When the game was heading towards a deadpan 0-0 scoreline, 44 minutes into the second half, Leguizamón went to Torren on the right, took a cross from behind that goalkeeper Lanzillota could not cut and debutant Andrés Vombergar, who had entered three minutes earlier, with a free goal scored the 1-0 that decreed the third victory of San Lorenzo in the championship and, in parallel, an unexpected defeat of Argentinos Juniors at home.
His coach Rubén Insúa thought of a game in the week and San Lorenzo played it as is: He waited well behind the line of the ball and when he was able to recover in the middle of the court, he attacked directly from the right through Cerutti. The idea was not to extend into long possessions and this was demonstrated by the final statistics of the match: he only had the ball for 36% of the game.
In any case, and in the middle of an afternoon in which there were few arrivals, San Lorenzo had the clearest situations and in the clearest of all, already in the second half, Villalba headed over the line, a shot that the Paraguayan Bareiro had placed above Lanzillota’s exit. He found the triumph when the tie closed him on all sides and now it was four points away from the Copa Sudamericana. Not so bad, all in all. If the idea is not to lose, the Cyclone has already gone five dates without doing so.
If San Lorenzo worked to ensure the zero in his goal and only later went out to see what was happening, Argentinos did not know what to do with the ball and it was diluted in an unproductive possession. In the first half, he never reached the rival goal and back for the second, coach Gabriel Milito made three changes at once: Verón, Leonel González and Luciano Gómez left, Herrera, Zalazar and Galarza entered, then the Paraguayan Avalos reappeared and the Colombian Roa entered, but there was no case. Two deflected shots by Herrera and Zalazar were the only situations for a team that wants to fight for the championship, but never had clear ideas. And that he seemed to miss Fausto Vera too much, his central midfielder recently sold to Corinthians in Brazil.
“I hardly even got off the plane and they already threw me on the field. I’m happy about the goal. I come to add and the boys played a great game. Hopefully this result will give us an emotional boost. I found a good working group and we hope the time will come to add now” declared Vombergar who four minutes on the pitch and a goal were enough to become the figure of a low-flying game. San Lorenzo took advantage of one of the few opportunities it could generate. And he had in victory the reward of having tried to the last to break the inertia of the game. On Monday, he tied with Talleres 44 minutes into the second half. At the same moment, now they beat Argentinos.
