Partidos beat Estudiantes 1-0 in the Primera Nacional regular season, round 28, on Saturday 6 September 2026. The hosts took all three points despite playing most of the second half with ten men. And here's the thing, it wasn't supposed to go this way for either side.
D. Rostagno saw red in the twelfth minute, leaving Partidos down to ten men before the game had really started. They held on until the forty-fourth, when G. Pacheco gave the home side the lead. By then the visitors must have thought they were safe enough to push forward.
Pacheco scored and then, in the fifty-fifth minute, received his own red card. The match turned into a strange affair after that, with both sides making changes. Partidos brought on R. Garay, J. Cerrudo, M. Acosta and E. Acosta in the sixty-second, while Estudiantes responded with a flurry of their own from the seventy-second.
We had backed the home side to win beforehand, though only at 39 per cent confidence. To be fair, the numbers backed it up. Partidos registered more attacks, more corners and, crucially, six shots on target against Estudiantes' two.
The visitors wasted territory with eleven shots off target, while the hosts kept their efforts tighter. Both sides received one red card, but only Partidos managed a yellow, picked up by R. Garay in the sixty-first minute.
The result keeps Estudiantes in eighth place on thirty-six points from twenty-seven games. Partidos remain thirteenth, twenty-nine points from the same number of fixtures. The gap between them stays at seven, and neither side moves any closer to the other.