With a goal scored in the throes of the game, Godoy Cruz won 2-1 as a visitor to Platense and became the first to qualify for the final phase of the Professional League Cupplayed on the twelfth and penultimate date of the initial phase.
Hernán López Muñoz (3) put the advantage Godoy Cruz the meeting had barely started, but the Squid recovered and reached equality before half an hour when Matthew Pellegrino (28) took a rebound and sent the ball to the net.
In a rough duel with several strong fouls, the referee Sebastian Zunino threw out Ignacio Vazquez (32) in Platenseand then to the substitute goalkeeper Roberto Ramirez (38), from Godoy Cruzfor arguing with his expelled rival.
When the match seemed to end with equality, the entered Mariano Santiago He received only inside the area and gave the Mendoza team the victory at 90+1 minutes.
Godoy Cruz waits to meet his rival
With this victory, Godoy Cruz leads Zone B of the Professional League Cup with 26 points, ahead of Lanus (23), Newell’s (twenty-one), Defense and Justice (20) and Mouth (19), who still has his duel pending against Students (18), suspended before half an hour of play due to the seizure suffered by the Chilean player Javier Altamiranoof Students.
Two dates before the end of the regular stage, Godoy Cruz He is the first to qualify for the quarterfinals and only needs to define his position in Zone B.
Synthesis of Platense 1 – Godoy Cruz 2
Platense: Juan Pablo Cozzani; Juan Ignacio Saborido, Ignacio Vázquez, Gastón Suso, Sasha Marcich; Leonel Picco; Lucas Ocampo, Braian Rivero, Carlos Villalba, Ronaldo Martínez; Mateo Pellegrino. DT: Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez.
Godoy Cruz: Franco Petroli; Lucas Arce, Pier Barrios, Federico Rasmussen, Thomas Galdames; Bruno Leyes, Roberto Fernández; Facundo Altamira, Hernán López Muñoz, Tomás Conechny; Tomas Badaloni. DT: Daniel Oldrá.
Goals: PT 3m López Muñoz (GC); 28m Pellegrino (P); ST 47m Santiago (GC).
Changes: ST Iván Gómez for R.Martínez (P) and Facundo Russo for Rivero (P); 12m Salomón Rodríguez for Badaloni (GC), Vicente Poggi for R.Fernández (GC) and Daniel Barrea for Conechny (GC); 27m Agustín Obando for Ocampo (P); 35m Maximiliano Urruti by Pellegrino (P); 36m Juan Bautista Cejas for Altamira (GC) and Mariano Santiago for Leyes (GC); 45m Fernando Juárez for Villalba (P).
Incidents: PT 32m sent off I.Vázquez (P), 38m sent off R.Ramírez (GC) while on the substitute bench.
Stadium: City of Vicente López.
Referee: Sebastian Zunino.
VAR: Hernán Mastrángelo.
Source: Ambito
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