Godoy Cruz beat Colón de Santa Fe 1-0 at home and climbed to fourth place in the Professional League to become one of the revelations of the tournament. Tadeo Allende scored the goal for the men from Mendoza, who now have 10 points. In addition, the duo made up of Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez managed to shield the Malvinas Argentinas stadium, since their team has been undefeated for eight games at home and has three straight wins in that condition. Colón, who faced the game with several substitutes for his commitment on Wednesday for the Copa Libertadores, has not beaten “Tomba” in Mendoza since 2015.
With this butler, Julio Falcioni chose a youth team, where only four players were over 30 years old, while the rest averaged 20: he planted a line of five, three midfielders, freedom for “Flea” Rodríguez and a single forward with the youth Deboli. While Orsi and Gómez put up a traditional line of four, two recovery midfielders, three to create and open the field, while striker Salomón Rodríguez was looking for a gap between the central defenders. With these diagrams, Falcioni decided to wait a few meters behind and await the errors of a Godoy Cruz who is looking for regularity to face the threat of relegation. The first half passed without either of the two teams being able to hit their rival hard.
In the second half Godoy Cruz came first: he deepened with Bullaude and Ojeda, who launched a low center parallel to the goal line and that no teammate could touch. And at 11m Salomón Rodríguez made an overflow as left wing and put a cross to the far post so that Tadeo Allende pushed it to the goal.
Then the men from Mendoza took a couple of steps back and decided to wait for those led by Falcioni to change their attitude and assume a more offensive posture. But the Colón coach decided to take out “Pulga” Rodríguez, Sánchez Miño and Delgado to take care of them for the second leg of the Copa Libertadores round of 16 against Talleres.
