Belgrano closed with a 1-1 draw with Tigre in Victoria, for the fifth round of the Professional League tournament. It is the end of the first half of the year’s competition for the Pirate in a match that began by losing at the beginning and managed to tie with a great finish from Matías Suárez in the second half.
In a low-level match, Celeste added a point and has gone three games without losing.
The match
Tigre had the first of the game. The visit ended poorly in the end, and he gave Armoa the opportunity. His good cross shot was blocked by Losada. But the next action came the Matador’s goal. Galván appeared on the left and his center in the middle was pushed into the goal by “Chucky” Ferreyra.
During the first 20 minutes Tigre was better. And Belgrano living with error and suffering. It was difficult for the Pirate to stand up.
Only at 23 did the first visitor approach arrive. González Metilli opened to the left, where Oses appeared. His shot was deflected into the corner by goalkeeper Zenobio.
At 28, a clear one for the “B”. A passed cross from Barinaga reached Oses and the continuity of the play ended in the head of González Metilli. He went to the side of the stick.
At 33, another for Belgrano. Barinaga received only inside the area, but was unable to go one-on-one with the goalkeeper, who prevented the goal.
The first half ended with a very weak start to the game by the Pirate. From the second half of this stage, Celeste had its chances, but he did not know how to take advantage of them. The last one was with a header from Matías Suárez, which went next to the post.
THE COMPLEMENT
Belgrano opted for Delgado’s income, to improve the defense, and Lucco, looking for more football. In the midst of a notable distraction from the Tigre defense, Matías Suárez appeared and exhibited all his quality to make it 1-1 at 18.
Afterwards, the game depended more on someone else’s error than anything else. The 1-1 was good as a result.
The formations
The previous
A 2024 that began loaded with expectations mutated as the games went by and ended with the team a little more organized on the field and in the annual table, but far from achieving what was dreamed of when 2023 had concluded.
All of Belgrano, at the beginning of the year, with Guillermo Farré at the helm, spoke of higher objectives than those of the previous year, which had not been few, because they had achieved a place in the Sudamericana and played in the quarterfinals of the Cup of the LPF where River eliminated him at the last minute.
But those objectives were broken down as the games went on, “Guille”’s team was not what everyone thought it would be and little by little each step that was taken was a false move that made the illusion of improving the achievements of a team falter. great year and it mutated them into general anger and lack of response on all sides of the sporting side.
That early elimination from the Argentine Cup at the hands of a second-rate team, when they lost to Miter de Santiago del Estero in Junín 2 to 1, was a blow from which the process was not recovered and everything dreamed of in January was left on the ledge of not being able to do it.
The League Cup was a tremendous headache and after drawing 2-2 in Santiago against Central Córdoba, Farré’s time came to an end. There were 118 games for a coach who gave the Pirate promotion and he ended up leaving his position after 12 official games that year, one win, five draws and six losses.
The era of Real
With the ship aimless and in a zigzagging motion, Juan Cruz Real was chosen, an unknown coach who had arrived from Colombia and had no concrete experience in the country. With him came recovery in sports, little by little he began to play “something else” and the results gave him a hand.
They moved away from the “ugly” area of the annual table and climbed to 19th place with 21 points, far from being the expected team, but at least there were a couple of smiles that helped restore people’s hope.
The South American Cup It was the best news, because the team was undefeated in six games and a place in the round of 16 as the winner of its zone. Above what was expected, but well deserved the pass to the next instance.
Now Real’s first transfer market is coming, which must be much better than Farré’s in January, because at that time they arrived Agustín Baldi (for the Reserve), Ignacio Chicco, Rafael Delgado, Francisco González Metilli, Gonzalo Maffini, Facundo Quignon, Bryan Reyna and Matías Suárez.
The coach is asking for a minimum of 4 players and from then on replace those who may leave due to sale or technical determination to no longer take them into account. He has to adjust his eye and his aim, so that what he incorporates brings solutions to the problems he has in the squad that now shows itself better.
For Real, the match with Tigre is a different match, because he had to debut in Victoria as coach of the “B” last March 29 when they won 4 to 1. It was the first step in a resurgence that is slowly taking shape.
Tigre is full of emergencies, because the specter of relegation is stalking him and that could be a good chance for his nerves to play in favor of Celeste.
To reach the line of points that last year took him to an international cup (57 at the end of the season), the man from Córdoba would still have to add more than 52% of the points remaining by the end of the season.
The “B” plays with a team “patched” with youth players because between the injuries and the poor performances of the older players, they give the coach a lot of work.
Tigre and Belgrano formations for the Professional League
Tiger. Felipe Zenobio; Martín Ortega, Tomás Fernández, Kevin Lomónaco and Ángelo Marchese; Martín Garay and Agustín Cardozo; Tomás Galván, Gonzalo Maroni and Blas Armoa; Facundo Ferreyra.
DT: Sebastian Dominguez.
Belgrano. Nahuel Losada; Alejandro Rébola, Mariano Troilo and Agustín Baldi; Juan Barinaga, Facundo Quignon, Gerónimo Heredia and Juan Velázquez; Francisco González Metilli, Matías Suárez and Facundo Lencioni.
DT: Juan Cruz Real.
Hour: 19.
TV: ESPN and Public TV.
Stadium: José Dellagiovanna (Tiger).
Referee: Sebastian Zunino.
VAR: Andrés Merlos.
