River won once again and continues to grow Marcelo Gallardo’s team beat Quilmes 2-0 in the Monumental Stadium, added its fourth consecutive triumph and doesn’t lose step in the tournament.

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The rainy Sunday was the scene of a new triumph for River, that had added a highly important victory in Mendoza and had to repeat that good moment against Quilmes, to continue adding in threes y not to lose step in the national tournament.

In the first minutes, Quilmes bothered River with a couple of passes. However, already settled in the field, el Millonario became the owner of the match and began to show the game of the last encounters.

River had clear situations to open the scoreboard: first, the ball crashed against the goalpost after being deflected by Gonzalo Martínez’s free kick. Then, Sebastián Driussi tried from outside and Nacho Fernández had one of the clearest chances: a play and shot that went very near César Rigamonti’s left goalpost.

In the second half, everything belonged to el Millonario: Driussi had a very clear one-to-one, but the rival goalkeeper won and then Lucas Alario shot above the crossbar. In the following play, the only one for Quilmes in the second half, Augusto Batalla impressed with his one-to-one against Federico Andrada.

Afterwards, the time came for scores, for relief. Rodrigo Mora (who had just gone in) fought through the right and shot a precise cross to the area, Driussi put it down and Alario pushed it for the 1-0. Then, the same formula: the Uruguayan escaped through a counterattack, passed it to the top scorer of the tournament and this last one set up Alario, who kicked a magnificent cross-shot.

Thus, River added three points and positioned itself five places below the top, with one more match. The next encounter will be on Thursday, in the Monumental Stadium, against Melgal from Perú, for the second match of the group phase of the CONMEBOL Bridgestone Libertadores.

SYNTHESIS

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

Substitutes: Maximiliano Velazco, Gonzalo Montiel, Camilo Mayada, Exequiel Palacios, Rodrigo Mora, Carlos Auzqui and Iván Alonso.

Substitutions: Mora for Casco, Palacios for Martínez, Mayada for Fernández.

QUILMES: César Rigamonti; Matías Pérez Acuña, Diego Colotto (Captain), Matías Sarulyte, Matías Orihuela; Nicolás Da Campo, Matías Escobar, Adrián Calello, Brandon Obregón; Federico Andrada and Nicolás Benegas. Coach: Leonardo Lemos.

Substitutes: Horacio Ramírez, Gastón Bottino, Cristian Trombetta, Francesco Celeste, Gabriel Ramírez, Franco Negri and Rodrigo Contreras.

Substitutions: Ramírez for Da Campo, Celeste for Calello, Contreras for Obregón.

Goals: Alario (RP).

Booked: Maidana, Alario, Moreira (RP); Obregón, Sarulyte, Escobar, Andrada (Q).

Referee: Fernando Rapallini.

Assistant referees: Cristian Navarro and Mariano Ruas.

Fourth Official: Pablo Dóvalo.