BelgranoR 6 - 1 los (375339134)

Dark skies made the crowd of 5320 at Belgrano Sky a little nervous, but the rain held off. Yona Saadon was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Sebastian Fill and Domenik Megner. All of Ciudad de Buenos Aires was shut down for the day, as fans of both clubs came to the derby. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for BelgranoR. They fielded: Ramúa - Scheiblauer, Vitulli, Vidal - Sacristán, Gnoni, Botero, Siadak, Pietravallo - Mena, Camisani.

los tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Grigor - Dorkić, Stickroth, Ghignone - Pryga, Bova, Infante, Bertotti, Ghelfi - Stens, Jorba.

BelgranoR tried to focus their attacks down the middle. The referee signaled a penalty for the home side after 14 minutes, amid vocal protests from the visitors. BelgranoR fans erupted in celebration as N. Vidal rifled the ball into the the top corner. 1 - 0! The visitors kept the pressure on to tie the game when, after 15 minutes, J. Stens broke through the centre and found himself alone with the keeper. E. Ramúa made a great block, though. It might be a while before the fans see BelgranoR's I. Siadak again, after he had to leave the field in great distress at the 18 minute mark. He was replaced by S. Giménez Zapiola. The BelgranoR captaincy was handed to B. Vitulli. BelgranoR made it 2 - 0 as B. Vitulli got a touch to the floated corner kick and flicked the ball to U. Gnoni who whipped a low drive in off the far post. After this, you could see that the players of BelgranoR were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. los had a fair chance to reply after 30 minutes due to some fine moves down the left, but in the end R. Infante was slow to keep up with the play and was unable to make it into the penalty box to apply a finish. The referee showed los's G. Bertotti the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. C. Scheiblauer of BelgranoR had to be helped off the pitch as an injury meant he was unable to finish the game. A. Graziuso came in to finish the match. H. Sacristán's lightning pace was too much for G. Bertotti who could only look on as the BelgranoR player blasted one home. 3 - 0. Halftime score was 3 - 0. los claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 51 percent.

After 60 minutes H. Sacristán made a speedy advance and dropped the ball to S. Mena who shuffled it past the keeper. The score was now 4 - 0. los reduced the lead after 68 minutes to 4 - 1 as J. Stens easily chipped the ball past the home side's keeper after a dazzling play from the right. N. Vidal struck a 30 metre free kick home 70 minutes into the match. 5 - 1 for the home team. BelgranoR put themselves up 6 - 1 when S. Giménez Zapiola broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. BelgranoR's I. Botero had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 81 minutes having been played. M. Santillana was the replacement. los enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 55 percent of possession.

BelgranoR's top performer was clearly S. Mena. A. Graziuso was a disappointment, however. R. Infante performed admirably for los. M. Pryga turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 6 - 1.