabéu. This time he stopped it in the same way in the crescent, but his left foot went down, impossible for Tagliamonte.

Total madness in El Cilindro, which every time it had the opportunity recognized Quintero’s great night with applause and ovations. The creative midfielder played all 90 minutes and even finished with the captain’s ribbon. Before the final whistle he was recognized and received a hug from Néstor Gorosito, the rival coach.

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Statistics of Juan Fernando Quintero in Racing’s victory over Tigre.SofaScore

Racing’s next challenge will be on Monday, February 5 at 7:30 pm (Colombian time) against Estudiantes, who in the last few hours made the signing of Edwuin Cetré official. Partially and in the absence of the date complement, the Academy is second in Group B in which Newell’s is 6 out of 6.

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Tigre

• 31 Matías Tagliamonte

• 26 Paul Adorno

• 2 August Aguirre

• 6

  Gian Nardelli

• 16 Juan Sánchez Miño (64′)

• 24 Martin Garay

• 20 Tomás Galván (45′)

• 5 Agustín Cardozo

• 30 German Brahian (45′)

• 29 Leandro Contín (45′)

• 18 Blas Armoa (63′)

• Dock

• 10 Gonzalo Maroni (63′)

• 12

  Felipe Zenobio

• 11 Ezequiel Forclaz (45′)

• 35 Nahuel Génez

• 23 Flabián Londono (45′)

• 38 Tomas Fernandez

• 14 Facundo Giacopuzzi

• 7 Juan Esquivel (64′)

• 4 Martin Ortega

• 15 Walter Rodriguez

• 19 Matías Espíndola (45′)

• 33 Gonzalo Flores

Changes

Matías Espíndola (45′, Tomás Galván), Ezequiel Forclaz (45′, German Brahian), Flabián Londono (45′, Nicolás Contín), Facundo Cambeses (45′, Gabriel Arias), Maximiliano Salas (45′, Roger Martínez), Leonel Miranda (63′, Agustín Almendra), Gonzalo Maroni (63′, Blas Armoa), Juan Esquivel (64′, Juan Sánchez Miño), Gaston Martirena (69′, Santiago Solari), Jonathan Gomez (75′, Bruno Zuculini)

Goals

1-0, 3′: Agustín Almendra2-0, 9′: Roger Martinez3-0, 69′: Juan Quintero

Cards

Referee: Pablo Dóvalo
VAR referee: Fernando Espinoza, Gastón Monson
Tobias Rubio (36′, Yellow)