El Fortín added their fourth game without losing by beating Tatengue 4-0 to get into the Professional League discussion.
Velez Sarsfield added his third victory in the Professional Soccer League (LPF) by thrashing 4-0 at home Union of Santa Fe, which he thus surpassed by one point in the standings at the close of the tenth round of the championship.
Those of Liniers returned to the triumph four days ago, and so far they only interspersed a 1-1 draw with Hurricane, to climb to tenth place in the positions with 13 units, one more than the Santa Fe.
But above all those led by Mauricio Pellegrino established themselves solidly at the top of the Annual Leader Board for the Copa Libertadores 2022, with four points of advantage over his most immediate pursuer, Cordoba workshops (44 against 40).
A Velez it took him a whole time, the first, and less than 10 minutes of the second to finish a match in which he could have gone to halftime break already a winner, but the goalkeeper Sebastian Moyano it prevented James Almada by containing a penalty kick shortly before 40 minutes.
But at the start of the complement and in a burst of two minutes the locals liquidated the game with the conquests of Luca Orellano and Juan Manuel Lucero placeholder image, at 9 and 11 minutes, respectively.
And from there, as Velez’s voracity flared even more instead of extinguished, Unión was left with no margin to attempt recovery, beyond some sporadic isolated counterattack generally led by the good foot of Martin Cañete.
That is why it was not surprising that about half an hour Velez will apply the coup de grace to the “tatengues” with a precise free kick executed from the right by the aforementioned Almada who found the head of Lucas janson to violate for the third time Moyano.
And there was no room for much more in the quarter of an hour that remained ahead, beyond the goal of the admitted Ricardo Centurion about the hour, and with all the letters thrown this Velez It is now projected, by squad and soccer conditions, as one of the best teams in Argentine soccer, although the top of the championship is still seven points at the moment.
It is that in the last four meetings Velez signed three goals, starting with 5 to 1 on Lanús and the 3 to 0 in front of Godoy Cruz.
On the next day, the eleventh of the championship, both today’s rivals will meet the teams from La Plata, since Velez will visit on Monday the 13th Gymnastics and Fencing, while on Wednesday 15 the unionist team will receive Students.
