:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/IQOXGINIMRCH5GNYK55KWNZKXU.jpg "12 touches from area to area: River’s work of art in Girotti’s first goal against Atlético Tucumán")
The juvenile of River Federico Girotti He lived a dreamed night at the Estadio Único Ciudad de La Plata where with two of his goals, his team won 2-1 against Athletic Tucuman, for the 16th final of the Argentina Cup. The first was luxurious with more than ten previous touches that allowed the team led by Marcelo Gallardo to open the scoring and break a 234-minute drought without scoring goals.
It was at 12 minutes that the Millionaires defenders came out playing and began to transfer the ball from the bottom and touched on the left side of midfield. The 12-pass combination ended in the low center of Fabrizio Angileri for Girotti to convert from the ground.
Nine minutes later came the second goal from the 21-year-old. The play nation in the right sector by Enzo Pérez who played with Agustin Palavecino. East he put in a great pass that enabled the projection of Gonzalo montiel. Cachete was projected, saw it arrive at Girotti, and sent a cross that the forward finished off from the right in a bite, but effective way to be able to extend the advantage in favor of Núñez’s club.
River showed a good level in the initial 45 minutes and was just the winner of the match. He could have gone into halftime with one more goal. From the first minute the Muñeco team made their intentions clear and of wanting to play the Superclásico in the round of 16 of the Argentine Cup.
The youthful Girotti had made his debut in January 2019 when he entered from the substitutes bench in a 3-1 loss against Patronato at the Monumental. That day he replaced his current partner in River’s attack, Lucas Beltran, when the complement averaged. Then he played another two games in the Copa Libertadores against Deportivo Binacional (6-0) and Liga de Quito (0-3), always entering from the substitute bench.
He scored his first goal in a narrow-down victory over Godoy Cruz in the Diego Armando Maradona Cup last November. However, he began to win the hearts of River Plate fans when he scored against Boca on January 2 of this year at La Bombonera in a 2-2 draw.
The 1.89m footballer renewed his contract a few months ago since he had a valid relationship until mid-2021. The Millionaire extended it until December 2022 and to avoid a premature departure to Europe he put a clause of 20 million euros. At that time, it was said that the agents of Torino in Italy had already laid eyes on him and even came to offer 3,750,000 euros to buy his token, money that the club rejected.
The boy from Acassuso came to the club as a child and then had an interesting scoring average in reserve. And he acknowledged that Gallardo helped him realize the functions he has to fulfill: “When I was in the lower ranks, I didn’t have it, I just settled for the goal. It said ready, I already fulfilled. I realized over time, with the words of the coach, that it is not just the goal. It means being there, supporting teammates like today, defending the ball to the last, always wanting to win ”.
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