Buenos Aires, September 30 (NA) — Arsenal completed a good performance against a mule Defensa y Justicia and beat them 1-0 in an acceptable match played in Sarandí, which allows them to dream of avoiding relegation until the end of the season , within the framework of the seventh Interzonal matchday of the 2023 Professional League Cup.
Forward Juan Bautista Cejas gave the local team the victory with a penalty 52 minutes into the first half.
With this result, Arsenal is excited with a minimum of hope of fighting for permanence until the end, although its chances are slim: it is in last position in the average and annual tables.
Without a showy game, but with the conviction of achieving a victory that would give them oxygen before their audience, the Sarandí team took the initiative and was active in generating dangerous situations, although they did not accompany them with the necessary lucidity to open the marker.
For its part, Defensa y Justicia presented an alternative team, since it has its mind set on the return match for the Copa Sudamericana semifinals against Liga de Quito: it will have to reverse the 0-3 that it suffered at the height of Quito.
Florencia Varela’s team did not clash, but they did suffer from the lack of some of their key pieces and although they had a regular first half, a naive penalty – taken at the request of the VAR – decreed that they went to half-time down on the scoreboard by the both from Cejas, who shot goalkeeper Enrique Bologna in the penalty shootout.
In the complement, the first minutes were once again exclusive to the local team, which showed an ambitious and sharp side to expand the score, but once again, the inefficiency in the last meters played a trick on them.
The wasted actions and changes by Julio Vaccari in the “Falcón” gave another imprint to the match, which turned back and forth. Although there were no changes to the score, they provided an attractive day of football on the morning of Sarandí.
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The following is the summary of the meeting:
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Professional League Cup 2023.
Date 7 – Interzonal.
Arsenal (1) – (0) Defense and Justice.
Stadium: Julio Humberto Grondona.
Referee: Franco Acita.
VAR: Salomé Di Iorio.
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Arsenal: Alejandro Medina; Christian Chimino, Néstor Breitenbruch, Joaquin Pombo, Adrián Sporle; Lucas Brochero, Gonzalo Muscia, Braian Rivero, Emiliano Viveros; Leandro Moreira and Juan Bautista Cejas. DT: Darío Espínola.
Defense and Justice: Enrique Bologna; Tomás Escalante, Julián Malatini, Santiago Ramos, Alexis Soto; Lautaro López, Benjamín Schamine; Jonathan Berón, Rodrigo Bogarín, Santiago Solari; Facundo Echevarría. DT: Julio Vaccari.
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Goal in the first half: 52m Juan Bautista Cejas (A) from a penalty.
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Change in the first half: 31m Dylan Gissi for Malatini (DyJ).
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Changes in the second half: 8m Lucas Pratto for López (DyJ), Nicolás Tripicchio for Echevarría (DyJ), Gastón Togni for Berón (DyJ); 16m Juan Peinipil for Moreira (A), Lautaro Guzmán for Viveros (A); 29m Lautaro Fedele by Schamine (DyJ).
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