Nacional (PAR) vs Argentinos Juniors (ARG) | DESTACADO SUDAMERICANA | 02/04/2024 | beIN SPORTS
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00:00 [crowd chanting]
00:04 [crowd chanting]
00:06 [whistle]
00:08 We get the Comibol Sudamericana group stage underway for 2024.
00:12 Argentinos Juniors get us going in the all-red strip,
00:15 playing from left to right on your screen.
00:18 [crowd chanting]
00:23 Azusa gets it on the overlap.
00:26 Carona.
00:27 [crowd chanting]
00:30 He was off balance, wasn't he, when he tried to whip that one towards the penalty area.
00:35 Legron in the thick of things and already has the arms around him once again
00:39 as he's trying to find some space.
00:41 He had it as well. It went a little over his head and it was a free header straight at the keeper.
00:46 [crowd chanting]
00:54 Ball around the corner. A little bit of room just opening up on the edge of the area for Azusa.
00:59 Still another opportunity beaten away and Rodriguez eventually diving onto it.
01:04 Winded slightly.
01:05 It's the effort from the edge of the area that came from Azusa
01:08 and then he got the second bite of the cherry.
01:10 [crowd chanting]
01:13 And hit the deck arms, they're coming together with Galvan.
01:15 [crowd chanting]
01:18 Galvan, I think, just trying to shepherd him away from it more than anything else.
01:21 [crowd chanting]
01:26 [crowd chanting]
01:28 Moyano.
01:29 [crowd chanting]
01:30 Lescano.
01:31 [crowd chanting]
01:32 Vega.
01:33 [crowd chanting]
01:34 Two waiting in the centre.
01:35 [crowd chanting]
01:36 Veron coming as well.
01:37 [crowd chanting]
01:38 Just takes a deflection. Almost dropped into the path of Romero.
01:40 [crowd chanting]
01:41 Lescano.
01:42 [crowd chanting]
01:43 He's the provider this time.
01:44 [crowd chanting]
01:47 This might fall kindly here for Romero.
01:49 Oh, wonderfully taken.
01:51 [crowd chanting]
01:56 They just never gave up, did they?
01:58 [crowd chanting]
02:00 Lescano's delivery was certainly problematic
02:04 but not as difficult to deal with as the home side's defence made it.
02:08 [crowd chanting]
02:11 It's that touch from Blasi that certainly doesn't help matters at all.
02:15 But there's a lot to do for Romero here.
02:19 Watches it all the way onto the left boot.
02:22 Just a few minutes after succumbing to the opener.
02:26 [crowd chanting]
02:30 Victor Bonet will certainly want to see that change
02:34 when he gets the opportunity in about 10 minutes' time plus stoppage time
02:38 to have a word with his side.
02:40 It could change right now.
02:42 Velasco.
02:43 [crowd chanting]
02:45 Always underneath it.
02:48 Took a deflection.
02:49 He's behind for a corner.
02:52 Looking to start brightly in this year's tournament.
02:55 Gondou.
02:56 [crowd chanting]
03:02 Lescano just looking for it.
03:04 And he's found.
03:05 And he finishes.
03:06 [crowd chanting]
03:10 That's what this young man can do.
03:13 A second coming before the break.
03:15 But how well was this taken?
03:17 Orozco just so much time on the edge of the area.
03:21 And Lescano saw the route through the defensive ranks.
03:25 [crowd chanting]
03:27 It's a good piece of control to get it away from the defenders
03:30 and out of his feet.
03:31 And the pass initially was slightly underneath him.
03:34 And then it's the dink.
03:36 Gondou.
03:38 Neatly worked into Romero.
03:41 Those two combine once more.
03:43 Can go right if he wants to.
03:45 Or can go for goal himself.
03:47 He's done too much over cooking it.
03:49 Still finds Romero.
03:51 3-0.
03:52 [crowd chanting]
03:59 It's a lovely and unselfish ball back to Luciano Gondou.
04:03 Who you just thought did way too much in this moment.
04:06 Holding on and holding on.
04:08 And somehow he finds the pullback.
04:10 And there just aren't enough bodies coming back to cover the two
04:12 inside the box waiting for it.
04:15 Two against one.
04:17 Even with this delay.
04:20 And it's a composed finish from the numbers.
04:22 Trying to alter the course of this Cormorant Ball
04:24 Sudamericana group opener.
04:27 It's going to take a lot considering they're trailing by three goals
04:29 thanks to the two strike.
04:33 It's a real baptism of fire to the group stage of the
04:36 Cormorant Ball Sudamericana for Nacional.
04:38 Never played at this level of the competition since its introduction.
04:42 Gaona trying to look as at home with it as possible.
04:45 Caceres with the effort.
04:47 Beaten away initially by the keeper and over the top by Gustavo Caballero.
04:53 When it's not your night, it's not your night.
04:55 And it really seems like it's not the Paraguayan side's night.
05:02 All came from Vega being dispossessed.
05:07 It's a great touch around the first defender in the end from Caceres.
05:12 Rodriguez does enough with the save but puts it straight down into the danger zone.
05:18 The 22-year-old squanders it.
05:22 Something after there from Leandro Meza.
05:24 Just saw a flick of the heel as he was walking away.
05:29 Yellow card shown to Meza.
05:32 Be interested to see if VAR picks up on that.
05:37 Bettagini gets bundled over. Have a look here though.
05:41 Now what is that left boot doing?
05:45 Turns away from trouble but they have to go backwards once again.
05:49 Time is rapidly running out here for Nacional.
05:55 Juan Luis Alfaro.
05:57 What a bad ball in. It's probably the best one we've seen in the night so far.
06:01 Gustavo Caballero.
06:07 Juan Fernando Alfaro.
06:09 Clips into the box. Lovely nod down and really well finished off.
06:15 Daniel Rivas, the left back.
06:17 Two-year-old.
06:20 Is that nod down straight into his path.
06:23 Beautifully done by Orlando Gaona.
06:28 It's a good finish as well from the full-back.
06:31 Doesn't bag many. His first goal of 2024.
06:36 It's well hit. Doesn't dig it into the ground too much. Just keeps it cool.
06:42 A lifeline. Is it too little too late however for Nacional?
06:47 It's a goal that really shouldn't have come.
06:49 Martinez Jr. has been in complete control of this one for the second half.
06:53 It's three against two suddenly. Just the right decision needs to be made by Veron.
06:56 But the genie! Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
07:00 Gaona.
07:15 Great delivery. We've got a game on here.
07:20 And one that makes things very nervy for the Argentinian side.
07:25 You have to say they didn't deal with it well, did they?
07:35 The visitors' defence.
07:38 It's all at the wrong end of the field.
07:41 And that is the wrong result on the opening night for Nacional.
07:45 It looked like it was going to be a superb evening for Argentinians.
07:48 3-0 up at half-time but almost squandering their advantage that was given to them
07:52 thanks to the brace from Maximiliano Romero and Alan Lescano.
07:55 Daniel Rivas and substitute Rodrigo Arevalo finding rebuttals late on.
08:02 But it was too little too late for the Paraguayans.
08:05 And Argentinians start the group stage of the Combat Ball Sudamericana
08:10 with three points in hand on the road.
08:12 The final score here in Paraguay.
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08:20 (upbeat music)
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