Monumental bust: River Plate descends to B

The River Plate is the chronicle of a death foretold . This Saturday's draw was not one against Belgrano in the second leg of qualifying for promotion, a result which they achieved after 2-0 Los Celeste the first leg in Cordoba, has found the bones of millionaires in the second division of Argentine football for the first time in its history.

After finishing ninth the Clausura 2011, Rivera was second to last in the table of averages , this invention Grondona ... - a position that forced him to play a playoff with Belgrano in fourth place in the B, to dispute a place in the First Division. Having lost two-nil in the first leg at the Giant Alberdi , a River awarded him with an outcome with a difference of two goals, since goals tie favors the first team. Five minutes later, Mariano Pavone scored a goal that put the first stone at a comeback by the clamoring crowd that came a piercing all ethical boundaries, with chants and threats to players, coaches and leaders who may well be summed up in one " or die. "

With the early goal Tank Pavone I must admit that I thought it was all fish sold: River would imagine that getting a second goal, either on merit or arbitral some help. In fact, shortly before the local goal, the referee annulled a target of Pirates by an offside positional not think I would whistled in the other area. However, the opposite occurred. Turús him a penalty as a cathedral Pavone, the undisputed star of the night, but the referee did not want to see it.

With the passage of minutes, seeing that River was not quite find their place in the field or on the pace, while together they Belgrano good lines and waited for his chance on the counterattack. In one of them had it Pereyra El Picante, before the goalkeeper only twenty feet ahead and a fellow came and wanted to decorate with a jelly that was too high. But in the second half, 16 minutes, took a terrible mistake Farré of Buenos Aires to put behind the tie and with it two goals in between.

A few minutes later, El Tanque enjoyed a great opportunity, a penalty that was not half as scandalous that not whistled above, but also was ranked Los Gallinas eleven meters of salvation. But the temper Pavone failed him and threw him almost in half, missed opportunity not to Olave, who arrested the maximum penalty to the delight of the fans and despair Cordoba millionaire.

After the error in the maximum penalty, Pavone became depressed and the party disappeared, leaving orphan heroes River. With the tank stuck in his own impotence, River was not able to sink his teeth into a Belgrano who stood firm until the referee blew the final whistle, when he escaped to the locker room swiftly to the predictable. For in regard to the violence that was presumed to make an appearance if the permanence River could not, nobody wrong. Describing not lose one second of the animal nor the fans of Los Gallinas, but to say that a prosecutor has ordered the closure of El Monumental ... Among other things, the prosecutor Galante wants to investigate whether the club management or permitted the entry of 53,000 people to a state whose official capacity is 45,000.

With the fall of River Plate to B, only Juniors and Boca de Avellaneda Independiete listed as the only teams who have never abandoned Argentine first division of Argentine football. Of the Big Five, San Lorenzo the Ravens in the year 1982-a miraculous campaign that San Lorenzo will devote a post soon. But this will require a stability that have not had in years, six technicians in the past three seasons-and recycle a team whose staff is the weakest in years. To sample what better example than Mariano Pavone, a leading figure of the team, remember, has been playing on loan from River and Betis.

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