River Plate and Monterrey draw in feisty clash

LOS ANGELES, June 21 (Reuters) - Monterrey held connected to assertion a 0-0 gully with River Plate successful a prickly Group E clash astatine the Rose Bowl successful Pasadena successful the Club World Cup connected Saturday arsenic some clubs maintained their hopes of advancing to the knockout rounds.

Goalkeeper Esteban Andrada made captious second-half saves from Franco Mastantuono and Miguel Borja to unafraid a constituent for the Mexican side, who had drawn their opening crippled against Inter Milan connected Tuesday.

River Plate's Kevin Castaño was sent disconnected successful wounded clip for a 2nd bookable offence arsenic his broadside moved level connected 4 points with the Italians astatine the apical of standings. Monterrey beryllium 2 points down the Argentinian side.

Amid a carnival ambiance astatine the Rose Bowl, River Plate defender Paulo Díaz had an aboriginal show of extremity erstwhile helium steered a header implicit the bar.

Sergio Canales' tally from the halfway enactment ended with River Plate's Franco Armani making a prevention to his right, and Gerardo Arteaga blasted implicit the people erstwhile the shot yet landed astatine his feet connected the borderline of the area.

That was to beryllium a uncommon show of the people for the Mexicans, with River Plate slicing their mode done the Monterrey defence precocious successful the half.

In a frantic extremity to an different disjointed opening 45 minutes, Mastantuono played Castano into abstraction wrong the country and his cutback recovered Giuliano Galoppo, whose onslaught connected extremity was deflected wide.

Lucas Martínez Quarta should person enactment River Plate up from the resulting corner, the cardinal defender pushing his volley crossed the look of goal. Mastantuono past saw an effort deflected wide.

Arteaga hacked Galoppo's effort disconnected the enactment arsenic the broadside from Buenos Aires accrued the unit successful the aboriginal stages of the 2nd half, portion Andrada was connected manus to contradict Mastantuono arsenic the crippled approached the last quarter.

Enzo Perez slipped done the Monterrey midfield to provender the Real Madrid-bound winger connected the close broadside of the area, but the goalkeeper work the 17-year-old's intentions and pushed his curling left-foot changeable to safety.

Andrada past raced disconnected his enactment to contradict Borja 14 minutes from time, and the goalkeeper was successful presumption again successful the dying moments to artifact different effort by the 2nd fractional substitute.

River Plate finished the crippled shorthanded erstwhile Castano brought down Nelson Deossa arsenic helium attempted to motorboat a precocious counterattack, the midfielder sent disconnected aft picking up his 2nd booking.

River Plate volition adjacent look Inter Milan successful Seattle connected Wednesday, portion Monterrey instrumentality connected already-eliminated Urawa Red Diamonds from Japan astatine the Rose Bowl.