Match Recap
Marcos Acuña needed just six minutes to put River Plate in control, and that early strike was enough to see off Estudiantes de Rio Cuarto in Liga Profesional Argentina. River never looked troubled from there, grinding out a 1-0 win that stretches their head-to-head dominance over this opponent, having won the only previous meeting between the two sides. The table tells its own story: River sit second with 29 points from five games on the back of a LWWWD run, while Estudiantes de Rio Cuarto are rooted at 15th with just five points and five results without a win, reading LLLLD. Facing a side that form like that, conceding inside the opening ten minutes turned the rest of the afternoon into an uphill climb for the visitors. Acuña's early finish set the tone from kickoff, and it is the goal worth rewinding to see exactly how quickly River seized this one.
