Banfield qualified today to the semifinals of the Argentine Cup by beating Godoy Cruz de Mendoza, at the Juan Gilberto Funes stadium in San Luis, 3-1 in the penalty shootout after drawing 1-1 in regulation time. As for the match, the Buenos Aires cast started more involved. In fact, four minutes into the first half, goalkeeper Diego Rodriguez accidentally knocked down striker Mauricio Cuero in the box and the match referee decided to take a penalty. The person in charge of executing the shot was Jesús Dátolo, who defined with precision and put the 1 to 0 partial. A few minutes after this action, Godoy Cruz’s right-back, Néstor Breitenbruch, received a blow inside the area from Aaron Quirós and Jorge Baliño collected another shot from 12 steps.
However, the “Tomba” did not reach the equalizer, since the goalkeeper Facundo Cambeses covered the shot of Martín Ojeda and on the rebound he showed off against the Uruguayan Enzo Larrosa.Godoy Cruz continued to go and had a prize in the 41st minute when Elías Pereyra executed a center and put it on the point of the penalty so that Larrosa rose and headed to mark the tie. In the second half, the Mendoza cast showed that they had no intention of going to penalties, but Cambeses drowned out the cry to Badaloni and then to Breitenbruch.Then the game became very stuck and slowly everything led to penalties, where Cambeses had an outstanding performance, as he saved the shots to Nelson Acevedo, Tadeo Allende and Gabrie Vega and gave the classification to Banfield, which for the first time is among the four best of the Argentine Cup.For a place in the final, the “Drill” will face the winner of the match between Talleres de Córdoba and Indpendiente, who will face tomorrow afternoon in Chaco.
