San Lorenzo beats Banfield in the South with a pirouette by Perrito Barrios in the last game

The last dance of the evening is played on Florencio Sola’s green cloth. Nobody is willing to risk. At that point, Julio César Falcioni and Rubén Darío Insua played all their chips in the middle of the field. But there’s still a bet to be made when no one imagined they could break the bank. And comes the long side of Gonzalo Luján, the head of Andrés Vombergar and a plenary session by Nahuel Barrios. Just when San Lorenzo was doing the math and he heard River was running away, the smallest of the field gave him a big prize. After three consecutive draws, he added three points and warns they will fight until the end. Like tonight in front of the Banfield.

The party was heading straight for a bland equality. Two goals, it’s true, but very little dynamic, apart from a period in the first half, in which Banfield found themselves behind, and a good moment after the game. A goal from a side kick leaves the defense exposed. Even the liveliness of the attackers. above all, of Cub. San Lorenzo took too much.

There was a special energy about Peña y Arenales. Basically, due to the return of the emperor. Flags with dedications, songs and cheer. And he left Banfield with a better image, especially in the first phase. When the shackles of conservatism were released, he was far more poignant than San Lorenzo.

He was in a 4-4-2 that had Brahian Alemán driving inside and Ignacio Rodríguez on the left, clearing the lane for Emanuel Insúa, very punchy in that sector. And when the team needed him most, he flowed in to generate play for the equalizer. He did so with a cross that went behind a wall with Ignacio Rodríguez, who held his back and unloaded for the Uruguayan. At the far post, Juan Bisanz puts a small dove between Malcom Braida and Federico Gattoni and shoots at Augusto Batalla.

San Lorenzo has shown the same recipe that has led it to be very competitive in this championship. Tactically, Insua stopped a 3-4-3 formation in which Jalil Elías appeared as a winger-midfielder on the right and Agustín Martegani joined in midfield to give him more play volume. The best was on the left, where Braida and Barrios put together a nice tandem. Thus was produced the goal which he cut with a drought of 281 minutes.

Martegani sets up Braida, the Cordoban hits the cross, the ball deflected past the Venezuelan Luis Mago and Elías emerges from the other sector to dribble inwards and define with his left foot against Facundo Cambeses.

From that moment Banfield detaches itself from the cautious attitude it had exhibited at the beginning: the two lines are very compact and ready to give up the initiative to hurt with a long pass from the front for the two centre-forwards or a cross for the wingers of midfield. San Lorenzo suffered, especially behind Braida because Bisanz always demanded. On the other hand, it is said, Insúa grew. And the battle area began to fill with questions.

He made it against a Banfield goal against San Lorenzo and generated three clear plays, one after the other, before that goal which arrived by decantation. A Chilean from Alemán just deflected, a free-kick from the same Uruguayan that touches the wall and gets lost in the corner and a left-footed bomb from Bisanz that Batalla covers.

San Lorenzo ran a lot, but played very little. And Adam Bareiro was imprisoned by his ineffectiveness. Ezequiel Cerutti left him one-on-one with Facundo Cambeses, but the Paraguayan got tangled with the ball and they anticipated him when he was about to resolve with his left foot. He couldn’t even take advantage of the blocked ball that Insúa’s team use so well. Banfield had one more before the end of the first phase, a cross from Bisanz which Sebastián Sosa Sánchez brought down and Milton Giménez clipped just wide.

There was a controversial comedy. Insúa’s expulsion was requested for a blow on Cerutti. Fernando Echenique booked and the VAR backed him up.

In the second half, San Lorenzo reacts. Always with Barrios as the big engine. Cerutti couldn’t with Cambeses at the start. And then it came the show of changes Insua removed Carlos Sánchez, brought Elías back to his natural place and Luján came on to play on the side. Also, Vombergar tries to team up with a soulless Bareiro.

Falcioni renewed the attack with Andrés Chávez and the midfield with Matías Romero, but seemed to lower the blind with the introduction of a midfielder (Eric Remedi) by a striker (Sosa Sánchez).

There was a lack of Vombergar on Remedi Che deserved a second yellow. Echenique reached into her pocket, but regretted it.

Everything was ordinary, cut, with centers that made Barça’s central defenders shine and little emotion. Until Barrios’ goal that overshadowed the remake by Falcioni and He left San Lorenzo alive in the great battle.