04/07/2024 17:07hs. Updated on 04/07/2024 8:50 p.m.
It seems that Racing likes to play with the noose around his neck. Without margin for error is when Costas’ team found the consistency that it has not had at the beginning of the year and today he is paying dearly. As a result of these high and low peaks, The Academy is running from behind and is still not enough to get into the quarterfinals of the League Cup. He was obliged to beat Lanús. He did it. Now he will have to do the same with Belgrano and wait for some results.
Racing improves and is on a roll
Since you are truly bound to win, Costas’ team has already accumulated four consecutive wins. They beat Central Córdoba and Lanús for the League Cup, San Martín de Burzaco for the Argentine Cup and Sportivo Luqueño for the Sudamericana. On this path he confirmed Maravilla’s scoring instinct (13 shouts in 15 games and top scorer in the Cup), the solidity of García Basso and an idea that is slowly emerging.
Against Lanús, in a full Cylinder, Racing had a tough challenge. His rival was one win away from ensuring his classification to the next instance. On top of that I had to fight with her own ghosts, because He had barely gotten one point out of nine in his last three home appearances. He surpassed it without leaving a doubt. At least in a large part of the game. Yesand it simplified him because he scored a quick goal and did not repeat mistakes from the past, where he came a lot and did not score as with Unión, Godoy Cruz and Defensa, three games in which he was superior and did not win in the Cylinder.
Another goal from Maravilla Martínez
Maravilla Martínez’s moment was what quickly unlocked a match that seemed extremely difficult. Mura took a great left-footed cross, the 9th anticipated Acosta’s bad start and almost made it 1-0 with his back. Six minutes had passed and in the first accurate attack Costas’ team was already in the lead.
That first half went from high to low. For half an hour, Acadé imposed conditions in positioning and possession of the ball, but it deflated and the irregularity appeared that caused them to lose many valuable points. Zuculini and Almendra had problems in containment and There the enormous García Basso appeared. To his perfect production he added a goal play: he saved a weak rebound that Arias gave and took what was the tie on the line.
Already in the ST, the spaces served the match on a plate to Juanfer Quintero. Luxuries, short and long passes, and an air assist for Solari’s great goal, who nailed it from an angle.
Only fate will tell if Racing is enough to finish among the four. But there is something that is already certain: Costas’ team is gaining momentum and looking to the future it seems to have a very high ceiling if it maintains this regularity…
Racing – 22-4-2024
Solari increased the difference against Lanús
Racing – 22-4-2024
Martínez’s header for Racing’s 1-0
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