Argentine beast waist: Messi’s bodyguard

Chapter 113

On the evening of March 15 at 20:00, with the referee’s whistle, the Buenos Aires western suburb derby of San Lorenzo vs Atlético Hurricanes in the fifth round of the 2015 Argentine Serie A officially began in the presence of more than 40,000 fans at the San Lorenzo de Gaian stadium.

“The referee blew the opening whistle.”

“The game is on.”

“It’s another derby after four years.”

“For the sworn rivals of San Lorenzo and Athletic Hurricanes, they haven’t played a derby in four years, and I believe both sides miss each other and can’t wait to defeat each other.”

“Let’s take a look at the starting line-ups of both sides.”

“The goalkeeper of the visiting team Hurricane Athletic is No. 1 Marcos Dias, left-back is still back from injury because Barbie is still not back from injury, starting with No. 26 Bonnie Farshaw, right-back is No. 2 captain Mancinelli, No. 25 Eduardo Domingos and No. 21 Nervo partnering in double centre-back.”

“The double back is No. 8 Lucas Villaruel and No. 4 Allen Villade, the left midfielder is No. 10 Alejandro Romero, the right midfielder is No. 11 Turaza, No. 18 Torranso plays the playmaking front and the single striker is No. 9 Avila.”

“With the exception of Bonnie Farshaw, which is a rotational substitute, the other players are all workhorses. Obviously, the Hurricanes Athletic will not give up this game, even if the Hurricanes schedule is quite tight recently, it is definitely going to compete with San Lorenzo. ”

‘Home side San Lorenzo, who only won the Copa Libertadores last season, is in good spirits, with 3 wins and 1 defeat in the first four rounds of the season, fourth in the table, behind Atletico Hurricanes, Rosario Central and Boca Juniors.

‘In today’s city derby, San Lorenzo’s goal is, of course, to beat Atletico Hurricanes and remove their arch-rivals from top of the table.

‘Their starting goalkeeper will be No. 12 Torrico, the defenders from left to right are No. 21 Mas, No. 6 Caruso, No. 2 Ceto, No. 7 Buffarini, the double back is No. 5 Borchel and No. 8 Kalinschi, the left midfielder No. 10 Leandro Romagnoli, the right midfield is No. 28 Muthis, the front is No. 23 Sebastián Blanco, and No. 26 Matos plays as a single striker.”

“Oh……”

‘San Lorenzo, playing at home, has already completed his first shot from the left wing-back, and Leandro Romagnoli from the left wing-back is curving on the left side of the edge of the penalty area.

“But although the ball bypassed the Hurricanes defenders and goalkeepers in the box, it failed to go around the goal frame and flew off the line against the far post.”

‘However, although this goal was not scored, it also proved that San Lorenzo is determined to attack in a big way, and it is impossible for the home team playing at home and behind their mortal rivals in the standings to play defensively and counter-attack, and it is necessary to take the initiative to attack.”

“And we look at the visiting team, after goalkeeper Marcos Dias drove the goal, the Hurricanes did not protect themselves, did not fall on their feet at the back, but quickly passed the ball to the midfield, began to press forward as a whole, and faced each other.”

“It’s a dead and aby-city derby, and the sworn rivalry between the two sides dooms this to be a game that is more important than the championship fight, and you can’t lose the momentum.”

‘The two sides will definitely have to play against each other, presumably the game will be wonderful and the number of goals will not be less.’

“Blessed are the neutral fans.”

With the narrator’s voice, the Hurricane Athletic team in the stadium was indeed moving forward quickly with the ball, and Lucas and Villard also pressed forward sharply to join the pass and cut to match.

However, Atletico Hurricane’s attack did not succeed, and in the end, Torranso accidentally lost the pass under the interference of the opponent’s pressing interference, and San Lorenzo got the ball and played a wave of counterattacks.

Villade realized the danger as soon as he lost the ball in Torranso, immediately turned around and returned to the defense with great speed, and directed his teammates to quickly organize the defensive line, successfully defusing San Lorenzo’s counterattack.

Fans on both sides of the stands cheered for their teams, shouting and trying to influence each other when they held the ball.

Because the home team set up a way to buy tickets, the Hurricanes as the tickets allocated by the away team, plus the loose tickets that the fans themselves tried to buy, add up to only four or five thousand people, and some of them are still scattered among the opponent fans, dare not cheer for the Hurricanes too “arrogantly”.

As a result, there were only more than 3,000 fans gathered together, protected by security guards, who could boldly cheer for the visiting team Hurricane Athletic, including Christina, Daisia, Henderson and others, and they were placed in the corner above the stands, further away from the center of the stadium.

Still, the cheers from more than 3,000 people were clearly conveyed to the ears of Villard and others, letting the Hurricanes players know that they were not alone.

This kind of psychological is not the mood of fan “comrades-in-arms”, which can indeed affect the player’s on-field performance, otherwise, the football match will not be divided into home and away games, and in the case of the same total score, the side with the most away goals can advance.

In today’s game, the home team San Lorenzo clearly had the advantage of form, constantly attacking from the beginning, creating a lot of threatening attacks.

In the 8th minute, San Lorenzo crossed from the wing, centre-forward Matos headed it over, and forward Sebastián Blanco inserted a volley from the back to hit the ball within the frame.

But the ball was not angled, and was saved sideways by goalkeeper Marcos Dias.

Three minutes later, San Lorenzo made a comeback with No. 10 Leandro Romagnoli cutting inside from the left and passing inverted into the triangle, and Kalinschi rushed to the top of the penalty area for a powerful volley.

However, Villard saw Romagnoli’s inverted triangle pass intention in advance, assisted in time to put it in place, jumped up with a back to block the gun, and successfully blocked Kalinschi’s long-range shot from outside the box with his back calf.

In the 15th minute, San Lorenzo won a corner kick with another shot that caused Nervo to block the ball from the line.

San Lorenzo’s center, central defender, and high-back Borchel all entered the Hurricanes Athletic penalty area and participated in the competition, and for a while the Hurricanes box was full of noise and the atmosphere was extremely tense.

Then, fullback Mousis took a corner kick and Hurricanes central defender Eduardo Domingos and San Lorenzo center Matos grabbed the same spot, and the two jumped at the same time, pushing each other in the air to compete for the top.

In the end, Matos managed to grab the first point, and a powerful header shot headed the ball against the Hurricanes’ goal.

Although Matos and Domingos slammed their heads after finishing the top ball, both screamed, the ball had flown towards the Hurricanes goal.

Goalkeeper Marcos Díaz was so remote that he could no longer reach the ball, and the San Lorenzo players in the stadium and the home fans in the stands raised their hands to celebrate the goal.

As a result, the ball “slammed” on the crossbar, bounced back into the small penalty area, and was then released by the fast-eyed Alan Villard with a big kick out of the box.

Outside the box, the only players left for the Hurricanes were Torranso and Alejandro Romero, as the rest of Avila, Villade, Lucas and others retired to the box to participate in the defense.

As a result, Villade’s indiscriminate ball was kicked right to Torranso, who did not stick the ball, and in the face of the opposing full-back’s counter-grab, a header ferried the ball to Alejandro Romero, and then threw off the opposing full-back and rushed desperately to the half of San Lorenzo.

Because this was a corner kick just now, not only the Hurricane Athletic players retreated deeply, they returned to the box to participate in the defense, San Lorenzo’s central defenders, backs, etc., also entered the box to participate in the competition, and there were only two full-backs outside the box, one back, desperately returning to defense.

After controlling the ball, Alejandro Romero and Torranso directly formed a two-on-three situation in midfield.

Although San Lorenzo’s defenders, full-backs, backs, central defenders, etc. rushed out of the Hurricanes’ penalty area and desperately returned to defense, Alejandro Romero and Torranso’s double counterattack was too smooth, and did not let San Lorenzo’s defenders touch the ball, and successfully reached the front of the big penalty area through continuous wall collision in the run.

Finally, it was Torransay who rushed into the right rib of the big penalty area, received a diagonal pass from Alejandro Romero, and successfully kicked the ball into the upper right corner before No. 21 full-back Maas flew into place.

Although San Lorenzo’s goalkeeper Torrico had already stood in the near corner, opening his arms to try to block the angle, but the ball was too close and too fast, Torrico could only do his best to block and failed to touch the ball, and the ball volleyed by Torrenso took off from the ground, flew under his armpit, and then flew into the upper corner of the near end of the goal.

The commentators who supported the Hurricanes or neutrality roared and shouted:

“Goooooooooooooooooooooal……”

“The ball went in!!!”

“Atletico Hurricanes opened the scoring with No. 18 forward Torranso scoring goals.”

“This ball was just a corner kick from San Lorenzo, and the home team’s striker, central defender, high back, etc., all entered the Hurricanes Athletic penalty area to participate in the competition, but Mattos’s close-range header hit the crossbar, bounced back into the box, and was cleared by Villade’s big foot, just landing next to Torranso.”

“Then, Torrenso snatched the second drop and headed the ball over to Alejandro Romero, and the two successfully tore through the San Lorenzo defence by constantly hitting the wall on the march, and finally Torrenso rushed into the big box and scored from close range with a volley from the top right.”

“The ferocious and powerful San Lorenzo not only failed to break through the Hurricanes goal, but was broken through the defense by the Hurricanes with a quick counterattack.”

‘It was a classic quick counter-attack, with Hurricanes scoring first, leading 1-0 on the road.

“The balance has been broken, and it is estimated that the home team San Lorenzo will attack more fiercely and the game will become more exciting, right?”

The narrators are not wrong in their guesses.

San Lorenzo, who attacked for more than ten minutes and completed many shots but failed to score, saw that Hurricane Athletic scored first through a quick counterattack, and after leading them, it was naturally quite unhappy and unconvinced.

If this is not quickly brought back, how can San Lorenzo, who is a big player in the First Liga, last season’s Copa Libertadores champion and playing at home, afford to lose face?

So when Hurricanes celebrated the goal and the game resumed, San Lorenzo continued to press aggressively, vowing to score an equalizer and even reverse the score.

And the Hurricane Athletic, also because of this unexpected counter-attack goal, morale boosted, into the game form, the two sides began to compete in the midfield, in the midfield fierce fight.