Marco Perez scored with an overhead kick to give
relegation-threatened Gimnasia La Plata a 1-0 home win over Boca
Juniors in the Argentine Clausura tournament on Sunday.
San Lorenzo had a 3-0 win over local rivals Huracan, while
the match between Rosario Central and Newell's Old Boys finished
1-1. Racing Club came from behind to beat Velez Sarsfield 3-1 in
the day's final match.
Estudiantes La Plata and Independiente lead the standings
with 30 points from 15 matches, though Argentinos Juniors can go to
the top if they win at Arsenal de Sarandi on Monday.
Boca, enduring one of the worst seasons in its history, is
still without an away win in the Clausura tournament after Perez
volleyed the winning goal for Gimnasia in the 59th minute.
Another turbulent week for Boca started with a 4-0 victory
over Arsenal on Monday in Roberto Pompei's first match as manager
since replacing the sacked Abel Alves.
But further evidence of the rift between star players Juan
Roman Riquelme and Martin Palermo surfaced later in the week,
souring the preparations for the match with Gimnasia.
Palermo played, but Riquelme missed the match with a knee
injury and Boca's attack looked limp without the playmaker's
promptings.
The win for Gimnasia helped move the club away from the
automatic drop zone in the table of average points used to decide
relegation.
Elsewhere, Alejandro Gomez opened the scoring for San Lorenzo
against Huracan with a right-footed shot in the 22nd minute.
Fabian Bordagaray rounded the keeper to score the second in
the 70th minute and Cristian Leiva finished the scoring with a lob
in the 73rd.
In the match between Central and Newell's, both teams ended
the match with nine players.
Diego Braghieri gave Central the lead from close range
following a corner in the third minute, but Nahuel Valentini fouled
Cristian Nunez in the box and Rolando Schiavi equalized for
Newell's from the 17th-minute penalty.
Central's Mario Paglialunga and Valentini were sent off, as
were Lucas Bernardi and Nunez of Newell's, but neither side could
use the extra space to find a winning goal.
In the day's final match, Fernando Tobio gave Velez the lead
in the 41st minute, but Ricardo Alvarez was shown a red card in the
69th minute and Racing took full advantage of the extra player with
three goals in five minutes.
Pablo Luguercio equalized in the 76th, Claudio Yacob put
Racing ahead two minutes later and Claudio Bieler completed the
victory with a third in the 81st.
In results Saturday it was: Chacarita Juniors 1, Atletico
Tucuman 2; Tigre 1, Estudiantes 2; Banfield 1, Independiente 3;
River Plate 2, Godoy Cruz 1.
On Monday, it's Arsenal vs. Argentinos Juniors and Colon vs.
Lanus.
