The bad end of the semester, as a result of the defeat against Granate, left the Academy with the first negative consequences in the standings. After the 0-2 as a visitor to Lanús, this Friday Racing lost the lead it occupied until before the start of the fifth round of the Professional League, the last one before the interruption of the tournament for the Copa América: Talleres took the lead from it.
With goals from Bruno Barticciotto and Alejandro Martínez, the T beat Platense 2-0 in Córdoba and was three points ahead of the Academia, one of the five temporary sheets along with Gimnasia, Huracán, Unión and Instituto. But this Saturday Tatengue (receives San Lorenzo) and Globo can also surpass Gustavo Costas’ team (it will be local against Independiente Rivadavia). If the Mendoza team wins, it will reach Racing in units.
In addition, the fall in Fortaleza and the victory of Talleres caused the Academy to leave the Libertadores zone in 2025 according to the annual table. Now it is fourth with 34 beans, one less than Argentinos, the third and last in that classification strip below River and T. Racing, in turn, is first in the field of access to next year’s Sudamericana.
Beyond Talleres and the lead, Racing played very poorly against Lanús and that generated concern in Costas
Racing couldn’t go on vacation with a smile. The setback against Lanús cut his five-game winning streak and broke the streak of clean sheets he had in that number of games. However, it was not the defeat itself that caused the most concern in the coaching staff, but rather how poorly the team played and its lack of emotional responses.
Although he did not say “we were a disaster” as he did after the loss against Union on the first day of the League Cup, at the beginning of the competition, he made a crude criticism of the team’s performance. And he seemed very upset because he didn’t notice a good attitude. “It was one of the worst games. There are ways to lose and these are the ones that hurt the most. Maybe the others could hurt you, like against Sarmiento, but you had the attitude to go look for him. Here we lost in everything. That’s what hurts you the most,” said the coach.
The coach spoke of “desire”
Costas reinforced: “Today we were very far from what we had been doing. We were not intense, we fundamentally lost all the duels. Regardless of the scheme we use, if you lose the duels… They beat us everywhere. Forward, behind, in the middle …We were never in a game. We never have to change the way we play. The intensity, the desire. “This is very competitive, you have to be awake all day.”
The Racing team was licensed until the 26th of this month included. After two days of work at the stadium, on the 28th The group will travel to Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. There he will face the strongest stage of the preseason, until July 6. The team will be housed in the Eastern International Complex, a place with many amenities and fields in very good condition. That site was chosen by Gustavo Costas, who directed three teams from that country: Guaraní (in two eras), Olimpia and Cerro Porteño. As this portal was able to find out, there will be no friendlies in the neighboring country.
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