This Saturday, the first finalist of the Primera Nacional Reucido will be determined when Estudiantes de Río Cuarto hosts their namesake team from Buenos Aires. The match, to be held at the Ciudad de Río Cuarto Antonio Candini stadium, is scheduled for 20:00 and will be broadcast on TyC Sports. The appointed referee was Ariel Penel. Estudiantes de Río Cuarto will not have it easy, as they will try to overturn the 1-0 deficit from the first leg, where the Buenos Aires team won thanks to a goal from forward Mateo Acosta in the 7th minute of the second half. A one-goal win will be enough for the Córdoba-based team, as in case of a tie on aggregate, they will advance due to their sporting advantage from finishing higher in the annual table. Both teams shared Zone B in the regular season of the Primera Nacional, where Estudiantes de Río Cuarto finished second with 60 points, while the Buenos Aires team was third, just one point behind. The other finalist of the Reucido will be decided on Sunday, when Deportivo Madryn, a team that has been surprisingly benefited in recent weeks by various sanctions against its rivals, hosts Deportivo Morón. The first leg ended 1-0 in favor of Deportivo Morón, who won thanks to the goal from defender Franco Vázquez in the 4th minute of the second half. However, “Gallito” will not be able to count on their head coach, Wálter Otta, as he was suspended for stating that “playing against Deportivo Madryn is playing against the horses of referees Tapia and Toviggino”. This sanction once again affects a Deportivo Madryn rival, who in the quarter-finals benefited when they were awarded a 3-0 win over Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy, a rival they were losing 1-0 to at the end of the first half. A few weeks ago, after the presentation of the Federal Regional Amateur Tournament, the president of Deportivo Madryn, Ricardo Sastre, had told the Argentine News Agency that with Tapia and Toviggino everything was made “easier” for him.
