For the fourth date of the professional league, River prevailed as a visitor 1 to 0 against Tigreis Victory. Leandro González Pirez was the author of the only goal of the meeting
River was superior but had no aim
Both teams came out with the intention of looking for a quick goal, but the paths they choose are very different. River sought to have control of the ball and generate diagonals to break the local defense, while Tigre bet on the speed of his attackers to launch into the counterattack when recovering.
El Millonario had several chances throughout the first stage, but one of the clearest was at 31′ after a great pass from Nacho Fernández, Pablo Solari fired a dangerous cross into the area, but neither Rojas nor any of the forwards could connect to open the scoring.
shortly after nacho fernandez took charge of the execution of a corner, and from a quite closed angle He tried to surprise Marinelli, but the goalkeeper managed to take it over the crossbar and into the corner.
After 40 minutes, Tigre had his first goal opportunity. Lucas Menossi led a counter for the Matador, then made a touch to the right that allowed Retegui to go deep and center for Alexis Castro, but the former Colón’s shot went over the crossbar.
The stopped ball, key for River
In the plugin, the first warning was again from River: Esequiel Boat I found the space to hook from the left and get a powerful shot from the right, but he went wide to the left of the goalkeeper.
At 18′ Facundo Colidio received a brilliant through ball, hooked to let Rojas through and He finished off Armani’s near post, but the shot hit the side of the net.
The game entered a passage in which Tigre increased the pressure and River had a hard time creating, so everything seemed to indicate that it was the local team who was going to open the scoring. But at 33′ Leandro González Pirez appeared to put Martín Demichelis’s team ahead.
From a ball stop Nacho Fernández sent a cross that was combed by Enzo Pérez so that González Pírez then arrived at the far post to make it 1-0. The defender, with a past in Tigre, did not celebrate his goal.
At the end of the game, the Matador went all out in search of an equalizer and had two clear chances. Just after River’s goal, Mateo Retegui headed in a cross from Castro’s very dangerous left, but the shot was misdirectedand went to the side of the right post.
And then, Franco Armani made a brilliant appearance to first save a powerful shot from Blas Armoaand then to close the angle on the rebound, keeping the 1-0 in favor of his team.
with this triumph River reaches 9 units to go up to the lot abovewhile Tigre, so far, reaps 5 points.
Tigre vs River: the formations
Tiger: Gonzalo Marinelli; Lucas Blondel, Brian Leizza, Abel Luciatti, Sebastián Prieto; Sebastian Prediger, Cristian Zabala; Lucas Menossi, Facundo Colidio, Alexis Castro; Mateo Retegui. DT: Diego Martinez.
River: Franco Armani; Robert Rojas, Jonatan Maidana, Enzo Diaz, Milton Casco; José Paradela, Enzo Pérez, Ignacio Fernández, Esequiel Barco or Agustín Palavecino; Pablo Solari and Miguel Borja. DT: Martin Demichelis.
The details of the match between Tigre and Rvier
Professional League.
Date 4.
Tiger – River.
Stadium: Jose Dellagiovanna.
Referee: Jorge Balino.
VAR: Diego Abal.
Start time: 18 TELEVISION: TNT Sports.