Atenas beat River Plate 3:2 in the second phase of the Second Division on Saturday, 6 September 2026. The match ended in the 17th round with both sides sitting level on four points after six games. The home side took all three points in a contest that swung between them.
F. Milan opened the scoring in the eighth minute, giving Atenas an early lead. River Plate responded through C. Techera, who converted a penalty in the eighteenth minute to level things. By then the game had settled into a rhythm that neither side could quite control.
The second half brought more drama. M. Nunez restored Atenas' advantage in the fifty-fifth minute, only for N. Campos to equalise for River Plate in the sixty-fifth. Vitinho then struck in the eighty-eighth minute to seal the result, and here's the thing — it was a finish that came when most would have expected a draw.
Atenas completed 129 attacks compared to River Plate's 146, but their efficiency told a different story. The hosts registered four shots on target against five for the visitors, and one more goal to show for it. Possession sat at 54 percent for Atenas, though the numbers don't capture who really pressed forward.
Both sides remain in the lower half of the table after this round. Atenas sit twelfth and River Plate thirteenth, each with four points from six matches. The result extends Atenas' unbeaten run to two games after a 2:2 draw with Peñarol earlier this week.
River Plate's recent form has been mixed, including a 2:3 loss to Nacional on Wednesday. To be fair, they had bounced back with a 2:0 win over Progreso on 26 August before that setback. The gap between them and safety remains tight, and every point carries weight now.