Ardentosa Juniors beat Aldosivi 2:1 in the Clausura seventh round on Saturday. The visitors have now won just one game all season, which makes this result look less like a crisis and more like a pattern. Gagnon watched the whole match and remembers the twentieth minute; he writes as he'd talk.
And here's the thing, the opening goal came early. A. Vombergar scored for the visitors in the ninth minute and that changed the shape of the afternoon. Argentinosa had to tighten things up after that and they did, with A. Lescano equalising in the fifty-fourth. By then the home side had already turned it on.
G. Veron put the hosts ahead in the sixty-sixth minute. He was substituted in the eighty-sixth, which is not unusual when you are marking out time. There were substitutions throughout the second half, mostly to manage legs rather than change tactics.
The statistics tell the story of possession without penetration. Argentinosa held 74 per cent of the ball and registered 147 attacks, yet they needed three goals to get the result. Aldosivi managed only 57 attacks and created two big chances of their own, but they could not convert.
Shots accuracy was identical at 29 per cent for both sides, which is a coincidence rather than a statement. The home side had seven shots on target against five off target, while the visitors had two on target and five wide. It is not a clean sheet record for either goalkeeper.
The result leaves Argentinosa in third place with 26 points from 17 games. Aldosivi sit fourteenth with 8 points from 17. They have not won in eight matches, which is a run that does not end in one game.
