River could not stand in a match, lost to Inter and was eliminated from the Club World Cup

Seattle (special envoy) – River Plate He tried to play equal to Inter from Milan, but lost 2-0 in the Lumen Field of Seattle for the third and last date of Group E of the Club World Cup 2025 and was eliminated from the championship.

Marcelo Gallardo’s team went out to play aware that he should at least make a goal to achieve the passage to the round of 16. In the first half, with a crowd in his favor, he was in a game, although far from disturbing Yann Sommer. In the complement everything changed and He suffered a defeat as painful as expected.

The news in the Monterrey game arrived very fast: before the end of the first stage he already won Monterrey 3-0, which forced River to win. That result did not change the plans too much, because the search was to try to attack, but He did uncontrolled emotions.

The concentration and serenity that the team showed until the Mexican victory disappeared in the second 45 minutes. He could no longer contain Lautaro Martínez or the triangulations of the Italians. The plan fell because it could not accommodate the bad news of others.

Inter had several clear occasions until At 27 Francesco Pio Esposito converted 1-0. The Nerazzuro took very little to take advantage of numerical superiority, six minutes before Lucas Martínez Quarta had been expelled after failing in a control and committing an infraction in a manifest goal position.

Shortly before that sequence, Gallardo had made two surprising changes: The youth Giorgio Costantini and Manuel Lanzini entered the midfield, which took an unpublished way, without players with defensive profile. Of course, the DT played it, but the plan did not work. In discount time, Alessandro Bastoni scored the final 2-0.

River was ashamed and temperament, but that is not enough to compete against the runner -up of Europe. Franco Mastantuono could not exhibit his category and the few occasions of the goal that the team generated were failed. He knew that he could not be wrong in any aspect and those mistakes were paid.