Cambeses saved four penalties and Banfield eliminated Godoy Cruz to become a semi-finalist in the Argentine Cup

banfield For the first time in its history, it reached the semifinals of the Argentine Cup. He joined him after breaking another record: of the five times he has established a match on penalties in this competition, it was the first time he managed to overcome it. The winner of the match they will play on Wednesday Independent Y Cordoba workshops will be the rival Drill.

And the hero of those led by Claudio Vivas was the goalkeeper Facundo Cambeses, who saved a penalty in the regular 90 minutes e three out of four shots in the definition, to put them among the four best teams of the supplementary tournament.

The game started with everything. Two penalties had already been taken within 10 minutes. The first, when Jesus gave him took charge of the shot after the infringement in the penalty area Russian Rodriguez a Maurizio leather. The goalkeeper was not sent off because the Colombian had hung out and was not going straight into the goal. Captain Drill kicks at half height, near the left post and opens the scoring.

Five minutes later, Aaron Quiros down towards Nestor Breitenbruch and the referee Jorge Balino He pointed to the disk. Facundo Cambeses he guessed the point for Martín Ojeda and stifled his scream, as he deflected the shot with his thigh. The rebound was left to Enzo Larrosawho took a good left, but, again, the goalkeeper hit the corner.

The striker had his rematch before the end of the first half, when he headed a shot he received in the middle Dylan Gissi Y Alessandro Maciel and this time Cambeses couldn’t do without it.

Banfield had had others. First a free-kick with a lot of thread from Jesús Dátolo that Rodríguez covered with his left and completed the deflection with his right and then a nice kick from Cuero, who fell inside the area when he had conquered the position and the ball. Claudio Vivas’s team was exhausted in those actions.

If Godoy Cruz reached a draw, it is because he finished better than Banfield. For the second time, things have not changed. It was the Tomb who proposed and the Drill who resisted and sought the imbalance on the counterattack.

Situations were spaced out until the two teams played without too much intensity. The minutes were spent and penalties were inevitable.

The first to open fire was Chávez: inside. Nelson Acevedo, the first of the Tombs, kicks in the center and Cambeses ends with a shot without too much effort. Venezuelan Luis Mago also did not fail in Banfield’s second and Allende wanted to break the door, but once again Drill’s goalkeeper guessed.

Perales did not race and Ruso Rodríguez chose the other suit. It was all at the feet of Salomón Rodríguez, who in the style of Palermo-fallen from the ground-made him. The definition is for Urzi, who sends half a meter over the crossbar. Cambeses didn’t give Vega a chance, he covered again and Banfield went to the semifinals.