Racing is not doing well when it leaves Avellaneda. On his court he won three games, scored nine goals and did not concede any. As a visitor he lost two and tied one, with two goals for and six against.
Sarmiento, for his part, is doing better in Junín than abroad. As a visitor they lost two and tied one, and as a local they won two and tied one.
Racing experienced its first draw in the championship as a defeat, because it was clearly superior, it had three times as many goal arrivals as its rival, and made goalkeeper Sebastián Meza the figure of the match.
The match had little net playing time and exasperating delays due to doubts about the VAR, the multiple changes (the five per team allowed by the obsolete regulation were made), and the injury of Sarmiento’s goalkeeper when he hit a stick in the goal. by Enzo Copetti.
The goal of those from Junín was a penalty. Jonathan Torres did it after a handball from Emiliano Insúa, in a cross from the true architect of that goal, Lisandro López. The former crack of the Academy had put a poisoned center from the bottom of the field, in a play that seemed finished for everyone except him. All Racing discussed Echavarría’s decision, with the same energy with which he had claimed a violation against Copetti at the end of the first stage.
The performance of the referee and his virtual assistants left a lot of room for controversy. What cannot be discussed much is that Gago’s team was the one that did the most to keep the three points. He scored a goal (Hauche’s cross, Copetti’s header) and was able to score others, with a couple of good shots from mid-range in the opening period and several deep lunges in the second.
The clearest of all was a shot by Hauche after a great pass by Edwin Cardona, who sent the ball out very close to one of the posts.
Sarmiento celebrated the tie that a priori suited the wish-possibility relationship, accumulating people from the middle to the back in almost the entire development of the game, speculating with some long ball, which would find the visiting defense badly stopped. In one of the few deep attacks he found the goal.
Racing was pleased little by little, because this time Vecchio was not as precise as last week, Carbonero contributed little or nothing, Chancalay did everything wrong and Miranda was weak. The detail in favor comes from the statistics: they always won at home and next Sunday they will host Independiente.