How much desire there was in the Park to celebrate a victory. It is that recent times were not good at all and starting like this, with a victory without objections and against an adversary like Defense and Justice, annoying for anyone, is well worth enjoying. Javier Sanguinetti made it possible. And his soccer players, who gave the stature to the proposal that the DT planned, too. Newell’s was applied, willful, hard-working, orderly and aggressive in every way. Panchito González’s goal was meager, because the superiority of leprosy was much broader. But it is the least of it, with the three points achieved and a rewarding debut.
Sanguinetti’s approach, designed to prevent Defense and Justice from doing what it does best, which is from possession, was effectively reflected. He hindered the rival exit, with high pressure, constant attention, synchronized movements and deployment. Sordo and Castro formed the containment barrier ahead. Fernández, crouched, would shoot out if the ball crossed that first defensive line. The others did not neglect the spaces or the marks.
The roles were changed. A team in formation like Newell’s handcuffed another with an already consolidated base. Leprosy fulfilled the first mission. Do not give the initiative to the Halcón de Varela. The other part of the task, the offensive, went from minor to major. It was enough for Nicolás Castro to receive it and move from one side to the other, preferably on the left for Panchito González’s overflows, so that the leprosy approaches the Unsain arch. What the red and black creative lacked was walking fine in front of the goal. A take from Fernandez found him in a favorable situation and it seemed that he rushed in with the shot from outside the area, knocking it over the crossbar.
The little fairness had it in addition to head. A cross from Panchito González did not go well and the ball crossed in front of Unsain. Garro was even less precise, connecting high a Méndez shipment just in the middle where the visiting one was standing. One and another action occurred after the expulsion of Colombo for a hard tackle on Garro. Since that expulsion, Newell´s exerted a greater dominance and if he did not get ahead in it, it was exclusively due to the fact that he missed him in the last stitch.
The trend in favor of Newell’s increased in the second stage. It established in the game the difference that Defense had of having one less. The benefit was to progress in the field of play and at the right moment to open it to reach the sides. Rotondi’s shot from mid-range that went close, as happened before the end of the first half with Bou’s forehand, were sporadic situations, nothing indicative of what was happening on the field. Leprosy was always in control.
Panchito González lamented the free kick that Unsain took from him in great form. And the same thing happened to him with the ball that he left in the hands of the goalkeeper. But revenge came. He appeared at the far post to cross Sordo’s center with his head. Goal and delirium in the Park.
The result was altered and never the development. Nor the inability of Newell’s to liquidate it despite continuing to arrange one and another action to seal the result and not have any kind of suffering.
At that point, Sanguinetti introduced Cacciabue and Juan Manuel García for Pablo Pérez and Sordo looking for renewed footballers given the team’s wear and tear, applying the script proposed by the coach. A while later Giani appeared for a standing ovation from Panchito González.
But Newel’s erred in opportunism against Unsain. Giani missed it with a header on a corner kick and then a tackle from the left. Defense and Justice was still alive only because of leprosy.
But what was feared in the Park did not happen. Newell’s reached the end with the minimum difference to celebrate with enthusiasm. Faced with so many questions about how the team arrived, the victory and the way in which it was achieved was gratifying. It was a good start.
