Gimnasia y Tiro took all three points at Almagro's ground in the twenty-first round of Primera Nacional on Wednesday evening. The visitors finished 2:0 ahead thanks to two goals from J. Gordillo. It was a result that kept the visitors in fifth place while Almagro remained twelfth.
Gordillo opened the scoring in the thirty-fourth minute. He added a second in the seventy-second, and by then the game was already decided. Almagro tried to respond but the visitors had played with more control, and one mistake ends it when you are chasing the game.
The discipline of the match told a story in itself. Almagro picked up a single yellow card through F. Sivetti in the fifteenth minute. Gimnasia y Tiro collected four — M. Guanini, L. Montoya, T. Macies and J. Galetto all went to the referee.
On paper the statistics looked even. Both sides held fifty percent possession and each registered three shots on target. Almagro had more attacks at 164 to 130, but the visitors had the deeper squad and knew how to use it. Shots accuracy was 0.6 for the hosts against 0.43 for the visitors, yet the goals went the other way.
The result leaves Gimnasia y Tiro ten points clear of Almagro in the table. The visitors have twelve wins from twenty-eight games and are weighing up a move into the top five. Almagro, with nine victories, have work to do if they want to climb out of the middle of the pack.