Godoy Cruz beat Racing Club yesterday 2-0, in a match played at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium, in the province of Mendoza, and valid for the second date of the Professional Football League.
The goals of the Mendoza team were scored twice by the Uruguayan striker Salomón Rodríguez, at seven and 25 minutes of the second stage. Both teams have three units.
The game had both teams with little initiative with the ball and, although the visit had a little more, it did not bring any danger to the goal defended by Diego “Ruso” Rodríguez, from the past in Independiente.
At 35 minutes, Racing forward Tomás Chancalay was sent off for a foul against Pier Barrios, a situation that did not alter the performance of the match.
In the second half, the locals came out better than their rival with the advantage of having one more player on the field, something that gave them the chance to get a little closer to Gastón Gómez’s goal.
After seven minutes, Salomón Rodríguez opened the scoring with a header, without a mark, and after a center by Martín Ojeda from the left, to put his team ahead.
After the goal in favor, the Mendoza team took more confidence and became the owner of the ball against a lackluster Racing and without ideas.
Despite remaining equal in numbers after 18 minutes due to Franco Negri’s expulsion, Tomba was the clear protagonist of the match and the one with the most dangerous chances in the rival goal.
So it was that after 25 minutes the recently admitted Tomás Allende took out an accurate center for the “charrúa” Rodríguez to score again.
The remaining minutes until the end of the game were lackluster and messy in terms of creation, a situation that served the locals to keep the three points.
Santa Fe, in brown
Colón and Unión de Santa Fe equaled yesterday in the classic by 2 to 2 in a vibrant match corresponding to the second date of the Professional Football League (LPF), which the local dominated at will at times and that escaped towards the end based on a disputed penalty kick awarded by referee Darío Herrera.
Unión took the lead in the first half with a goal from Mauro Luna Diale and in the complement Facundo Farías, from a penalty kick, and Ramón “Wanchope” Abila turned the score around, but the penalty came at the end, sanctioned by the referee by the hand of Eric Meza who converted the Uruguayan Jonatan Alvez.
Herrera, who sanctioned the foul despite the fact that Meza came out at the crossroads of a Lucas Esquivel shot with both arms crossed behind his back, correctly expelled Facundo Garcés and Juan Carlos Portillo, both for treacherous infractions.
