2024-07-27 23:42:06
Forty years ago, Independiente tied 0-0 with Gremio from Porto Alegre before a crowd at the old Doble Visera stadium in Avellaneda and won the Copa Libertadores for the seventh time in twenty years. Time has passed, terrible and evil, and the old red glory has faded. Four decades later, Independiente no longer rules in America, not even in Argentina, where it has gone twenty-two years without winning a First Division title.
The current team, led by Julio Vaccari, cannot find its footing. In the championship’s return after the Copa América, it obtained one point out of nine. This Saturday it lost again 1-0 in Mendoza against Independiente Rivadavia, it has only seven points in the table and in the annual table for now, it is very far from any cup position. Watching him play, none of that is surprising. And as if this whole picture wasn’t worrying enough, has not yet been able to enable its four new additionss (central defenders Pellegrino and Lomónaco and full-backs Loyola and Vera).
The people of Mendoza bet on the speed of the Colombian Sebastian Villa. And his goal came in this way: At 19 minutes into the first half, Ham caught the Reds’ centre-backs off guard and set up Villa, who solved the problem with a breakaway past goalkeeper Rey. Independiente tried to equalise. But it was difficult to get close to the area. Vaccari chose to go to the sides with the youngsters Santiago Lopez y Santiago HidalgoThe results were magical: nothing here, nothing there.
It would seem that the institutional disorientation of Independiente is also beginning to invade it. to the technician who moves the pieces, puts them in and takes them out without finding answers and without it being clear what he intendsIndependiente Rivadavia was supported by the solidity of its three central defenders and Villa’s runs. It was enough in the face of the hopeless poverty of the former national pride.