The front Mark Leonard put the locals ahead with a penalty kick, at 37 minutes, while Nicolás Domingo, at 45, with a great goal from mid-range, equalized for the visit.
The players of banfield, Jesus Datoloat 7 minutes, and Gregorio Tancoat 15, both of the complement were expelled for a double reprimand.
The Argentine team closed its participation in the international competition with this result and finished in last position in its area, while the local team reached the round of 16 by a goal difference.
Saints took the initiative of the game with the premise of winning to qualify and not suffer while waiting for other results and intensified his role even more when it was learned that La Calera Union from Chile won and left it out of the round of 16.
Despite the superior domain in the first minutes, banfield managed to balance the lawsuit and showed some interesting passages with Sunday pulling the strings and good but not productive appearances by Juan Cruz and Maximiliano Cuadra.
Although the match was even, the Peruvian referee Menéndez sanctioned a controversial penalty on striker Marcos Leonardo by Tanco and the Brazilian attacker changed the foul for a goal a minute later with a dry shot in the middle.
The “Drill” did not deserve to go missing in the locker room in the first stage and before that, Sunday He manufactured a real goal to give some justice to the game: the midfielder took the ball and with a right hand of more than 35 meters directed the ball to the upper left corner of goalkeeper Joao Paulo.
Already in the complement, the Argentine team tried to take advantage of the final sprint that they had in the first stage and it was a little more than the local team, however, Jesus Datolo In a childish and unnecessary action in the middle of the field, he threw himself to sweep, hit his opponent and saw his second yellow card, which meant his expulsion.
Things got complicated for banfield with one less man and they became even more complex when at 15 minutes, the referee charged a non-existent foul by Tanco and decided to apply a new yellow card, which led to a new expulsion and left with nine footballers to face the little more than half an hour of game left.
After the sanctions, the coach Claudio Vivas decided to look for alternatives in the bench of substitutes and proposed with the changes a totally defensive scheme, for his part, the local bet on offensive relays and populated the Banfield field of soccer players with goal arrival .
The rest of the match was all Santos’ dominance, which stalked and collided with the defensive block that the Argentine team raised and when it was overcome, Enrique Bologna responded in a great way -despite a hesitant start- and kept the epic equality for Banfield , although their rival managed to reach the round of 16 by difference of one goal with Unión La Calera.
formations
Saints: Joao Paulo; Madison; Emiliano Velazquez; Eduardo; Lucas Pires; Vinicius Zanocelo, Sandry; Lucas Braga, Rwan Seco, Ricardo Goulart; Mark Leonard. DT: Fabian Bustos.
Banfield: Enrique Bologna; Emanuel Coronel, Gregorio Tanco, Alejandro Maciel, Franco Quinteros; Maximiliano Cuadra, Nicolás Domingo, Giuliano Galoppo, Agustín Urzi; Juan Cruz and Jesus Dátolo. DT: Claudio Vivas.
Goals in the first half: 37m Marcos Leonardo from penalty (S), 45m Domingo (B).
Substitutions in the second half: 14m Palacios for Cuadra (B) and Cabrera for Urzi (B); 17m Gissi by Cruz (B); 19m July by Goulart (S) and Barbosa by Madson (S); 27m G.Pirani for Sandry (S) and B.Angulo for Seco (S); 34m B.Oliveira by Pires (S); 42m Romero by Galoppo (B).
Incidents in the second half: 7m expelled Dátolo; 15m expelled Tanco (B).
Stadium: Urbano Caldeira (Brazil).
Referee: Augusto Alfredo Menéndez (Peru).
Source: Ambito
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