After Leonardo Campana missed the goal that was sung “on the hour, when I went to the penalty shootout (memories of) the two finals against Chile in the Copa América, the one in 2015 and 2016,” Gerardo admitted at the press conference. Martino, after the painful victory of his Inter Miami in the League Cup final, on Saturday night. He dad He was the coach of the Albiceleste team, which was also led by Lionel Messi, when it suffered those two painful defeats in the final against Chile, both decided on penalties.

Luck this time didn’t turn its back on Martin – or Messi – who saw his Inter beat Nashville SC 10-9 in a dramatic shootout (1-1 in regular time) after opposition goalkeeper Elliot Panicco missed a save. Inter’s goalkeeper Drake Callender scored his own, just before stopping a shot from fellow opponent Panicco.

On the new resolution through the implementation of the maximum punishments shared by Messi and Martino, after the traumatic results against Chile, this Sunday newspaper Clarionfrom Buenos Aires, alludes to “the ghost of Gonzalo Higuaín” when reviewing Campana’s last-minute miss.

‘unusual definition’

A note at the beginning says: “Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami became League Cup champions, but the victory in the final against Nashville was much more painful than expected. The match had a great goal from the Argentinian striker, but the home team equalized and everything was decided in the penalty shootout”.

Then the newspapers focus on the action of Campana, who in the 90th minute looked as if he would become the hero of Inter Miami, in an action that was excellently facilitated by the Spaniard Sergio Busquets. “It was only a tie despite the fact that the pink team was on the verge of winning with a goal in the last moment of the game. The Ecuadorian Campana ran out, went one-on-one with the goalkeeper and tried an unusual definition: first he tried to dribble, and then he had to throw himself in order to put the ball into the net from too close and he threw it out.

and right inside Clarioncomparisons between Campana and Higuaín: “The failed attempt by the team’s top scorer until the arrival of Messi didn’t get the expected result, but quickly trended on Twitter, mentioning another number 9: Gonzalo Higuaín.”

Like Higuain

It added: “It’s about the fact that the failure of Campana to throw himself on the floor had a lot of who he had Tube in the final against Chile, at the 2015 Copa América played in the Trans-Andean country, which ended in a draw and went to penalties, with a favorable result for La Roja”.

And while the note doesn’t recall Higuain’s resounding error in the 2014 World Cup final, lost 1-0 to Germany (with Alejandro Sabella as coach), it mentions another goal the retired striker conceded against Chile. “Also, another chance the former striker Rivera had against the same opponent in the 2016 Copa Centenario, when he decided to score and his shot went wide of the goalkeeper’s left post,” he recalls. Clarion.

After those three errors in definition that left Argentina with three second places, the reprimands and penalties were not against Higuaín, but against Messi. He tube he went on holiday to Ibiza, Spain, where he signed autographs and accepted selfies; the FleaInstead, he retreated to his home and after the 2016 Copa América, he briefly withdrew from his team.

‘Ring the bell, incredible’

According to the newspaper note Nation, from Buenos Aires, “in one of the last performances, Messi tried to combine with Jordi Alba, but the defender was not in his evening. More incredible was the goal that Leonardo Campana missed for Inter Miami in the last game of the final”.

Agency AFP He said this: “There was still time for Leonardo Campana, who replaced Josef Martinez, to miss a goal just before the penalty shootout, hitting the post with an empty goal.”

Campana was Ecuador’s scorer in the South American under-20 competition won by the Tricolori in 2019 and at the World Cup in that category the same year, where the national team won the bronze medal. However, since that stage, the promising forward of Guayaquil (he is now 23 years old) has not worked in football in England, Portugal, Switzerland, and he is a substitute in MLS. In the penalty shootout against Nashville SC, Campana was successful in his collection.

The Leagues Cup is a tournament where 47 teams from the North American and Mexican leagues compete. In MLS, Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami ranks last in the standings. (D)