Racing 0 Colón 2: Well that didn’t go well…

By: Frank | November 18th, 2008

Apologies for not posting a preview; I had a massive head cold over the weekend which I’m still recovering from. Let’s consider this game the exact opposite of the one last week at Tucumán, right down to the fact that I only saw the second half when last week I only saw the first (I had trouble finding a feed on justin.tv until I found one before the start of the second half). I’ll skip the usual match summary, and just write down some brief observations from what I saw.

-I feel for Pablo Migliore. Really, I do. True, it was a mistake he shoudn’t have made, but I’ve experienced a similar situation for my indoor team a couple years ago. However, it was pretty clear that his head wasn’t in the game after that, as Los Sabaleros had a shot hit the post, and Migliore was frozen.

-The more I see of Pablo Lugüercio, the more I feel that he was one of the better buys in all of the Primera this season. He’s great with the link-up play, runs his socks off, and has formed a pretty good partnership with Maxi. I only wish he could score with more regularity.

-This was a typical Racing loss; dominate possession for long stretches of the game, create chances, and the opponent has one real chance on goal and they put it away. Then somehow concede a second through some ridiculous fluke. Ah well, such is the life of a Racing supporter.

-And speaking of Racing fans, why do we call ourselves La Numero 1? Because we sing louder when we are losing. After the second goal, the supporters sang louder than before, and then just as loud at the final whistle. En las buenas y en las malas mucho mas.

-From what I’ve read, Racing should have scored three times in the first half. It’s important for us to put away those early chances; this team thrives on getting into an early lead. If not, we see things like constantly sending in high crosses instead of trying to keep the ball on the ground; this became clearer in the second half. If you noticed, whenever we did keep the ball on the floor (whether through the middle or down the flanks) chances were made.

-Props to Colón’s keeper Diego Pozo for having a good match, as well as Esteban Fuentes for scoring “twice” (I mean, yes his first goal was well taken, but can we really count the second as his?).

Highlights

Next week we will be hosting our friends from the blue half of La Plata (that’s Gimnasia, in case you weren’t sure). I promise I will have a preview up at the end of the week.

RACING SIEMPRE ES UNA FIESTA….