Results, goals and a deliberately missed penalty in the 10 friendlies awaiting the return of the Lega Professionisti

It was a Saturday of super action for the teams of the Professional soccer league starting to warm up their engines for the start of the competition, the weekend of January 27th. Ten friendlies for all tastes with goals and curiosities.

racing the friendly match they played against drew 1-1 Colo Colo to the ownership of Tita Mattiussi, who started losing after a goal from Marcos Bolaños. The Colombian Edwin Cardona he drew the match, which featured one detail: after a dubious penalty, he kicked into the hands of the goalkeeper at the request of the coaching staff led by Fernando Gago.

The match is one of many that Racing is preparing to play on 20 January against Boca, in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), for the 2022 International Super Cup. Full-back Facundo Mura would not be available for that match, then after ascertaining that the former Colón de Santa Fe player is suffering from a fracture of the second and third metacarpal of his left hand.

Students He also had his essay earlier United Curico from Chile – strictly speaking they played two games of 50 minutes each – with good results for the team led by Abel Balbo. In the first they won 1-0 with goals from Mauro Boselli, in the second they won 2-0 with goals from Pablo Piatti and Mauro Méndez. The click on Monday he will train and in the afternoon he will travel to Uruguay to play two friendlies with Peñarol and Atlético Tucumán.

Another of Saturday’s friendlies was the one that Tigerwith a mixed line-up of starters and substitutes, beaten United Defenders de Zárate 1-0, with a goal by Matthew Retegui. In the second meeting the Bullfighter won 3-0 with goals from Agustín Obando, Blas Armoa and Matías Espíndola. Diego Martínez’s team will debut in the tournament on Saturday the 28th against Estudiantes, in La Plata, starting at 19:15.

Cordoba Instituterecently promoted to the Professional League, defeated Godoy Cruz de Mendoza by 1 to 0 in a friendly match played in the city of Río Segundo. Franco Watson, author of the only goal in two 40-minute halves. The Glory will be measured on Thursday against Gym in Estancia Chica, while Tomba will do it against Belgrano, on Monday.

Explained in two meetings, Newell’s could not with Union. Manager Gabriel Heinze organized two lineups mixing starters and substitutes. In the first meeting he measured himself against the holders of the Tatengue 1 to 1 with goals by Marco Portillo for the people of Rosario and Jerónimo Domina, for the people of Santa Fe.

The replacement team Union defeated Gringo’s other team 3-2. The goals of Tatengue they were converted by the Paraguayan striker Junior Marabelon two occasions, and by Javier Cabrera, all in the complement. Guglielmo Balzi -with which he won in the first half- and for Misael Jaimein the complement, they were the authors of the goals of Leprosy.

For his part, Defense and Justice prevailed before Young Argentines 3-0, with goals by Nicolás Fernández on two occasions and Federico Versaci. Huracán and Platense drew without a goal in a game played at the Globo venue, spanning two 35-minute periods.

Sarmiento de Junin passed flandria, from the First National team, 2-0 at home. Sarmiento’s goals came from the experienced Lisandro López and Javier Toledo, both in full complement.

wool Y Bolivar from Bolivia drew 1-1 in the friendly match in which Garnet played at home on the Argentine Football Federation (AFA) field in the city of Ezeiza.

Banfield Y sports Armenian Al Taladro played two friendlies with the same result in favor of the locals: 2-0 on both occasions. Nicolás Sosa Sánchez and Andres Chávez, the scorers of the first game and Juan Cruz and Lucas Palavecino, those of the second.