League Cup: Platense to the final, 80 years and 20 penalties later | Goalkeeper Macagno saved four shots vs. Godoy Cruz

For the second time in its 118 years of history (the previous one was the Adrián Escobar Cup in 1943, won by Huracán by corners in favor), Platense will play in the final of a Primera championship. In a heart-stopping series of shots from the penalty spot in which they were in front four times and could not define, the team of Saavedra and Vicente López He defeated Godoy Cruz 6 to 5 in San Nicolás after having tied 1-1 in the ninety minutes and will go next week for the League Cup title.

After a tight and fought match and the Paraguayan’s goals Ronaldo Martinez and the Uruguayan Salomon Rodriguez In the first half, the definition covered all the nuances of anguish. In the first round of five shots per team, Leonel Picco and Luciano Ferreyra had the chance to resolve the series in favor of Platense. If they converted from eleven meters, Calamar would go to the final. But they failed. And the series was 3 to 3: Pellegrino, Suso and Franco Díaz scored for Platense and Diego Rodríguez, Conechny and López Muñoz for Godoy Cruz. Ramiro Macagno He saved his shot from the Uruguayan Larrosa, Diego Rodriguez He did the same with Picco and Allende and Ferreyra were diverted.

The one-on-one tension became unbearable. Macagno he saved his shot from the Uruguayan Roberto Fernandez y Jerónimo Cacciabue once again had the definition to Platense’s new regret: Russian Rodríguez saved his shot.

They converted the right sides Maple – it stung her, nothing more and nothing less – and Morgantini, and Macagno stopped Chilean Galdames’ third shot. If he scored Ciro RiosPlatense passed, but his shot went over the crossbar. The central defenders put it in Barrios and Vázquez and Rasmussen’s shot hit the left post after another intervention by Macagno, long reviewed by the VAR for an alleged overtake that was ultimately not collected. Once again Platense was match point and, on shot number 20 of the series, Raúl Lozano did not miss and the squid triumph was declared to reach the final of a championship in Primera after eighty years.