The teams that advanced to the quarter-finals of the Torneo Clausura were determined on Wednesday night, following Tigre's 1-0 victory over Lanús. In this way, seven of the eight best teams competed in Zone A. This statistic further exposes Rosario Central, the team that was named League Champion by the Argentine Football Association (AFA) in a title that was seemingly invented overnight. This is because, in the second semester, while points were being counted for the annual table, Rosario Central only played against two of the teams that qualified for the quarter-finals. One of them was Boca, against whom they drew 0-0 in an interzonal match, while the other match was a 3-0 away victory for 'El Canalla' over Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. To make matters worse, after the annual table points were tallied, Rosario Central faced Estudiantes de La Plata in the round of 16 of the Torneo Clausura, where they lost 1-0 at home. However, the 'League Champion's' negative statistics do not end there, as in the first half of the year they lost 1-0 to Boca, and in the quarter-finals of the Torneo Apertura, they beat Estudiantes de La Plata 2-0 before losing in the quarter-finals to Huracán 1-0. Furthermore, Rosario Central was in a group with seven of the last nine teams in the annual table, including Godoy Cruz and San Martín de San Juan, who were relegated at the end of the season. The quarter-finals of the Torneo Clausura, to be held from Saturday, November 30, to the following Monday, will be covered live by the Noticias Argentinas agency.
