04/10/2024 6:35 p.m. Updated on 04/10/2024 10:26 p.m.
EIn the first minutes, The most visible thing about the match between Atlético Mineiro and Rosario Central was the rough playthe waste of kicks and the constant requests for cards. And it is very difficult to have the leading role in the game when a team is going to play as a visitor for the Libertadores, and this match for Canalla was no exception to the rule.: so it was that after the first 20 minutes, The Belo Horizonte team was the one who pulled the strings of the gamehe moved the ball from side to side and made all his players, standing from the middle of the field forward, touch the ball and they will show the Rosario team that the home team is to be the protagonist and press well from the top.
Hard setback for Central in Brazil
What can be positive about Central? Defensive solidity, but in football the one who scores goals wins and had little weight in attack and on Russo’s team, again, He highlighted the importance of always having Jaminton Campaz and Ignacio Malcorra (he scored a great goal to make it 1-1, but the joy did not last long)who were the only ones who showed the intention of going towards the rival goal, an item in which the rest did not accompany, but not because there was no intention, but because the rival did not let them, beyond the fact that Gabriel Milito’s men did not play the goal either. best of his matches.
However, showing little (but enough), they reached the 1-0 goal, which was not dazzled by Gustavo Scarpa’s definition, but by the masterful pass that the former Verdeamarelha striker Hulk gave him. Central had its chance to tie at the end, but a rude untaken penalty (see separate) prevented it. As it is, Mineiro rules the group and Central is forced to come back.
Paulinho de Mineiro celebrates the winning goal this Wednesday, in a Copa Libertadores group stage match between Atlético Mineiro and Rosario Central at the Arena MRV stadium in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). EFE/ Yuri Edmundo
An unusual referee error…
Mineiro was fastening the victory, but Central could have tied it with a clear penalty that, unusually, the referee did not charge: fearsome elbow from Jemerson against Facundo Mallo that the refereeing body did not even resort to the VAR to check it… An unusual refereeing error… (see the video below).
“It seemed criminal,” Russo said.
After the defeat, Coach Miguel Russo spoke at a conference with Ignacio Malcorrawho scored his first goal – in his second game – in his career in the Libertadores and who He ignored that at the group level “We are leaving very hot.”
For its part, The experienced defender was more cautious when asked about the penalty that the Peruvian referee Kevin Ortega did not charge at the end of the match and highlighted the commitment of his team on the field: “It seemed like a penalty to me, but I’m not talking about the referees. Not every team plays a second half in Brazil like Central did.”
AMDEP9517. BELO HORIZONTE (BRAZIL), 04/10/2024.- Rosario coach Miguel Ángel Russo reacts this Wednesday, in a group stage match of the Copa Libertadores between Atlético Mineiro and Rosario Central at the Arena MRV stadium in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). EFE/ Yuri Edmundo
Highlights of Atlético Minero’s victory against Rosario Central
Copa Libertadores – 10-4-2024
