LA PLATA. Gimnasia La Plata defeats Godoy Cruz with a 2-0 win with a penalty scored by B. Aleman (61′) and a goal from N. Contin (90′).

The match was played at the Estadio Juan Carmelo Zerillo stadium in La Plata on Friday and it started at 7:00 pm local time. The referee was Leandro Rey Hilfer who had the assistance of Andrés Barbieri and Juan Pablo Millenaar. The 4th official was Juan Pafundi. The weather was clear. The temperature was cold at 11.2 degrees Celsius or 52.21 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 59%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Godoy Cruz had a strong ball possession 55% while Gimnasia La Plata was struggling with a 45% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Gimnasia La Plata was more pushing with 42 dangerous attacks and 15 shots of which 3 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Gimnasia La Plata won the match​.

Gimnasia La Plata shot 15 times, 3 on target, 12 off target. On the opposite side, Godoy Cruz shot 12 times, 3 on target, 9 off target.

Cards

Gimnasia La Plata didn’t receive any yellow card. On the opposite side, Godoy Cruz received 3 yellow cards (P. Barrios, G. Ferrari and F. Negri).

Standings

Next matches

In the next match in the Superliga, Gimnasia La Plata will play away with Central Cordoba SdE on the 17th of September with a 1-0 head to head record in favor of Gimnasia La Plata (1 draw).

Godoy Cruz will play away agasint Central Cordoba SdE on the 10th of September with a 2-1 head to head in favor of Godoy Cruz (2 draws).

Gimnasia La Plata – Formation

Gimnasia La Plata adopted the conservative line-up (4-4-2).

The manager Néstor Raúl Gorosito decided to play with the following team: Rodrigo Rey (7.8), Guillermo Enrique (7.6), Leonardo Morales (8.7), Germán Guiffrey (7.1), Nicolás Colazo (7.6), Lautaro Chávez (6.1), Agustín Cardozo (6.9), Brahian Alemán (8.2), Ramón Sosa (7.1), Franco Soldano (7.0) and Erik Ramírez (7.2).

The home team had on the bench: Tomás Durso, Matías Bazzo, Gonzalo Gonzalez, Nery Leyes, Emanuel Cecchini (7.0), Carlos Insaurralde, Matías Miranda, Tomás Muro, Alexis Steimbach, Benjamín Domínguez (6.2), Alexis Domínguez and Nicolás Contín (7.6).

Gimnasia La Plata could not rely on the presence of B. Dominguez (injured) and N. Contin (injured).

Substitutions

Gimnasia La Plata made 3 changes: L. Chavez for B. Dominguez (55′), F. Soldano for E. Cecchini (78′) and E. Ramirez for N. Contin (87′).

Best player: Leonardo Morales​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Gimnasia La Plata was Leonardo Morales even if he didn’t score any goal.

His rating is (8.7) with 30 passes (63% accurate) and 0 key passes. He was won 13 duels out of 14.

Godoy Cruz – Formation

Also Godoy Cruz adopted the conservative line-up (4-4-2).

Favio Orsi played with: Diego Rodríguez (6.3), Pier Barrios (6.5), Gianluca Ferrari (6.2), José Canale (6.7), Franco Negri (6.7), Martín Ojeda (7.0), Gonzalo Abrego (6.6), Juan Andrada (6.8), Tadeo Allende (6.0), Salomón Rodríguez (6.6) and Ezequiel Bullaude (6.2).

These were the players on the bench: Juan Espinola, Guillermo Ortíz, Elías Pereyra, Juan Pintado (7.0), Gabriel Vega (6.3), Nelson Acevedo, Enzo Larrosa (6.7), Valentín Burgoa, Tomás Castro Ponce, Tomás Badaloni, Matías Ramírez (6.4) and Cristian Chávez (6.9).

Substitutions

Godoy Cruz made 5 changes: P. Barrios for J. Pintado (46′), T. Allende for M. Ramirez (70′), G. Abrego for E. Larrosa (70′), S. Rodriguez for C. Chavez (82′) and E. Bullaude for G. Vega (87′).

Best player: Martín Ojeda​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Godoy Cruz was Martín Ojeda.

His rating is (7.0) with 35 passes (74% accurate) and 3 key passes. He was won 4 duels out of 13. He performed 13 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Superliga.​

• Gimnasia La Plata – Godoy Cruz – 2-0