Rosario Central and Platense equalized 1-1 in a match that consumed almost all their interest in the first half, and in the second it faded into insignificance. Vicente López’s team had started winning with a goal by defender Ramiro González at 14 minutes after an error by Central’s back, and after a long VAR review of a free kick goal that Véliz had scored and that was annulled after seven minutes of endless deliberations, Buonanotte equalized in the added seventh minute.
The expulsion of the steering wheel Carlos Villalba at 20 minutes of the final stage forced Platense a task of endurance, that served him to take a point from Arroyito that nourishes his average but still does not allow him to breathe easy in matters of descent.
Increasingly beaten, with no evidence of a motivational improvement or in individual and collective performance, Central missed the opportunity to return to victory in front of their fans. Lhe campaign with Carlos Tevez as technical director has been irregular and there are not even chances to qualify for the 2023 Copa Sudamericanathe great objective of the institution.
Tevez plans the team for 2023, but its continuity seems tied to the results that Central obtains until the end of the championship, and to what happens in the ratified elections for Sunday, December 18.
Per se, the game went as it had to go, locked, fought. Platense played better in the first half of the initial stage and became his first clear arrival due to a double defensive mistake by Central: at 13 minutes Zárate received a downward rejection from the left with a header from defender Juan Gabriel Rodríguez, he sent a center passed, the ball bounced off Báez and fell to Ramiro González, who slapped her with three fingers, right, and put it down, next to the right post.
The goal seemed to wake up Central that after the annulment of Véliz’s goal (the VAR in charge of Leandro Rey Hilfer understood that when executing a free throw, the Uruguayan Jhonatan Candia had hit the ball with both feet) tied with a play on the board: in a corner from the left Francis Mac Allister played backwards and Ortiz, who sent a cross past Báez He headed down towards the solitary entrance of Facundo Buonanotte, who defined with his left foot, over the goalkeeper, and scored the goal that cost Rosario so much.