Argentinos Juniors tied this Monday without goals with Sarmiento at the close of the twelfth day of the Professional League Cup and maintained the fourth and last qualifying place in zone A for the quarterfinals with two dates remaining for the end of the first phase. Racing Club leads this group with 28 points, followed by River Plate and Newell’s Old Boys with 23. Argentinos Juniors reached 21 points and occupies the last qualifying place for the quarterfinals because they have a better goal difference (+4 against +1 ) than the fifth, Sarmiento, his rival tonight, who missed the opportunity to get into the top four. El Bicho dominated, had more possession and more clear scoring moves, but failed to convert.
Defense and Justice, sixth with 19 points, still dreams of qualifying.
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This Tuesday they also played Tiger and Aldosivi, who are in the qualifying zone for the quarterfinals, against Arsenal and Huracán. Tiger equalized goalless against one of the weakest teams in the tournament and could not hold on to second place. Estudiantes de La Plata leads with 25 points, followed by Boca Juniors with 21 and Tigre with 20 (+8 goal difference). Fourth, also with 20 units but +3 goal difference, was Aldosivi led by Martín Palermo, who tonight fell 0-2 to Huracán due to a double by Uruguayan Matías Cóccaro. Huracán reached 15 units, one less than Colón (+2) and Barracas Central (-7), who occupy the fifth and sixth places.
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On Friday, Colón and Estudiantes tied 2-2, while on Saturday Boca Juniors beat Barracas Central by 12. On Sunday Racing Club and Newell’s drew goalless and River Plate and Atlético Tucumán tied 1-1.
