05/14/2021 6:01 AM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 05/14/2021 7:29 AM
It reaches an example to mark the dynamics in which the
Argentine soccer
tournaments are held
: it is not yet officially confirmed how the next championship will be played.
But the other side of this constant uncertainty erupts on dates such as the last of the Professional League Cup in which more than half of the teams fought to access the final phase of an unprecedented and possibly unrepeatable format.
There will be Superclassic, there will be direct clashes, with the strange advantage of a hometown without an audience for the team that finished better located in the table.
And there may be a penalty shootout, an extra spice that came back for the group format.
By shots from the penalty spot Boca beat Banfield in the final of the previous contest.
That night in San Juan, in which Edwin Cardona opened the account with a great goal and tied with an agonizing scream Luciano Lollo, headed, the goalkeepers could not touch the ball in the definition.
It was a right hand from Corcho Rodríguez to the crossbar and the efficiency of the xeneizes players (the last one was put by Buffarini) that gave Boca the title.
Boca's goalkeeper, Agustín Rossi, a penalty specialist, saves Andrés Roa from Independiente's shot.
Photo: AFP
Looking ahead, while many rehearse celebrations in the concentrations and presage with the pillow the goal of the next day, there are eight archers who think beyond 90 minutes and that just like what Javier Mascherano said to Sergio Romero in the emotional harangue of the 2014 World Cup semifinals, they
can become heroes
.
Who is the best in that field?
Beyond improvisation on the fly or the decision that can be changed by a gesture of fatigue at the last minute or a certain movement of the player's loot, the archers arrive with a record in their gloves.
To revalidate or to refute, implicit rule of football.
In the Superclásico, Franco Armani (34) and Agustín Rossi (25) will face each other.
To River, they kicked 9 penalties since he is at the club: they converted 8 and he was able to save one.
Al de Boca, who jumps to ownership in the absence of Esteban Andrada (this week he was discharged and was able to return from Ecuador after suffering from coronavirus) he was kicked 5 penalties at the club and saved two.
The big difference is that Armani knows what it is to face definitions from kicks from the penalty spot, while for Rossi it would be the first of his career.
During his time at Atlético Nacional de Medellín, the Argentine National Team goalkeeper participated in 10 penalties and of the 50 shots that were executed, he saved 10. In River, he excelled in the classification against Cruzeiro to advance to the quarterfinals of the Libertadores 2019, stopping two penalties and being the hero of the definition.
THE FIRST PENALTY KICK OF ARMANI # LibertadoresxFOX |
I relived the cover of the goalkeeper of the Millionaire in the victory on penalties against Cruzeiro.
pic.twitter.com/wnz48ZIijx
- ESPN Argentina (@ESPNArgentina) July 31, 2019
Taking his entire career, from Deportivo Merlo, Armani was kicked 139 penalties and saved 23 (16.54%).
Meanwhile, Rossi, among Chacarita, Students, Defense and Justice, Lanús, Antofagasta and Boca, has a high percentage of saves: they kicked 17 and contained 6 (35.29%).
On Sunday there will be an interesting first course before the Superclásico. At 12 o'clock, in Liniers, Vélez, the first team to get a ticket to the quarterfinals, collided with Racing, who entered with just enough, but if he did it was largely due to the performance of his goalkeeper
Gabriel Arias (33)
.
The Neuquén could not save any of the four penalties that were kicked during regular time with the Academy diver, but he was decisive in the penalties definitions: on four occasions, he was kicked 19 shots and saved 5. The most remembered was in Maracana against Flamengo, for the round of 16 of the Libertadores 2020, where he was left with the right hand of William Arao. This year, for the Argentine Cup, he also showed off to save two shots against San Martín de San Juan. In total, in his career (Olimpo, Defensa, La Calera, Racing and the Chilean team), he was kicked 60 penalties and saved 13 (21.66%).
Lucas Hoyos
(32), in Vélez, managed to contain three of the 13 that kicked him, but only one of the 13 that he faced in three definitions on penalties.
His record in the field is very similar to that of Arias: throughout his career (Gimnasia de Jujuy, Instituto, Newell's, Rafaela and Vélez) they kicked him 65 shots and saved 12 (18.46%).
The quarterfinals will open on Saturday at the Estudiantes stadium, between the local and Independiente.
There will be two archers with extensive experience: Mariano Andújar (37) and Sebastián Sosa (34).
The Lugano-born was a goalkeeper in six definitions by shots from the penalty spot, five with the diver Pincha and one in Napoli, with a balance of 3 saved shots of the 27 he received (11.1% effectiveness).
In regular time the percentage rises to 19.7% since it contained 13 out of 66. The total, between Huracán, Palermo, Catania, Napoli and their cycles in Estudiantes indicates that out of 100 penalties he caught 13 (13%).
The Independiente from Montevideo was the protagonist of seven penalties, three of them in his time at Boca: in total he was kicked 39 shots and saved six.
Although his numbers are better in the last time: under the three suits of Red, he was left with three shots of the 6 that kicked him.
In his entire career, he saved 20 of 96 shots from 12 steps (20.8%).
On Saturday night, Colón and Talleres will collide in Santa Fe, another crossing of experienced archers from the River Plate.
Marcos Díaz, figure in the Workshops classification against Rafaela for the Argentine Cup.
Photo: Juan José García
A
Leonardo Burián
(34) touched be 7 definitions for criminal of the Sabalero and 38 criminal executed will interrupted 9 (23.68%), a balance that decays in its performance during regular time in which defending the arc Colon : saved 2 of the 13 penalties (15.38%) suffered by the team.
Their covers were fundamental in the 2019 South American Cup, in which the Santa Fe team reached the final through penalties to Argentinos Juniors and Atlético Mineiro.
Marcos Díaz
(35) knows what it is to shine in the tiebreakers from the twelve steps.
This is how his actions to win the Argentine Cup with Huracán sign it.
And he ratified it with Talleres, against Vélez, to advance to the round of 16 of the 2021 edition. What's more, the "Gorilla" has the record of penalties saved in that tournament: 13, 8 in the Globe and 5 in the T. Adding to a definition that he had in his passage through Boca, the balance gives him an impressive 27.65% effectiveness (13 saves of 47).
It is worth highlighting how Marcos Díaz's effectiveness grows in the decisive instance since his performance drops in the penalties he received in regular playing time: he was able to save 5 of 31 (16.13%).
Beyond the goalkeepers, when it comes to defense, there are three teams of the eight classified that are the ones that suffered the fewest goals in the tournament.
And two face each other.
It is not difficult to guess that it is Julio Falcioni's Independiente and Ricardo Zielinski's Estudiantes, who together with Eduardo Domínguez's Colón, received 10 goals in 13 games.
In attack, only Sabalero maintains the efficiency ranges since he scored 23 goals, only surpassed by River (with 25, the highest scorer) and equaled by Vélez.
Racing was the tightest in these statistics and went through the window to the final phase thanks to its victory by two goals against San Lorenzo that allowed it to finish with a balance of +2, the product of 14 goals for 12 against.
Zone 1, in which the Academy was classified fourth with 21 points, left the Cyclone with no chances, with the same amount, and Banfield, with 20 units, a figure that was enough in Zone 2 for Independiente to pass third and Workshops, bedroom.
Statistics: Oscar Barnade