Four dates remain ahead in the Professional League Cup before the quarterfinals begin. And the two zones deliver completely different scenarios. Zone A, which has Racing, the best team in the competition, as the leader, is in a very tough battle with an uncertain outlook. La B, where Estudiantes leads, seems to have clearer candidates for the four boxes at stake. But better go in parts.

Nothing could stop Racing, who beat Unión 1-0 with a goal by Enzo Copetti and led with 24 points-seven wins and three draws-to have a margin of six points in the fourth when there were 12 left at stake. Only one disaster could get Fernando Gago’s team into the playoffs. Tatengue, on the other hand, continues to dream. You know that a journey is not a fall.

This was followed by River, with 22, who won a controversial and controversial victory over Banfield (14), who spun the game with the help of VAR and had a jewel from Matías Suárez after the combination of Juanfer Quintero and Enzo Fernández . Marcelo Gallardo’s seem to have guaranteed their place, while Diego Dabove’s, irregular, is still dreaming of a run over final.

Exactly, Drill will see them this Wednesday in Rosario along with Newell’s, another that seems to work at cruising speed thanks to Javier Sanguinetti. La Lepra defeated the Patronato through a goal by Sordo and finished third with 19 points. Meanwhile, those from Paraná, are already thinking about the League in the second semester and their average is rising -now it has fallen to the First National-.

The fourth box was for Defense and Justice (18), who again skated at home and undefeated Atlético Tucumán, who debuted Lucas Pusineri on the bench. 1-1 had little taste for Beccacece’s staff, while it was a good starting point for Tucumán, who was otherwise thinking about the next tournament.

Of the 17 units, Argentines, Unión and Sarmiento de Junín will appear as expected. El Bicho took advantage of Talleres ’bad moment, under zone A. And el Verde was another pleasant surprise and showed its potential in a good victory over Gimnasia by 3-1 in the match that opened the day. .

And there was no real chance, although there were mathematical ones, there was San Lorenzo and Platense, who were left with 8 points after 2-2 on the New Gasometer.

In Zone B everything seems to be more resolved. Send that goal-scoring machine Estudiantes, who beat Barracas Central 6-1 in an exhibition with Tomás A. Ducó at Parque Patricios. Ang Handsomereborn with Alfredo Berti as DT, still dreaming: he was just five points off the fourth step.

Sa click this is followed by the Tigers, Diego Martínez’s team that doesn’t weigh a change in the category. They beat Huracán 2-1, sailing through its intermissions and seemingly far from the classification zone, although it was just six points behind Boca.

At the same level of the Tigers is Martín Palermo’s Aldosivi, a more sober team that beat Rosario Central, another thinking about the next tournament.

Complete, so far, the quota of quarterfinalists Boca, who continues to show performance weaknesses and had to settle at 1-1 with little flavor -and as well as controversy over not showing VAR- against Lanús by Jorge Almirón.

Sebastián Battaglia’s team had three points by the margin against Colón, the fifth in contention, who could not beat Independiente, sixth, in an entertaining game in Santa Fe with a goal in Pulga Rodríguez’s anthology from a free kick. The two still have a chance, but they seem to be their own enemies because of their irregularities.

One point below are Vélez and Godoy Cruz, two others who tied -on Sunday, in Mendoza- and seem to be in a transition period with changes in coaches and a game that never ends.

They share a lot with Huracán and Central Córdoba, who tied 3-3 with Arsenal in Santiago del Estero. It was another parda that left them far behind in battle, though they still couldn’t get rid of arithmetic.

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