All Boys rally past Racing Cordoba with second-half surge

CIUDAD DE CÓRDOBA (Interstat) — All Boys erased a one-goal deficit with two goals in four second-half minutes and beat home side Racing Cordoba 2-1 on Sunday at Estadio Miguel Sancho in Ciudad de Córdoba, Provincia de Córdoba. Racing Cordoba took a second-half lead after a scoreless first half, but the visitors responded and turned the match around. All Boys was the visiting team, while Racing Cordoba played as the home side before the crowd at Estadio Miguel Sancho. The result gave All Boys its first win in the competition this season.

The first half ended scoreless. All Boys’ Turraca was cautioned in the 27th minute, and All Boys also made a ninth-minute substitution involving Ramirez. Racing Cordoba’s Pablo Chavarria broke the deadlock in the 52nd minute after Sergio Gonzalez supplied the assist. The goal came shortly after All Boys’ Zafarana was booked in the 50th minute. Racing Cordoba held the lead until the middle of the second half, when All Boys began its comeback.

All Boys answered in the 68th minute when Alejo German Tabares scored. Luciano Leguizamon, who played 32 minutes, put All Boys ahead in the 72nd minute and also recorded an assist in the match. Chavarria played the full match for Racing Cordoba and scored, while Sergio Gonzalez finished with an assist in 73 minutes. Leguizamon finished with one goal and one assist in 32 minutes, and Tabares’ goal helped erase Racing Cordoba’s advantage. The two-goal burst in the second half gave All Boys the lead for good and left Racing Cordoba chasing an equalizer. All Boys’ comeback came after Racing Cordoba had gone ahead through Chavarria’s second-half goal.

The cards and changes continued. Avila was booked for Racing Cordoba in the 83rd minute, All Boys received a yellow card in the 87th and Monticelli was cautioned for Racing Cordoba in the 88th. The match summary did not identify the All Boys player cautioned in the 87th. Racing Cordoba made three changes in the 83rd minute involving Olinick, Bay and Pena. All Boys made changes in the 76th minute involving Apa and Calone, and Racing Cordoba’s 73rd-minute changes involved Taborda and Gonzalez. All Boys’ earlier substitutions were Ramirez in the ninth minute and Turraca and Barrientos in the 58th. Racing Cordoba’s 73rd-minute changes came after Sergio Gonzalez had helped set up the opening goal. The match’s disciplinary sequence included five yellow cards and ten substitutions. The match summary listed the bookings in order.

All Boys is now 1-1-3 in the competition and 1-1-3 across all competitions. Racing Cordoba is 1-2-2 in the competition and 1-2-2 across all competitions. All Boys’ competition record and its all-competitions record are identical, and Racing Cordoba’s competition and all-competitions marks also match. All Boys’ first win in the competition followed a 1-1 draw at Los Andes, a scoreless draw with Godoy Cruz, a 2-1 loss at Deportivo Moron and a scoreless draw with Colon Santa Fe. Racing Cordoba had lost 1-0 at Ferro, beaten Los Andes 1-0, drawn 1-1 at Central Norte and drawn 2-2 with Godoy Cruz. The result marked a reversal for All Boys after a run of draws and a loss, while Racing Cordoba remained without a win in its most recent league outing. Both sides entered with recent draws and losses, but All Boys left with the win.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected All Boys 1, Racing Cordoba 0, while its ELO system gave Racing Cordoba a 54 percent probability to win. All Boys had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -0.5. The total score of 3 went under the over/under line of 1.5.