Showing posts with label Tigre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tigre. Show all posts
Mariano Donda golazo vs Tigre, Clausura 2011
On 27 March 2011 Tigre hosted Godoy Cruz in the seventh round of the Clausure 2011 tournement in Argentina. Mariano Donda had a brilliant first half, scoring this piledriver of a free kick and providing the cross for Álvaro Navarro to head home a second goal for the visitors. Tigre fought back in the second half with a couple of goals from Denis Stracqualursi to salvage a 2-2 draw.
Martín Galmarini sent off and goal disallowed for an imaginary handball
After a weekend of controversial refereeing decisions in round six of the 2011 Clausura Gimnasia y Esgrima played Tigre in the early Monday evening kick-off. The first half of this relegation six pointer finished one apiece after a well taken goal from Diego Morales for the visitors and an equally good equaliser for Gimnasia from Juan Neira.
Referee Germán Delfino seemed to be strongly favouring the home side, especcially after ignoring their penalty appeals for a blatant shirt pull and shove on Denis Straqualursi. In the 57th minute Delfino really made his mark on the game, deciding to send off Tigre's Martín Galmarini and cancel the goal he had just scored for an imaginary handball offence, the replay shows that Galmarini's hand was up but nowhere near the ball. Note the disingenuous nature of the Gimnasia defender Aguero appealing for handball when he knew that he himself headed the ball towards his own goal.
What made it even worse is that the ten men of Tigre conceded another goal and lost the game 2-1.
More controversies from fecha 6
Independiente 0-1 Tigre, Apertura 2010
On 6 February 2011 the final postponed game from the Apertura 2010 championship was played between Independiente and Tigre. The game had been suspended because of Independiente's run to the final of Copa Sudamericana 2010 which they won.
The game had significance for both sides, Tigre's Denis Straqualursi could become tournament joint top scorer with a single goal or overall top scorer with two. Independiente needed to win the game in order to avoid an embarassing bottom of the table finish.
As it turned out Straqualursi got his goal in a 1-0 win and finished the tournament as joint top scorer with Vélez Sársfield's Santiago Silva. Independiente finished bottom of the table.
Lujos: Rúben Botta vs Estudiantes, Apertura 2010
On 13 November 2010 Tigre hosted league leaders Estudientes de La Plata in the 14th round of Apertura 2010. As the game was going into the last few minutes of the 2nd half the home team were down to 10 players after the dismissal of Román Martínez but 2-1 ahead.
Instead of running the ball into the corner flag to kill time they were intent on playing attacking football to the end, an approach epitomised by this play from 20 year old substitute Rubén Botta.
Pigeon killer Aguirre
It was the most important game in the history of Club Atlético Tigre. It was the first leg of the 3 way playoff at the end of the Apertura 2008 championship.There was a huge TV audience for this unexpected pre-Christmas bonus game and they all saw San Lorenzo's Gastón Aguirre kill an innocent pigeon.
For those of you who are actually interested in the football the results were:
Tigre 1-2 San Lorenzo
Boca Juniors 3-1 San Lorenzo
Boca Juniors 0-1 Tigre
Which meant that Boca Juniors won on goal difference, a tad unfair considering that at the end of the regular season San Lorenzo had by far the better goal difference and Tigre had the better head-to-head but they had to play the end of season playoff with Boca Juniors who were awarded the championship on goaldifference after a 3 way tie.
See also
For more crazy South American football check out the rest of the Cosas locas series.
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