It was 0 to 0 and perhaps it could not be otherwise. Godoy Cruz and San Lorenzo tied in a match that passed by without leaving emotions or good play. The Mendocinos wasted a good opportunity to get close to qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana and they couldn’t fatten up a still disturbing average either. San Lorenzo added its 13th tie in the championship and played as if it felt out of everything.
With very little it was enough for Godoy Cruz to be much better in the first half. At least he had three very clear arrivals: a crossed left-footed shot from Ojeda from outside the area that went near the left post, a closed corner from Ojeda himself that hit the crossbar (on the rebound, Zapata almost hit his own fence) and a Badaloni’s half turn that goalkeeper Batalla sent to the corner. More than enough to affirm that, in the middle of a game of little football flight and in which from time to time, the ball was lent, the men from Mendoza should have gone to rest in advantage.
The San Lorenzo thing was discouraging. He played as if the goal in front didn’t exist and except for a bitten shot from Cerutti that went wide, it did not produce anything in attack. Rubén Insúa’s team stopped in the middle of the field again to deny the internal game to its rival. But he didn’t know what to do when he got the ball back. He lost her too soon and ended up limited to a mere containment task.
In the second half, Insúa tried to boost himself up front with the entrances of Leguizamón and Vombergar for Barrios and Cerutti. But he could never shake off the warmth. Except for a right cross from Braida that went over the crossbar, his offensive power was nil. He never rushed to go for the three points. Godoy Cruz did not do much more. The only emotional thing happened after 20 minutes when Hernández and Badaloni struggled in the area, the Mendoza striker fell and the referee Trucco charged a penalty that he had to review when he verified in the VAR that Badaloni had simulated the foul.