Godoy Cruz beats Platense in the final and is the first to qualify for the quarterfinals

Godoy Cruz beat 2-1 Platense in the middle of the match and becomes the first qualified from zone B to the League Cup quarter-finals. The winning goal was scored by Mariano Santiago (22 years old, former Almirante Marrone), on his debut with Tomba. El Calamar played more than 60 minutes in 10 players due to the sending off of Ignacio Vázquez.

Tomba had 20 minutes for applause. He had an opportunity in the minute which Badaloni wasted and scored the goal after two minutes from a cross from Altamira, Conechny lowered for the goal shot. Hernán López Muñoz. And then he generated several situations where he couldn’t connect. The free Conechny was a nightmare for the local defense, in addition to the constant changes in front.

The local team managed to overcome that flash, began to draw the match and Tomba showed another team, weaker, more doubtful. Petroli was good at intervening and avoiding the equalizer, then there was the approach in Serie A to the goal of Petroli, who made a good intervention. Then Lucas Ocampo shot over the crossbar. And in the 27th minute the equalizer arrived, with a corner kick from Ocampo coming in, the visiting goalkeeper had a weak reaction and the ball was left to Pellegrino for the equalizer.

After the 1-1 draw, Platense were encouraged to try to double their lead and when they were dominating in all areas, Ignacio Vázquez was sent off after elbowing Thomas Galdames. The referee Sebastián Zunino, well positioned, immediately gave him the red card. However, the squid player, angry at the decision, was slow to leave the playing field. He asked for the action to be reviewed by VAR, which had already been done and which had ratified Zunino’s decision.

He came out after six minutes and when he came out, he saw that the rival bench was laughing, he scolded the goalkeeper Roberto Ramírez, who responded. The Squid defender went down and was separated. The referee went to the scene and showed Ramírez the red card. “I saw you,” he told her.

Despite the victory in the final, Godoy Cruz was never able to impose numerical superiority. Platense also had several situations to win the victory, the most obvious was an escape from Russo, who found himself face to face with Petroli and the goalkeeper won the duel and sent the ball into the corner. Everything good that Mendoza’s team had done in the first 20 minutes of the game was forgotten.

In the final minutes the visitor was encouraged, making use of some spaces. Cejas collided with Juan Pablo Cozzani and the goalkeeper won. The goal came from the outside. The ball arrives in the area after a cross from Pier Barrios to Salomón Rodríguez, who tries to dominate the ball, Cozzani goes to look for it, Suso takes it away from him, it’s Mariano Santiago’s turn who finishes on goal, the ball hit Juárez, newly admitted, and entered. An unfair victory but worth a ranking.