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ESRiver stumbled in the Monumental Marcelo Gallardo"s team deserved more, but San Martín from San Juan found a goal at the beginning of the second half and defended it.
The Monumental Stadium dressed up again of celebration. Before the match, the champions of the 1986 and 1996 editions of the Liberatores Cup, had their well deserved tribute on the field, to less than two weeks of obtaining the actual edition by this historic River from Marcelo Gallardo.
River went out to the field with presence, without allowing the visitant team to play and rounded up San Martin. However, in that first half, the Millionaire team only generated a pair of clear situations, through Gonzalo Martínez and Nicolás Bertolo, while did not suffer in defense.
At the beginning of the second half, San Martin put the score 1-0 with a goal from Facundo Pumpido, who found a rebound inside the area and left Marcelo Barovero without chances. River was in search of the tie and, even though it was not entirely clear, deserved a little more: Luis Ardente proved to be safe, answered when they demanded it and the rival defense endured the result.
With this defeat, the Champion of America failed to reach the top position of the tournament. With one match less, Gallardo"s team is at six units from the leaders of the AFA tournament.
Summary
RIVER PLATE: Marcelo Barovero (C); Gabriel Mercado, Jonatan Maidana, Ramiro Funes Mori, Leonel Vangioni; Carlos Sánchez, Leonardo Ponzio, Matías Kranevitter, Nicolás Bertolo; Gonzalo Martínez and Javier Saviola. Coach: Marcelo Gallardo.
Substitutes: Julio Chiarini, Eder Álvarez Balanta, Camilo Mayada, Luis González, Leonardo Pisculichi, Sebastián Driussi and Lucas Boyé.
Substitutions: Driussi for Mercado, Pisculichi for Kranevitter, Boyé for Saviola.
SAN MARTÍN (SJ): Luis Ardente (C); Javier Capelli, Francisco Mattia, Damián Ledesma, Rául Iberbia; José Luis Gómez, Nicolás Pelaitay, Sebastián Navarro, Daniel González; Marcos Figueroa and Facundo Pumpido. Coach: Carlos Mayor.
Substitutes: Leandro Corti, Daniel Franco, Marcos Gelabert, Erick Aparicio, Leandro Martínez, Javier Toledo and Pablo Vitti.
Substitutions: Martínez for Figueroa, Vitti for Pumpido, Franco for Gómez.
Goal: Pumpido (SM).
Yellow card: González, Pumpido, Ledesma, Ardente and Vitti (SM).
Red card: González (SM).
Referee: Jorge Baliño.
Referee Assistant: Ariel Scime and Marcelo Bistocco.
Substitute Referee: Yamil Possi.
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