San Lorenzo beat this Tuesday Athletic Tucuman by 1-3 in the third day of the second phase of the Diego Maradona Cup, was five points behind the leader Banfield and you can still dream of qualifying for the tournament final.
The Buenos Aires team played almost the entire second half with ten for the expulsion of Victor Salazar at 48 minutes.
Paraguayan striker Ángel Romero scored a 0-1 penalty for San Lorenzo, Leonardo Heredia tied the game and Nicolás Fernández and Juan Ramírez scored near the end of the match to give the Barça team victory.
With this result, Banfield, who beat Colón de Santa Fe 1-2 on Monday, leads Group B of the Championship Zone with nine points, followed by Talleres with five, Gimnasia and San Lorenzo with four and Colón and Atlético Tucumán with one unit each.
Talleres and Gimnasia, which were aiming to get closer to the Drill, tied 2-2 on Monday.
CHAMPIONSHIP ZONE A
Boca Juniors and River Plate will arrive as the only leaders of Group A of the Championship Zone at the superclassic next Saturday because on this day they beat Huracán (3-0) and Arsenal (2-1), respectively, and Argentinos Juniors fell to Independiente ( 0-2).
The Xeneize and the Millionaire have seven points and are followed by Argentinos Juniors with four, Independiente and Huracán with three and Arsenal with one.
COMPLEMENTATION ZONE A
Rosario Central beat Aldosivi 0-1 on Tuesday thanks to a goal by Alan Marinelli and leads Group A of the Complementation Zone with seven points along with Defensa y Justicia, which on Sunday beat Patronato 2-1.
Unión and Lanús, who met this Tuesday (the Santa Fe won 2-0) have four units.
Unión's goals were the work of Gastón González and Fernando Márquez.
Aldosivi, with three points, and Patronato, without units, complete the group.
COMPLEMENTATION ZONE B
Newell's Old Boys assumed this Monday the lead alone in Group B by beating Central Córdoba 3-1.
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.
Estudiantes reached four points, the same score as Racing Club.
Central Córdoba and Godoy Cruz have one unit each.
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.