River couldn’t get the Argentina Supercup

In La Plata, River Plate had its first official presentation of the year and no less than for the chance of a new lap of honor, after a successful 2016 in which it won the Recopa Sudamericana and the Argentina Cup. Owing to this last title, it played against Lanús (winner of the local tornament) for the Argentina Supercup.

In the first 45 minutes, River began exerting lots of pressure and bothered Lanús to go out from the bottom. The middle line of el Millonario moved forward and cut the circuit of the rival game. After Rodrigo Mora’s cross from the right, Sebastián Driussi had the first one, but his header got lost near Esteban Andrada’s right goalpost.

Then, the scorer had a shot within the area, but it went beyond the crossbar. Lanús answered with Alejandro Silva’s one-to-one that went out deflected, far from Augusto Batalla’s right goalpost. The last clear chance also belonged to River: Ignacio Fernández got ready and kicked a low cross with his left foot, that was rejected by Andrada to the corner.

After the half time, the match continued with the same trend, both teams generated situations and none was better than the other. In fact, River was the one to have the clearest situations: a very clear free kick from Mora that couldn’t go beyond the barrier, a shot by Driussi form outside the area and a cross made by Fernández that Camilo Mayada could not head.

However, and after a fortuitous play, Lautaro Acosta took advantage of a rebound and scored the 1-0. River could tie the score with a kick from the deb Carlos Auzqui that went out deflected. Then, the opponent got the second one through Nicolás Pasquini andthe third one, by means of José Sand’s penalty kick.

SYNTHESIS

RIVER PLATE: Augusto Batalla; Jorge Moreira, Jonatan Maidana, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Milton Casco; Camilo Mayada, Leonardo Ponzio (Captain), Ignacio Fernández, Gonzalo Martínez; Rodrigo Mora and Sebastián Driussi. Coach: Marcelo Gallardo.

Substitutes: Enrique Bologna, Arturo Mina, Luis Olivera, Joaquín Arzura, Iván Rossi, Tomás Andrade and Carlos Auzqui.

Substitutions: Auzqui for Mora, Andrade for Mayada.

LANÚS: Esteban Andrada; José Luis Gómez, Marcelo Herrera, Diego Braghieri, Maximiliano Velázquez (Captain); Román Martínez, Iván Marcone, Nicolás Aguirre; Alejandro Silva, José Sand and Lautaro Acosta. Coach: Jorge Almirón.

Substitutes: Nicolás Avellaneda, Rodrigo Erramuspe, Facundo Monteserín, Nicolás Pasquini, Agustín Pelletieri, Fernando Barrientos and Marcelino Moreno.

Substitutions: Pasquini for Aguirre, Monteiserínfor Herrera, Erramuspefor Silva.

Booked: Martínez, Mayada, Maidana, Moreira (RP); Velázquez, Gómez, Herrera, Aguirre, Sand (L).

Referee: Germán Delfino.

Assistant referees: Sergio Zoratti and Sergio Viola.

Fourth Official: Diego Abal.

Additional Assistants: Fernando Echenique and Ariel Penel.

Stadium: Ciudad de La Plata.

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