Yesterday in the debut in the OFI A club cup, the two-time soccer champion from Salta, Universitario, fell 0-1 against a good team like Porongos de Flores, accustomed to this type of championship, with a lot of skill, before a pale red, far away of his level, with players from whom much more was expected.
As much as the refereeing was not good and left much to be desired, that the injuries at the beginning of the match of Matías Flores in the background and of a midfielder like Martín Silva weighed, the representative from Salta only had good moments and more than others, well used and capitalized by the rival.
At times it seemed not to be the day of those led by Emilio Silva. Another deficit that is not minor, they feel absences like that of Luis Facio, Franco Ávalos, who are in recovery. Although the red midfield had people with good feet, when they did not have the ball they needed people to scrape, who put a strong leg to recover, which did have the rival, who for several passages copped in the middle of the field.
In the first minutes Universitario had the ball, triangulated well and Dos Santos had an unbeatable goal chance that he wasted before the goalkeeper left. At 7 ′, because of a strong pull, Captain Flores leaves, and at about 15 ′ in one of the first arrivals at the bottom of the visit, at the entrance of the area Torres receives a ball, turns and takes a surprise shot to score the 1-0, so far undeserved.
A minute later, after a move from the right, the center to the far post and George Dos Santos scored a great goal with a header, but at the request of the assistant the referee annulled the goal, because he understood that the forward was asserting himself in the defense before heading a goal. very fine play, for us it was not a fault.
From then on, Porongos grew in the game, forcing the red goalkeeper to make good interventions, added to the good work of Octavio Pintos, especially due to the work of the strikers Torres and Fumero.
In the ST despite the variations except for the first minutes where University came out very determined looking outside, there was no case. Fornaroli does not define well on two occasions. After Porongos with trade more than anything, he tries to cool the game, managing time well, University entered into a nervousness and bewilderment.
Anyway, in the end the local had their chances, which on other occasions were usually goals but this time the ball did not want to enter, without detracting from the interventions of goalkeeper Saens.
Enrique Olaizola