River Plate and Racing Club added valuable victories this Saturday against Defense and Justice and Sarmiento de Junínrespectively in the continuity of the eighth day of the Cup of the Professional League of Argentine Soccer, which also recorded a tie for Boca Juniors at home against Arsenal de Sarandí.
River Plate recovered after the defeat in the superclásico at home against Boca with a 1-2 away win against Defense and Justice with goals from the youth team Enzo Fernández and Santiago Simón, while Walter Bou discounted for the locals.
With this victory, River remained as an escort for Racing Club in Zone Aafter the ‘Academy’ thrashed Sarmiento de Junín 4-1 at home to remain undefeated and leader in the local tournament.
Enzo Copetti, in duplicate, Tomás Chancalay -from a penalty- and Javier Correa scored for those led by Fernando Gago, while Julián Brea opened the account for those from Junín who had Lisandro López as captainwhich returned to the Cilindro de Avellaneda but this time with the colors of Sarmiento’s team.
Last shift this Sunday, Boca Juniors equalized 2-2 with Arsenal de Sarandí after being in the lead twice with the conquests of Luis Vázquez and Marcos Rojo -from a penalty- but the visit managed to draw with the goals of Sebastián Lomónaco and the Paraguayan Cristian Colmán.
In other games this Saturday, for Zone B Vélez won 3-1 against a beaten and bottom Lanús and Estudiantes de La Plata equaled 3-3 as a visitor against Godoy Cruz to become leader along with Boca Juniors in this group.
On Thursday, on the opening day of VAR in Argentine football, Aldosivi prevailed at home by 1-3 against Colón in Santa Fewhile on Friday Gimnasia beat Talleres de Córdoba 2-1, Patronato repeated the same result against Unión and Argentinos won 0-2 against Banfield.
On Sunday, at the close of the day, San Lorenzo will receive Atlético Tucumánan urgent Newell’s Old Boys will face Platense and Rosario Central will premiere Leandro Somoza as coach visiting Tigre.