Racing (U) vs. Argentinos Juniors, for the South American Cup: goals, controversies and more

El Bicho suffered again against Racing (U) and on their visit to the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo they lost 2-1 on the fourth day of the group stage of the Sudamericana.

Argentinos Juniors looked for it until the end but ended up losing 2-1 against Racing de Montevideo in Uruguayonclick=’vApp.ga4SelectContentEvent(“Argentinos Juniors lost to Racing (U) for the Copa Sudamericana and got complicated in the group”, “Copa Sudamericana”, “Note”);’ > and with this defeat for date four of group F of the Copa Sudamericana. This fall and the victory of Corinthians against Nacional, in Paraguay, complicates it thinking about the classification.

Argentinos wanted revenge for the very tough 0-3 against the Uruguayan team suffered in La Paternalonclick=’vApp.ga4SelectContentEvent(“Argentinos Juniors lost to Racing (U) for the Copa Sudamericana and got complicated in the group”, “Copa Sudamericana” , “Note”);’ > and although at times it was better, Racing de Montevideo was effective with what it had and also took advantage of the Argentine team’s mistakes.

El Bicho had started well, even Herrera had a very clear chance to open the scoring at 12 minutes when he made a good half turn that had an even better reaction from Odriozola who kept the zero in his goal. Only four minutes later came the play that broke the course of the game. Betancur had not noticed Meza’s handball after a shot by Nandín, he was called by the VAR to review and took the maximum penalty. Tomás Verón Lupi took charge of the penalty, Diego Rodríguez managed to avoid the goal, but the rebound fell again and it was 1-0 for the localsonclick=’vApp.ga4SelectContentEvent(“Argentinos Juniors lost to Racing (U) by Copa Sudamericana and it got complicated in the group”, “Copa Sudamericana”, “Nota”);’ >.

Only seven minutes later, the second blow of cold water came for the Argentines, Prieto, who had entered due to Godoy’s injury a minute before, controlled poorly and Erik de los Santos converted the secondonclick=’vApp.ga4SelectContentEvent(“Argentinos Juniors lost u00f3 with Racing (U) for Copa Sudamericana and it got complicated in the group”, “Copa Sudamericana”, “Note”);’ >. A lot of prize for the Uruguayans. At 32 it was Luciano Gondou who managed to discount click=’vApp.ga4SelectContentEvent(“Argentinos Juniors lost to Racing (U) for the Copa Sudamericana and got complicated in the group”, “Copa Sudamericana”, “Note”); ‘ > after a good performance by Prieto to go to half-time with a minimal difference.

In the second half, Argentinos continued looking for him, but failed to convert to remain tied and continue fighting high up in the zone. He even continued making mistakes and almost gave Racing the third in the 13th minute when another bad delivery left him with the goal twice, but the shot was bad. It was difficult for the visiting team to create danger in the second half and they leave the Centenario empty-handed.

To continue thinking about the classification, El Bicho must visit Corinthians on Tuesday, May 14 and close its participation in the group against Nacional of Paraguay at home on the 28th.