The Professional League Cup promises that date 14 will be a heart attack. The thing is, on the next day it will be decided who will be the four qualified for the playoffs and anything can happen in Zone A, which is on fire.
River will never have thought that it would be so difficult for them to be in the top four that qualifies for the quarterfinals on the last date. El Millo needed to beat Central but ran into a Canalla who remembered that he was the last champion of Argentine soccer. Russo's men took the three points until Borja appeared to tie the game against a Monumental team that was losing patience.
While the fans did the math, these lines were written, erased and rewritten.
The Independent was celebrating, yes. Carlitos Tevez's El Rojo did his homework to the letter. "As long as we have mathematical chances, we are going to continue fighting," the coach had said. And the team picked up the message: they beat Banfield 1-0 and celebrated Talleres' setback, but River's comeback - for now - left them out of the playoffs.
In any case, Rojo goes with Talleres in the last one: if they beat them, they enter the playoffs unless Vélez (they have four goals less difference than those of Avellaneda) achieve a more than important victory against Independiente Rivadavia.
What to say about Barracas: Guapo beat Instituto and is practically in the quarterfinals. A tragedy would leave him out. The same as the Argentine leader (they would have to lose 8-0) who, with a difference of +11, looks at them all from above and feels like they are in the quarterfinals.
The fact: the leaders face each other on the last date and a tie puts them in the next round.
This is the positions of Zone A of the League Cup