San Lorenzo beat Banfield in the South with a pirouette of the Little Dog Barrios, in the last of the game

The last ball of the night is played on the green cloth of Florencio Sola. None are willing to risk. At that point, Julio César Falcioni and Rubén Darío Insua played all their chips in the middle of the court. But there is still a bet to make when no one imagined that he could jump the bank. And the long side of Gonzalo Luján arrives, the head of Andrés Vombergar and a full of Nahuel Barrios. Just when San Lorenzo was doing the math and felt that River was escaping, the smallest of the court gave him a big prize. After three consecutive draws, he added three points and warns that he will fight until the end. Like tonight in front of Banfield.

The party was going straight to an unbridled equality. There were two goals, it is true, but very little dynamic, except for a lapse in the first half, when Banfield was at a disadvantage, and a good time of the complement. A goal that comes from a side kick leaves the defense exposed. Also, the liveliness of the attackers. Especially, the Little Dog. He took too much San Lorenzo.

There was a special energy in Peña and Arenales. Fundamentally, by the return of the Emperor. Flags with dedications, songs and happiness. And he left a better image Banfield, especially in the first stage. When the bonds of conservatism were loosened, it was much sharper than St. Lawrence.

Falcioni's return to Banfield did not end in the best way. Photo: Fernando de la Orden.

It was aboard a 4-4-2 that had Brahian Alemán as a guide inside and Ignacio Rodríguez on the left, freeing the lane for Emanuel Insúa, very incisive in that sector. And when the team needed it most, it flowed to generate the tying goal play. He did it with a center that came behind a wall with Ignacio Rodríguez, who held back and unloaded for the Uruguayan. For the second stick, Juan Bisanz put a popcorn between Malcom Braida and Federico Gattoni and shot Augusto Batalla.

San Lorenzo showed the same recipe that led him to be very competitive in this championship. Tactically, Insua stopped a 3-4-3 in which Jalil Elías appeared as a winger-midfielder on the right and Agustín Martegani joined the midfield to give him a greater volume of play. The best was on the left, where Braida and Barrios put together a good tandem. That way came the goal that ended a drought of 281 minutes.

Martegani enabled Braida, the Cordovan put the center past, the ball was deflected in the Venezuelan Luis Mago and on the other sector Elias emerged to gambet inside and define left-footed before Facundo Cambeses.

From that moment on, Banfield detached himself from that cautious posture he had exhibited at the beginning: the two lines well compact and willing to give up the initiative to hurt with some long ball front for the two center forwards or crossed for the outside midfielders. San Lorenzo suffered, especially, behind Braida's back because Bisanz always demanded. On the other hand, it is said, Insúa grew. And the Battle area began to fill with questions.

With little, San Lorenzo looked for it against Banfield and just had its prize in the last play of the game. Photo: Fernando de la Orden.

He had it against a Banfield goal to San Lorenzo and generated three clear plays, one after the other, before that goal that came by decantation. A Chilean from Alemán barely deflected, a free kick from the Uruguayan himself that grazed the barrier and was lost in the corner and a left-footed bomb from Bisanz that covered Batalla.

San Lorenzo ran a lot, but played very little. And Adam Bareiro was caught up in his inefficiency. Ezequiel Cerutti left him hand in hand with Facundo Cambeses, but the Paraguayan got tangled with the ball and they anticipated him when he was about to solve left-handed. He could not even take advantage of the stopped ball that the Insúa team uses so well. Banfield had another before the outcome of the first stage, a center of Bisanz that went down Sebastián Sosa Sánchez and Milton Giménez defined just outside.

There was a controversial move. Insúa was expelled for an iron on Cerutti. Fernando Echenique admonished and VAR backed him.

In the second half, San Lorenzo reacted. Always with Barrios as the great engine. Cerutti could not with Cambeses at the start. And then came the show of changes. Insua took out Carlos Sánchez, returned Elías to his natural position and Luján entered to play on the side. Also, Vombergar to try to collaborate with a soulless Bareiro.

Falcioni renewed the attack with Andrés Chávez and the midfield with Matías Romero, but seemed to lower the blind with the entry of a midfielder (Eric Remedi) for a striker (Sosa Sánchez).

The goal cry of the Little Dog Barrios, hero of San Lorenzo in his visit to Banfield. Photo: Fernando de la Orden.

There was a foul by Vombergar on Remedi that merited a second yellow. Echenique put his hand in his pocket, but regretted it.

Everything was ordinary, cut, with centers that made the Barça center backs look and few emotions. Until the goal of Barrios that overshadowed the remake of Falcioni and left San Lorenzo alive in the big fight.

The summary of the match

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