The meeting that closed the second segment of this 23rd. a date that will continue tomorrow and will only be completed next Thursday was played on a deteriorated playing field at the José Amalfitani stadium, which was enabled by a path parallel to the one corresponding to the Professional League, which caused a severe repudiation of this organization through a strong statement.
Not only the field of play, but its surroundings, still with elements that covered the light in some sectors and that remained from the recital offered by Daddy Yankee last weekend, should have forced a change of scenery for this game.
Coach Alexander Medina opted for the many good values that Vélez has in its lower divisions, such as the right winger Gianluca Prestianni, the youngest to debut in the first division in the club’s history at just 16 years old, who was the manager of the the only goal of the night converted from a header by the also entered Lucas Janson at 33 minutes of complement.
After the tight 1-0 loss at the Boca Juniors court, Liniers’s men literally played “for honor”, since they were very far from any possibility of reaching the South American Cup, 17 points behind the last one entering, Defense and Justice.
After the elimination in the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores at the hands of Flamengo, the Velezanos were left empty-handed for next year.
For its part Banfield, which is far from accessing that same South American by Annual Table, instead bets a full on the possibility of reaching nothing less than the Libertadores 2023, something feasible if it defeats another team led by “Cacique” Medina like Talleres, from Córdoba, in the semifinals of Copa Argentina.
If it beats the Cordobans and in the other semifinal Boca Juniors, already qualified for having won the League Cup, beats Patronato, from Paraná, the “Drill” will be automatically classified for next year’s Libertadores regardless of the result of the final of the Argentine Cup.
Under these premises, the match was then played in Liniers, which, as it could not be otherwise, turned out to be very poor in its development and was unbalanced in favor of the local (which also ended up tight) precisely because of the just expulsion with a direct red card that the referee Darío Herrera applied to Ríos for a violent infraction when the second period had just begun.
On the next day, the 24th, Vélez will visit none other than San Lorenzo on Saturday, while Banfield will host Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata on Sunday.
Source: Ambito
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