Argentine League Cup Update: Racing’s Shocking Win and San Lorenzo’s Draw

The League Cup, the great objective in the first half of Argentine football

After Racing’s shocking away win over Newell’s, date 5 of the League Cup continued its course this Tuesday with other commitments, highlighting San Lorenzo’s draw at home against Estudiantes de La Plata and the equality of the leader Godoy Cruz before Unión de Santa Fe.

SAN LORENZO 1-1 STUDENTS:

Date five continued its course and one of the most captivating duels of the day took place at the Pedro Bidegain stadium, a scene that put a downtrodden San Lorenzo face to face with a Estudiantes team that was looking to climb to the top of the standings in Zone B. With the refereeing of Facundo Tello, it was Pincha that took the lead due to the good goal by Javier Correa; However, in the second half the Ciclón recovered and achieved the tie with a header from Adam Bareiro. The tie does not satisfy any of them, since the visitor played a great first half and had it to settle, while the local team saved a point but still has not won in the tournament.

The match started very tight in the middle of the field and with repeated fouls due to the local competition. Slowly the team from La Plata began to prevail in the development of the game and it took 13 minutes to open the scoring. Mauro Méndez assisted Javier Correa who, from a small angle, took a powerful shot and overcame the resistance of Gastón Gómez. The discontent of the people present at the Nuevo Gasómetro did not take long to subside when they saw the bad start of those led by Ruben Darío Insua.

Technology came into play when a possible handball by Gastón Hernández almost generated a penalty for Estudiantes. After several minutes of review, the VAR considered that it was not serious enough to charge the maximum penalty. At 40′ Pincha scored again through Méndez’s feet but he was slightly ahead so it was disallowed from the referee’s booth. Tello was at the center of the controversies with complaints from both teams and the judge only admonished Eric Meza to send the duel 1-0 at halftime.

San Lorenzo came out totally determined in the second half to achieve the tie. From the attitude he made it known in the first minutes, with two aerial chances from Diego Herazo, who replaced Tobías Medina at halftime. The Colombian thus earned his first standing ovation for his determination and drive. At five minutes, the clearest of this stage for the Ciclón, through Bareiro who finished inside the area biting the hands of Matías Mansilla.

Gallego Insua noticed that he had to go for the game and opted to put a triple nine up front: he sent Cristian Tarragona to the field for Perruzzi, who was reprimanded. Until the deserved equalizer came after a perfect header from Adam Bareiro, at 12 minutes. Pincha was slow to react and when he did, he forgave. It was the Uruguayan Mauro Méndez who had the victory on his feet, but it took him a while to define after beating Chila Gómez and they just intercepted his shot.

San Lorenzo continued to insist with the rise of its sides, especially in the sector of Jhohan Romaña, who launched a precise cross that did not end in a goal by centimeters. Bareiro’s right volley went just wide. The local team was superior and Estudiantes could not react. The minutes were diluted with a Cyclone who felt the wear and tear and had to settle for unity.

Those of Boedo, between injuries (that of goalkeeper Facundo Altamirano – fracture in the right maxillofacial -, the most significant) and low performances, opted for an important renewal within their formation to go in search of their first victory so far this season. year, but it still doesn’t appear. El Pincha, for its part, is the other side of the coin. Eduardo Domínguez’s men, who also began the defense of the title in the Argentine Cup with a victory, are in the Final Phase zone by accumulating 11 points and very close to the top of their group.

Formations

San Lorenzo: Gastón Gómez; Jhohan Romaña, Gastón Campi, Gastón Hernández; Agustín Giay, Elián Irala, Francisco Perruzzi, Malcom Braida; Tobias Medina Adam Bareiro, Nahuel Barrios. DT: Rubén Insúa.

Students: Matías Mansilla; Eros Mancuso, Santiago Flores, Zaid Romero, Eric Meza; José Sosa, Santiago Ascacíbar, Enzo Pérez, Javier Altamirano; Mauro Méndez, Javier Correa. DT: Eduardo Domínguez.

Stadium: Pedro Bidegain.

Referee: Facundo Tello.

Television: ESPN Premium.

GYMNASTICS 3-1 HURRICANE:

Gimnasia (9 points) reacted in the second half and ended up prevailing fairly over Huracán (4), in the continuity of the fifth date, zone A, of the Professional League Cup (LPF). At the Juan Carmelo Zerillo stadium, the local team overcame an initial disadvantage and achieved a good victory to discourage the ghosts that could have floated in the air due to a new defeat for coach Leonardo Madelón. Huracán, who added his fourth match without celebrations, took the lead at 34m. of the first period, through Walter Mazzantti, who took advantage of a gift from the Lobo fund to score in his first clear arrival. But Madelón’s team took on a leading role in the second half and turned history around with the achievements of Benjamín Domínguez (St. 17m.), Ivo Mammini (St. 25m.) and the Paraguayan Cristian Colmán (St. 46m.) .

Gimnasia took the initiative and pressed upwards. But his plausible attitude lacked fairness in the final meters. Just in one move, Colmán took a strong shot that went over the crossbar and almost immediately, the kid Mammini hit a violent shot that hit the face of Fernando Tobio, who had to be replaced by an erratic Guillermo Burdisso, who made his debut on the Globe. The first quarter of an hour showed dynamics on the part of the local team, but goalkeeper Galíndez, beyond some crosses, did not need to scramble too much to contain the zero in his goal.

Gimnasia beat Huracán and got into the qualification zone in the League Cup

At 17m, in addition, Domínguez made space and finished low to demand a new convincing response from the goalkeeper. Gimnasia seemed comfortable in the game looking for imbalance on the wings, with quick transitions and even projecting sides. In this context, the task of the Uruguayan Juan de Dios Pintado turned out to be extremely auspicious. Between Domínguez and Matías Abaldo they managed to unbalance the Lobo, but the forcefulness in the final stitch was still a deficit. And the Parque de los Patricios team, in the first clear shot they had, opened the account. It happened at 34m, when goalkeeper Nelson Insfrán and defender Leonardo Morales sent a joint attack and Mazzantti appeared to collect the rebound and send the ball into the net. The La Plata cast felt the blow and could not react in what remained of that first part.

Only in the second period did Lobo change the tone of the game. With the same protagonists from a good part of the 45m. starters, Benjamín Domínguez and Abaldo, Gimnasia tried to take their opponent ahead. And he looked more insistently for the tie. At about 17m, a cross from Uruguayan Pintado, at that important height in the projection, found a block in the path of Pablo De Blasis and Domínguez’s attack allowed the midfielder to establish the 1-1 tie. Lobo’s search continued against a Huracán that left more and more holes in the backfield, that scored worse and worse and that overwhelmingly felt the departure of Franco Alfonso in the middle of the field. And about 25m., Mammini alone received a precise and precious authorization from Colmán to beat Galíndez and unleash delirium in the Forest. The visiting team, more by inertia than with football, tried to advance towards the rival area. But each advance of the Globo footballers generated spaces and thus the Paraguayan striker had his chance to score, at 46m., when he received from the Uruguayan Abaldo and settled the story with a well-deserved 3-1.

Trainings:

Gymnastics: Nelson Insfrán; Juan Pintado, Leonardo Morales, Yonathan Cabral, Federico Milo; Matías Abaldo, Rodrigo Saravia, Pablo De Blasis, Benjamín Domínguez; Ivo Mammini and Cristian Colmán. DT: Leonardo Madelón.

Hurricane: Hernan Galindez, Hernan De la Fountain, Fabio Pereyra, Fernando Tobio, Guillermo Benitez; Franco Alfonso, William Alarcón, Rodrigo Echavarria, Hector Fertoli; Leandro Garate and Walter Mazzantti. DT: Facundo Sava.

Stadium: Juan Carmelo Zerillo (El Bosque).

Referee: Darío Herrera.

Television: TNT Sports.

GODOY CRUZ 0-0 UNION:

Godoy Cruz stopped his overwhelming progress of four consecutive victories in a 0-0 draw against Unión at the Malvinas Argentinas Stadium in Mendoza for the fifth round of the League Cup and, despite this result, he remained the sole leader of the Zone B thanks to Newell’s defeat against Racing on Monday night.

The negative data of the day for Tomba came from the alarms raised around the health of Tomás Pozzo. The former Independiente man left the playing field with discomfort in his left knee, the same one in which he suffered a ligament injury during his time at Rojo. This is in addition to the fact that the homeowner also did not have Hernán López Muñoz, injured.

Their goalkeeper Franco Petroli was one of the figures of the match, after he once again held his goal, a custom since the beginning of the local tournament, since he still did not receive goals. The goalkeeper appeared in the first quarter of an hour to prevent Adrián Balboa from celebrating. The response from the Cuyo cast came at 37 minutes with an unsuccessful shot by Uruguayan Salomón Rodríguez.

Upon returning from the locker room, those led by Cristian Kily González were surprised by their rival and could have their goal fall five and six minutes into the second half with two attempts by Marcos Montiel deflected by the goalkeeper, Nicolás Campisi. With the clock ticking, Tatengue established their plan to retreat into their own field and go on a counterattack. He ended up rescuing a unit in a difficult scenario and finished in eighth place with five points, five away from qualifying for the quarterfinals of the competition.

With the final whistle, Petroli surpassed Godoy Cruz’s unbeaten record in goal, reaching 450 minutes without a goal against, which surpassed the club’s previous record held by Nelson Ibáñez, now field assistant. from coach Daniel Oldrá, who remained 385 minutes without conceding goals.

On the sixth date, Godoy Cruz will visit Racing in Avellaneda this Saturday from 7:00 p.m., while this Monday Unión will host Platense in Santa Fe at 9:30 p.m.

Trainings:

Godoy Cruz: Franco Petroli; Lucas Arce, Braian Salvareschi, Thomas Galdames, Elías Pereyra; Marcos Montiel, Juan Andrada, Tomás Pozzo; Juan Bautista Cejas, Salomón Rodríguez and Tomás Conechny. DT: Daniel Oldrá.

Union: Nicolás Campisi; Federico Vera, Nicolás Paz, Miguel Torrén, Claudio Corvalán, Bruno Pittón; Mauro Pittón, Joaquín Mosqueira, Mateo Del Blanco; Lucas Gamba and Adrián Balboa. DT: Cristian González.

Stadium: Malvinas Argentinas (Mendoza).

Referee: Yael Falcón Pérez.

Positions table:

* With information from Télam

2024-02-14 03:18:00
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