translated from Spanish: Lucas Pusineri, his grandmother’s photo and a cabal that saved Independent

After the classic defeat to Racing, Independiente could not raise his head. Although he had won 1-0 against Fortaleza in the first leg at the Libertadores de América, the team’s image was not good and was confirmed in the following matches, where he matched on the last play against Arsenal and lost to Gimnasia, also at the close of the match. This time, the fate of “Red” was in Brazil where much of the semester was played. The visit to Ceará to try to close the standings became an odyssey and ended up being a miracle, after losing 2 to 0 and with the match entering the discount, which opened up a new concern in the club.

However, at that time and already played all or nothing, Lucas Pusineri took all the eyes of the cameras, when out of his pocket he took the picture of his grandmother and surrendered to it as the lucky charm. While he has always carried her, this time it seemed that she was responsible for the agonizing classification. From the 80th minute onwards, the coach’s kisses to the photo became the focus of the television cameras and so it was also like the 92 minutes and after the overflow of Bustos, the madness was unleashed in the substitutes bench for the 1-2 and the classification in Brazil.

Independiente achieved the award ranked in Fortaleza with a goal in the time off. Photo: Twitter @Sudamericana

After it, again everything was focused on Pusineri, who until the match was over did not come out of his grandmother who accompanied him at all times and, stop, ended up giving him a hand so that Independiente is still in the race and can breathe in this moment of tension.

Original source in Spanish