Defense and Justice took the lead 7 minutes into the first half with a headed goal by Walter Bou that he placed to the right of Sebastian Torrico of an assist from Francisco Pizzini.
And at 28 of the same period Michael Merentielassisted by Rodolfo Rotondi, defined from the right to convert the second, changing the assister to a scorer at 2 of the second half, again after a pass from pizzini, to convert he converted the third for the ‘Halcón de Varela’.
San Lorenzo discounted in the second half with a flurry of plays: at 8 Agustin Martegani with a right hand from outside the area and at 13 with a header from Christian Zapata‘. But Pizzini sealed the result with his fourth goal, although the locals at 45 discounted with the goal against Alexis Soto.
At the beginning Defense and Justice started controlling the ball and with Carlos Rodolfo Rotondi emerging from the left as the sharpest attacker, and at 7 minutes Francisco Pizzini assisted from the right to Walter Bou which opened the scoring head.
Despite losing San Lorenzo did not react and Defense and Justice continued attacking, in search of the second goal, with advances of Miguel Merentiel, Bou, Rotondi and Pizzini.
So it was that at 22 minutes Pizzini defined diagonally from the left, and the ball grazed the base of the left post defended by Sebastian Torrico.
San Lorenzo responded at 27 when Ivan Leguizamon demanded the goalkeeper Ezequiel Unsain, but from that play, Defense and Justice came out against and at 28 Rotondi assisted merentiel so that he can define with his right foot and convert the second goal of the Halcón de Varela.
The local team did not respond, they did not press in the middle of the field to be able to recover the ball and to be able to put together dangerous attacks.
In the second half everything remains the same and after 2 minutes Pizzini sent a cross from the right that Rotondi pushed with his left foot to score the third for Varela’s team.
But San Lorenzo discounted with the newly admitted Agustin Marteganiwho at 9 defined from the right from outside the area and at 13 Christian Zapata with a header to the far post, he scored the second for the ‘azulgrana’ team, which began to balance the match.
at 24, Torrico he was held back by a penalty executed by merentiel, one hand in the area of Thomas Silva.
Pizzini at 35, he sentenced the match with the fourth goal, assisted by the admitted Thomas Galvanalthough at 45 Alexis Soto against put him in suspense at the end of the match.
For this match, the team led by Pedro Troglio suffered the loss of midfielders Néstor Ortigoza due to plantar fasciitis and Yeison Gordillo, expelled in the 1-0 loss against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, as well as defender Federico Gattoni, due to present some lines of fever (it gave a negative PCR).
On the other hand, goalkeeper Sebastián ‘El Cóndor’ Torrico, emblem of San Lorenzo and one of the few remaining players along with Néstor Ortigoza and Nicolás Blandi from the winning squad of the 2014 Copa Libertadores de América, will turn 42 tomorrow, being the player oldest in the first division of Argentine soccer.
The Boedo team that today returned to the New Gasometer, after the match that beat Newell’s 3-2 on December 12, began the tournament with two away games: a goalless draw against Banfield on the first date and a defeat in the La Plata forest against Gimnasia 1-0, on the second day.
Defense and Justice, on the other hand, fell in their debut in Rosario against Newell’s (1-0) and later overcame a two-goal deficit and was able to add their first point after equalizing 2-2 against Racing in Florencio Varela.
On the next date, the fourth, San Lorenzo will play in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Paternal against Argentinos Juniors, also from 9:30 p.m. next Sunday 27 and Defense and Justice, will receive at their stadium on Friday 25 from 7 p.m.: 15 to Gymnastics and Fencing of La Plata.
=Synthesis=
San Lorenzo: Sebastian Torrico; Gino Peruzzi, Francisco Flores, Cristian Zapata and Gonzalo Luján; Siro Rosane and Nicolás Fernández Mercau; Malcom Braida, Iván Leguizamón, Ricardo Centurión and;Nicolás Fernández. DT: Pedro Troglio.
Defense and Justice: Ezequiel Unsain; Nicolás Tripichio, Adonis Frías, Nazareno Colombo and Alexis Soto; Raúl Loaiza, Kevin Gutiérrez and Francisco Pizzini; Walter Bou and Rodolfo Rotondi; and Miguel Merentiel. DT: Sebastian Beccacece.
Goals in the first half: 7m Walter Bou (D); 28m Miguel Merentiel (D).
Goals in the second half: 2m Rodolfo Rotondi ((D); 8m Agustín Martegani (S); 13m Cristian Zapata (S); 35m Francisco Pizzini (D) and 47m Alexis Soto -against-
Substitution in the first half: 32m Tomás Silva for Luján (S).
Changes in the second half: At the beginning Jeremías James for Peruzzi and Agustín Martegani for Leguizamon (S); 8m Adam Bareiro for Mercau (S); 31m Ezequiel Cerutti for Braida (S); Tomás Galván for Loaiza (D); 40m Lucas Albertengo for Merentiel and Agustín Fontana for Bou(D); 43m Brahian Neck by Pizzini and Gabriel Alanis by Rotondi (D).
Booked: Soto and Gutiérrez (D). Silva (S)
Stadium: Pedro Bidegain.
Referee: Leandro Rey Hilfer.
Source: Ambito
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