Banfield beat this Monday Colon of Santa Fe 1-2 with two goals in the second half and leads Group B in the Championship Zone with an ideal score when the third day of the season was played partially. Diego Maradona Cup.
El Taladro has nine points and is followed by Talleres with five, Gimnasia with four, and Colón, San Lorenzo and Atlético Tucumán with one unit.
However, these last two have not played yet and will meet on Tuesday at the close of the day.
Banfield started down on the scoreboard with a goal by Luis 'el Pulga' Rodríguez, but reversed the result thanks to goals from Giuliano Galoppo (60 minutes) and Mauricio Asenjo (87 minutes).
Talleres and Gimnasia, which tried to get closer to the Drill, tied 2-2 in a match that ended around midnight because it was interrupted for several minutes by a failure in the lighting system.
The goals of the Cordobans were made by Juan Méndez and Joel So Señora. Leonardo Morales and Bruno Palazzo scored for La Plata.
CHAMPIONSHIP ZONE A
Boca Juniors and River Plate will arrive as the only leaders of Zone A of the Championship Zone because this Monday Argentinos Juniors, who could reach them, lost 0-2 to Independiente.
The Xeneize and the Millionaire have seven points, Argentinos four, Independiente and Huracán three and Arsenal one.
El Rojo returned to victory tonight for the first time after being eliminated on December 17 by Lanús in the quarterfinals of the Copa Sudamericana.
The goals were made by Jonathan Menéndez and Alan Velasco.
Alan Franco and Uruguayan Carlos Benavídez, from Independiente, and Nicolás Silva, from Argentinos Juniors, had to be replaced due to injury.
COMPLEMENTATION ZONE A
Defense and Justice beat Patronato on Sunday and leads with seven points.
Rosario Central and Lanús, who have four units, will play against Aldosivi (three points) and Unión (one), respectively, this Tuesday.
Board is last without units.
COMPLEMENTATION ZONE B
Newell's Old Boys assumed this Monday alone in the lead in Group B by beating Central Córdoba 3-1 with goals from Sebastián Palacios, Juan Sforza and Cristian Vega, on their own goal.
The Rosario players thus reached nine points, three more than Vélez Sarsfield, who lost 2-3 against Estudiantes de La Plata this Monday, who managed to cut a 15-game winless streak.
Lucas Rodríguez, the Uruguayan Diego García and Lautaro Gianetti, on their own doorstep, scored the goals for the La Plata team and Miguel Brizuela and Cristian Tarragona discounted for the locals.
Estudiantes reached four points, the same score as Racing Club. Central Córdoba and Godoy Cruz have one unit each.
SUNDAY'S RESULTS
On Sunday, Boca Juniors beat Huracán 3-0, River Plate beat Arsenal 2-1, Defensa y Justicia beat Patronato 2-1 and Racing Club beat Godoy Cruz 6-1.
TOURNAMENT MODALITY
After a match against each rival, the winners of Championship Phases A and B will face each other in a final to define the champion of the Diego Maradona Cup (the Argentine League), who will qualify for the 2021 Copa Libertadores.
The winners of each Complementation Phase will play against each other and the winner will face the team that lost the final of the Championship Phase.
The one that prevails in that duel will qualify for the South American Cup in 2022.