After the hard fall in Argentine Cup before Temperley, River lost 1 to 0 with Argentinos Juniors for the third date of the Professional League and could not get to the top of the table.
Argentines was more intense from the beginning with high pressure that forced several errors from the visitor at the start. The Bug won the midfield and they were able to go into the break with a greater lead.
As usually happens when he leaves his court, Martín Demichelis’ team was lackluster. He almost didn’t create goal situations and the game never influenced him, in a very different face than the one he shows at the Monumental.
At 39 minutes, Alan Lescano saw Franco Armani ahead and hung it left-handed in a great goal. In the next play, Gondou almost made the second with a left cross that went just wide.
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Demichelis moved the bench in the complement but River never found a way back into the game. With this defeat, he no longer leads the championship. On Thursday the group stage of the Libertadores Cup of local against Deportivo Táchira.
For this match, they returned to the starting team Agustín Sant’Anna, Paulo Díaz and Esequiel Barco rather Andrés Herrera, Héctor David Martínez and Nacho Fernándezinjured.
In this way, River formed with: Armani; Sant’Anna, González Pirez, Díaz, Casco; Villagra, Aliendro, Barco, Echeverri; Colidio and Borja.
Argentines came out with: Diego Rodríguez; Thiago Santamaría, Eric Godoy, Jonatan Galván, Román Vega; Alan Lescano, Ariel Gamarra, Nicolás Oroz; Gastón Verón, Luciano Gondou and Emiliano Viveros.
