Everything went wrong for River

In this Argentina depressed, with galloping inflation, with the value of the dollar through the roof, the movements that River he made in the transfer market, adding one valuable reinforcement after another as if he lived in a first world country. Of course, in the first real game, for the points, the last champion ended up kneeling in Santa Fe. He fell 0-1 against Union. As if it were not the great candidate, as if it were just another team…

Everything went wrong for River in its debut in the League Cup. He played the opposite of what the interpreters indicate about him. He hardly ever found his way around the game. It cost him to generate goal situations. He didn’t kick on goal in the second half.

It’s real: River ended up losing due to a penalty that wasn’t. There was no foul by goalkeeper Franco Armani against Juan Nardoni. He had gotten to the ball before the local striker. However, in the balance of merits, Union was much more than River. With absolute inferiority in individual wealth, the Santa Fe team did not respect him. He played him without complexes. He pressured him, blocked him, locked him, made him uncomfortable.

On top of that, the author of Unión’s goal in that controversial penalty was Mauro Luna Diale, a 22-year-old who just made his formative divisions in… Boca. Anyway, the negative millionaire combo included another oddity. Juanfer Quintero, one of the heroes of the final in Madrid, the most brilliant incorporation, the Colombian who was not expected as a starter, played from the beginning, but he did not weigh in the game and left at halftime with ice on one knee…

A fate similar to that of River had Independiente, who in Eduardo Domínguez’s debut as coach lost 2-1 against Estudiantes, who celebrated the official return of Mauro Boselli with a headed goal from a different definer. It was the first. The second was made by Agustín Rogel, also by air. The discount was drawn by Joaquín Laso, from half a turn.

In the other match on Saturday, Huracán beat Lanús 1-0. Today, it will be the turn of Boca – Colón, Racing – Gimnasia and Platense – Talleres. For now, no great has achieved a victory in the first chapter of the League Cup, which has 28 teams divided into two zones of 14, with playoffs disputed by the first four of each group. After the draw of San Lorenzo rescued on Friday as a visitor against Banfield, the defeats of River and Independiente came. How will Boca and Racing do now?

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