Boca Juniors rehabilitated themselves in front of their fans and achieved a clear 2-0 victory against Belgrano
Racing Club does not raise its head and fell 3-0 against Platense
River Plate fell 2-1 against Talleres, in Córdobaand allowed his escort San Lorenzo to reduce the advantage over the ‘Millionaire’ to five units, after playing the sixteenth day of the Argentine Professional Soccer League Tournament.
After last Sunday’s epic victory against Boca Juniors in a new edition of the superclassic, Martín Demichelis’s River Plate added their third defeat in the tournament when they fell before a toned Talleres that with this success was located in the third place of the classification to seven points of his vanquished.
Rodrigo Garro scored twice for the Cordovan cast and Matías Suárez discounted for the ‘millionaire’ group.
San Lorenzo, meanwhile, achieved an agonizing 1-2 away win this Saturday against Banfield, where Julio César Falcioni made his debut, in his fifth stage at the helm of ‘Taladro’.
Jalil Elías and Nahuel Barrios, in the 94th minute, converted for the ‘Ciclón’, while Juan Bisanz had put the transitory tie for the local, in a result that allowed San Lorenzo to reach 31 units.
In another result of this day, Boca Juniors rehabilitated themselves in front of their fans and achieved a clear 2-0 victory against Belgrano de Córdoba with goals from Martín Payero and Darío Benedetto.
Although the ‘Xeneize’ is far from River Plate, precisely 16 units away, this triumph was revitalizing after the tough defeat last Sunday at the ‘Monumental’ against River in a new edition of the Argentine soccer superclassic.
Besides, Independiente took more air and added the third victory in the Zielinski era by beating Tigre 2-1 this Saturday with a goal from Martín Cauteruccio in minute 95 to define a result that was tied with goals from Nicolás Vallejo and Mateo Retegui, from a penalty.
The contraction of ‘Red’ is Racing Club that does not raise its head and suffered a new blow to the Fernando Gago era with the 3-0 defeat against Platense as a visitor with goals from Gonzalo Valdivia, the Paraguayan Ronaldo Martinez and Nicolás Servetto, from a penalty.
This Sunday Defense and Justice drew 1-1 with Estudiantes -conquests by Nicolás Fernández and Benjamín Rolheiser- in a result that did not allow either of them to take advantage of the fall of the leader River Plate.
Besides, Argentinos Juniors prevailed on Friday 1-2 against Atlético Tucumán and Huracán, in Sebastián Battaglia’s debut as coach, tied at zero with Godoy Cruz.
This Monday the day will be completed with four meetings with the outstanding crossing of a conflicted Vélez Sarsfield against a toned Rosario Central.
– Results of the 16th. working day:
. Friday 05/12: Huracán 0-0 Godoy Cruz and Atlético Tucumán 1-2 Argentinos Juniors.
. Saturday 05/13: Independiente 2-1 Tigre, Banfield 1-2 San Lorenzo, Instituto 1-0 Colón and Newell’s Old Boys 2-0 Arsenal.
. Sunday 05/14: Defensa y Justicia 1-1 Estudiantes, Platense 3-0 Racing Club, Boca Juniors 2-0 Belgrano and Talleres 2-1 River Plate.
. Monday 05/15: Barracas Central-Central Córdoba, Unión-Sarmiento, Gimnasia-Lanús and Vélez Sarsfield-Rosario Central.
