Defensa y Justicia suffered, but won and scored: the goal, an almost fatal minute and more

In Florencio Varela, on matchday 14 of the Professional League Cup, Halcón beat Lepra 1-0 thanks to Ramos Mingo’s goal and reached the quarterfinals, where they will face Argentinos Juniors.

In a key match, Defensa y Justicia beat Newell’s 1-0 in their stadium, thanks to Santiago Ramos Mingo’s header goal that gave them the narrow victory and qualification to the quarterfinals that they will play against Argentinos Juniors next weekend. Newell’s made the Falcon suffer, but it didn’t even depend on itself to qualify.

El Halcón depended on themselves to get into the quarterfinals, they needed to beat Lepra, but the Rosarino team was also excited about getting into the quarterfinals and stood up to them in Varela.

The field was heavy due to the intense rains that fell in the AMBA in recent days and that complicated the display of the game that characterizes Julio Vaccari’s team. The most important chances were due to some inaccuracies in the background and mid-distance shots. Likewise, the goal came only in the complement and from a dead ball. But in a minute that could have changed everything: because at 6:30 p.m. Newell’s had a very clear chance that hit the post and could have sentenced the elimination of Defensa. The play that ended in a corner came from the release of that ball that Fiermarin kept. The header came from that corner kick.

In the last 20 the game was practically broken, without half of the field and where both looked for the rival goal. There were no more emotions and the match and the classification went to Varela’s team, who will now face Argentinos Juniors in the quarterfinals.