Atlético Tucumán continues to lead, while River and Boca are defeated

08/01/2022 at 05:10

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Racing Club stayed in a 3-3 draw at home against Tigre

River Plate and Boca Juniors are in the 12th and 13th position

Atlético Tucumán ratified its status as leader of the Argentine Professional Football League Tournamentin a day that recorded new defeats for River Plate and Boca Juniors, against Sarmiento de Junín (1-2) and Patronato de Paraná (3-0).

The team from Tucuman won 2-0 against Newell’s Old Boys on Saturdaywith goals from Ramiro Carrera and Renzo Tesuri, to reach 25 points in a classification where he was four units ahead of his immediate pursuer: Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata.

The team led by Lucas Pusineri remains the only unbeaten team in the competition and, after starting the tournament with the aspirations of maintaining the category after this start is excited to dispute the first title in its history.

Gimnasia, which on Saturday beat Huracán 0-1 at home with a goal from Santiago Hezze, against its fence, is second with 21 units.

Third place went to Argentinos Juniors, who stayed at 20 integersafter losing 0-1 against San Lorenzo also on Saturday after the agonizing goal converted by Andrés Vombegar.

Racing Club, which this Sunday suffered a 3-3 tie at home against Tigre about the epilogue settled in fourth position with 19 units, while the ‘Ciclón’ directed by Rubén Insúa climbed to tenth position.

The eleventh day of the Argentine championship had again defeats of River Plate and Boca Juniors, who occupy the 12th and 13th positionboth with 15 points and increasingly further away from the leading positions in a semester that has them both without international competition.

Boca Juniors suffered a severe blow during their visit to Paraná losing 3-0 to Patronato with goals from Axel Rodríguez, Alexander Sosa and Jonás Acevedo.

In this way, the ‘Xeneize’ directed by Hugo Ibarra added his sixth defeat in eleven presentations, in a central defense with an afternoon to forget composed by the Peruvian Carlos Zambrano and Facundo Roncagliawho entered for Marcos Rojo who suffered a muscle injury in pre-competitive movements.

Marcelo Gallardo’s River Plate, meanwhile, accumulated its fourth loss in the tournament by losing at the Monumental stadium against Sarmiento de Junín by 1-2 with goals from Guido Mainero and the Uruguayan Federico Andueza for the “Green”, while Emanuel Mammana marked the discount for the ‘Millionaire’.

The Colombian Miguel Borja was the starter, while Juan Fernando Quintero entered in the second half for a River that did not find answers to avoid a new fall.

In other results of this eleventh day, on Friday Godoy Cruz and Velez Sarsfield tied 1-1On Saturday, Estudiantes and Banfield drew goalless, the same result that Platense and Barracas Central recorded on Sunday, while Aldosivi deepened Lanús’ crisis by defeating them 0-1.

This Monday the date will be completed with three meetings: Rosario Central-Central Córdoba, Defense and Justice-Arsenal and Colón-Independiente, while Talleres-Unión was postponed due to an accident with the micro that transferred to the delegation of the santafesino set.

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