Coming into this match at the Diego Maradona, Daniel Passarella showed his intentions as far as what he thought about the remainder of the Apertura tournament. He decided to save all his big guns for the huge midweek clash at home against Arsenal for a chance to go to the Copa Sudamericana finals.
Huracán’s players showed their intentions yesterday as they did not decide to go into isolation due to salaries and prize moneys that have not been paid to players by the club. The team captains met with club president Carlos Babington to no avail.
Still these players were able to step onto the pitch and face a River side that looked like a nursery, but their spirit was yearning to show the coach that they were worthy of consideration for the big team.
But it would be the veterans that would make the difference in this match for the Millonarios. Sixto Peralta would open up the score for the visitor in the 20th minute. In the second half, Cristian Sánchez Prette would put the final coffin in River’s domestic coffin as he would score twice as they broke down the River Plate defense, forcing Daniel Passarella to try and counter his former World-Cup winning teammate´s strategy Osvaldo Ardiles to no avail. His last-minute substitutions delivered as much as result as his talk earlier in the week with Colombian coach Jorge Luis Pinto about the possibility of having Radamel Falcao García play midweek.
Huracán (2): Marcelo Barovero; Paolo Goltz, Claudio Ubeda, Walter Gómez; Cristian Sánchez Prette, Hugo Barrientos, Leandro Díaz, Federico Poggi; Andrés Franzoia, Franco Mendoza
River Plate (1)Juan Marcelo Ojeda; Carlos valencia, Mateo Mussachio, Federico Lussenhoff, Emmanuel Martínez; Facundo Afranchino, Matías Díaz, Matías Abelairas; Sixto Peralta, Damián Lizio; Andrés Ríos
Goals:
HUR: Sánchez Prette (59′, 67′)
RIV: Peralta (20′)
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