Colón, who this time won as a visitor, lost it in an unusual, almost pathetic way. He had broken the visitor’s drought with a goal from “Legui” but in five minutes he did everything wrong and a “9” (Javier Velázquez) who is 40 years old and is more ready for retirement than anything else ended up winning. In any case, given the passivity of Colón, CADU’s “9” seemed like the clone of Cristiano Ronaldo. The DT, with an erratic pace, asks for reinforcements; For now the leaders did not bring anyone and the book closes on Thursday night at AFA. Perhaps the only positive thing is that San Telmo did not win at home and Sabalero remains at the top. But it is clear that if they don’t set the alarm clock to react, Colón will be put to sleep. Deep down, beyond the coach’s mistakes and the leaders’ responsibility, they once again beat him out of hand. With a 40-year-old “9” in front!
Colón stepped onto the unprecedented grass of the Mario Losinno stadium, to visit the Club Atlético Defensores Unidos (CADU) of the city of Zárate, at the beginning of the second part of the season with strengths and weaknesses. On the one hand, the only leader in its area, undefeated at home, best of all those in the promotion in terms of points in both areas and the highest scoring team without having a “9” with a goal. On the other hand, every time he left Santa Fe in the last excursions he suffered more than necessary: three without winning on the route and three without scoring goals (he lost in Bajo, it was a defeat on Isla Maciel and a blank score since distant Madryn).
For Columbus, CADU meant the day after tomorrow. That long-term race, which began in the month of February against this same rival in Santa Fe, had half left to reach that long-awaited “Finalísima” (ours, that silver, with a single “s”) for a ticket to First. Or, failing that, the crossings to go for the second ascent.
From the outset, the leader seemed to be the one in light blue and the one who had not won the red and black for seven dates. The owner of the house went after Sabalero, in the first minutes he kicked several corner kicks in a few minutes. Colón couldn’t find the ball and neither could the game. It was everything, from the visual point of view, for CADU and the only respite for the leader was given to Lago with his hierarchy: every time the ball came to him (almost never) he invented something alone and worried with his dribbling.
The debutant Sombra was able to generate tremors when he finished a good personal play with a right hand that deflected off Herrera and almost hung him with a lob to Vicentini. Colón, who always seemed uncomfortable on Zárate’s court, was able to have him with a still ball, with good hitting from Sabella (the only thing he did) that Paolo barely missed almost under the goal.
What could be rescued from those first 45 minutes?: just Talpone’s sporting shame for always asking him and running like a madman, in addition to what was already marked from the technical hierarchy of “Nacho” Lago in the few times that the ball reached him At his feet.
The X-ray of the first time in the city of Zárate gave the same diagnosis as the last outings (the Bajo, the Island, the south): Colón when he is a visitor is nothing like the one who plays with his people in Santa Fe. At home Iván Delfino’s team is the protagonist and unbeatable; Outside it is hybrid and vulnerable.
Despite the coldness of the all-rounders and the lack of play generation (consequently, the lack of scoring options), the one who paid the cost was Axel Rodríguez: he stayed in the locker room for Nicolás to enter Leguizamón. Before eight minutes of the complement, Colón’s great goal gave the Sabalero coach the right with that only touch: the “10” warmed up his football with a dribble, Talpone gave him a ball to break lines, center-back of the former San Lorenzo, deflection and quality touch from Leguizamón for his long-awaited and needed goal with the mythical “20” of the unforgettable “Bichi” Fuertes.
That touch of quality and share of hierarchy explained everything up to that point in Zárate: CADU had played well for almost half an hour without anything happening; Colón put together three passes in one minute and reached the goal with Euro Cup precision.
The game at times became “stingy” (Lópes and Castet, reprimanded) when CADU ran over. Just when Delfino began to close the half to close the result (Vega for Sabella, a “5” for a “10”), the tie came, all due to the arrogance of the two “9” of the light blue: one combed her hair and the another endured it with Goltz as a backpack. That “bad luck” of 0-1 for CADU was turned around with a rebound that, after Juárez’s shot, completely dislocated Vicentini to become a goal to tie.
Almost nothing had happened from that 1-1 blow, and once again the double “9” that “Chavo” Lema put up was something indecipherable for Colón’s defense. Caballero took Lópes for a walk as if nothing had happened, he took the center against the line as if it were Maradona and Javier Velázquez entering “cleanly” and he only headed everything he found in the race: the ball and the humanity of Castet, all together with the Same time. Vicentini, shot, put the ball inside his own goal. From 1 to 0 to 1-2 in a lethal carelessness.
At the touch, Brian Guille and Christian Bernardi were on the field for the last 15 minutes to go for the tie. Colón was anything from the tactical point of view and the match was broken. Lago could have tied it (for a change he made a great game, out of pure play) but he went close and Guille could have tied it with a missile from afar. In that desperation of Colón to go look for the relieving tie, Bernardi put together a nice stack, he cleaned it up for Castet, the left-footed cross from the “3” arrived and Legui couldn’t push it under the goal that would have been 2-2.
Colón definitely did not understand in 20 dates how these types of games should be played in the “B”: teams without history, strange fields, inferior rivals from the technical hierarchy. Bad reading from the coach, terrible attitude from the players and a lightness from the leaders who in several market days did not close on any reinforcement, something that this team clearly needs on all three lines. There is something that is short-circuited: the leaders think that in January they already put together a “great team” to promote and the coach is crying out for the four reinforcements with a Pass Book that closes in four days. Thus, if they do not agree, Columbus is not going anywhere. That’s why in Zárate, against a team called CADU, he lost in an unusual way. Colón was beaten by a 40-year-old “9” in five minutes. Almost on the verge of shame.
