San Lorenzo was forced to win against the last of the competition to keep everything as it was at the start of matchday 16.
The match began, however, with Pedro Juan Caballero’s cast surprising with high pressure, which complicated the locals in the first leg of the match.
But El Rayadito knew how to find a way around it in the second half: in the 56th minute, Juan ‘Toto’ Villamayor once again made himself felt with his goalscoring contribution as in several moments of the tournament, scoring the 1-0 that would end up being the definitive result in Gunther Vogel Stadium.
At 78′, Gallo Norteño was left with 10 players due to the expulsion of Alexis Vargas.
With this victory, San Lorenzo reached 34 points and regained the first place in the Intermediate with two points above Trinidense.
Sportivo 2 de Mayo, meanwhile, has now gone six games without a win and is still stuck in the last step of the tournament, with only 8 points.
The entrance San Lorenzo clings to the top of the Intermediate was first published in diary TODAY.
