Two hundred and ninety-seven days and 633 games after Ariel Benel’s starting whistle at the Colonel Estanislao Lopez Stadium in Santa Fe, the 41st edition of the National Premier League will conclude next Sunday. Puerto Madryn With a huge prize at stake: a second promotion to the Professional Football League. At the Abel Sastre Stadium, almost on the shores of Golfo Nuevo, Students from Rio Cuarto will visit Deportivo Madryn Revenge for the reduced final, with the advantage given by a 2-0 win at home eight days earlier. The duel will begin at 5 p.m. It will be broadcast by TyC Sports.
A win, a draw and even a one-goal defeat will give the Cordoba team a ticket to the first division.. The Chubutans need to win by three or more points to make the leap. If they win by two goals, promotion will be decided, without interruption, by penalty kicks. The referee of the match is Facundo TelloWhich will have the support of the video assistance system, as in the first leg and final of the first promotion, and unlike the rest of the matches in this tournament (the person responsible for the technological tool is Nicolas Lamolina).
A very strong performance and two timely goals scored by Tomas Gonzalez and Juan Antonini in the second half, giving the team victory in the first leg. Lion of the Empirewhich this season finished second in Zone B in the long section of the competition and then eliminated Patronato de Paraná, Gimnasia y Tiro de Salta and Estudiantes de Buenos Aires in the low zone.
The two-point difference is not decisive, but the numbers cause the residents of Rio Cuarto to be excited. The group he leads Ivan Delfino They have suffered seven defeats this season, but have only lost once by more than one goal: Chaco Forever beat them 2-0 in Resistencia in a Matchday 32 match. Their defense was one of the strongest in the tournament: they conceded just 24 goals in 40 matches.
Hoping to bury once and for all the two finals they lost in 2021 (to Sarmiento de Junín and Platense) and thus see their team in the elite of Argentine football after four decades of waiting (they last participated in the national championship in 1985), a hundred of the team’s supporters Blue sky He bid farewell to the team on Thursday afternoon at the club headquarters before starting the just over 1,200km bus journey to Trelew. There the delegation met before traveling the final 65 kilometers to Puerto Madryn.
Here Deportivo Madryn is waiting impatiently. He aims to heal the wound caused by the penalty shootout defeat to Gimnasia de Mendoza 50 days ago. In the final for the title and first promotion, in a match that was seconds away from victory. After that painful setback, the demoted team entered the quarterfinals, leaving Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy and Deportivo Morón on the way.
Just as Estudiantes fans find reasons to be optimistic in the statistics, so do the club’s fans. Orengro: His team was the highest scorer in the long period of the tournament (scoring 45 in 34 matches) and turned its stadium into a fortress. After losing 2-1 to Racing de Córdoba on the second date of the tournament, February 15, they never fell again at the Estadio Abel Sastre, recording 15 wins and three draws. Their last 10 home matches have ended in victories.
For this match, Leandro Gracian will bring back striker Germán RiveroWho missed the first leg due to suspension for his participation in the brawl that occurred after the return match with Deportivo Moron. The recovery of midfielder Bruno Perez, who suffers from pubic pain, will wait until the last minute. Both are key to the task of overcoming the two-goal deficit, having contributed 16 goals this season: Rivero scoring nine and Perez seven.
Expectations are high in Puerto Madryn for the most important match in the city’s history, which could give Deportivo Madryn its first promotion to the top flight and return representation in that category to Chubut football after half a century (the last participant was Huracán de Comodoro Rivadavia in the national championship in 1976). With very affordable tickets (ranging from 6,000 to 20,000 pesos), I was able to drive Orengro The Abel Sustre Stadium, which has a capacity of 23,000 spectators, is expected to be packed this afternoon.