Rosales scores twice as Biblioteca Atenas beats Sarmiento 4‑2
ATENAS, Argentina (Interstat) — Matias Rosales scored twice, Alejo Mainero and Paulo Oballes added one goal apiece, and Biblioteca Atenas defeated Sarmiento de La Banda 4-2 on Sunday in a competition football match. Biblioteca Atenas, the home side, scored four goals in the match, while Sarmiento de La Banda scored twice.
Mainero gave Biblioteca Atenas the lead in the first minute. The home side held that advantage until Oballes scored in the 64th minute. Rosales then scored in the 69th minute and again in the 85th minute, extending Biblioteca Atenas’s lead. Sarmiento de La Banda scored twice in the match, and Adrian Toloza got one of those goals in the 90th-plus-6th minute. The scoring sequence listed Mainero in the 1st minute, Oballes in the 64th, Rosales in the 69th, Rosales in the 85th and Toloza in the 90th-plus-6th. The final score was 4-2.
Rosales was Biblioteca Atenas’s top star, finishing with two goals in 90 minutes. Toloza scored once in 90 minutes for Sarmiento de La Banda. Mainero and Oballes each scored once in 90 minutes for Biblioteca Atenas. Rosales had also played 90 minutes in the previous meeting at Sarmiento de La Banda. The key performances, in descending order of importance, were Rosales with two goals, Toloza with one, Mainero with one and Oballes with one.
Sarmiento de La Banda’s Sanchez was sent off in the 70th minute with a red card. Yellow cards were issued to Biblioteca Atenas in the 16th minute and to Sarmiento de La Banda in the 37th and 90th-plus-2nd minutes. The red card left Sarmiento de La Banda with 10 players for the final 20 minutes of regulation and stoppage time, and the visitors still scored a late goal through Toloza.
The result moved Sarmiento de La Banda to one win, one loss and two draws in this competition, and its record across all competitions is also one win, one loss and two draws. Biblioteca Atenas is now two wins, three losses and one draw in this competition, and its record across all competitions is also two wins, three losses and one draw. Sarmiento de La Banda had won the most recent head-to-head meeting 3-0, but Biblioteca Atenas reversed that result at home on Sunday. The win gave Biblioteca Atenas its second victory in the competition and its second victory across all competitions.
Biblioteca Atenas entered the match after a 3-0 loss at Sarmiento de La Banda in the previous meeting, a 3-1 home win over Fundacion Amigos, a 2-0 loss at Fundacion Amigos, a 1-1 draw at San Martin Formosa and a 1-0 home loss to San Martin Formosa. Sarmiento de La Banda entered with the 3-0 home win over Biblioteca Atenas, a 0-0 draw with Sportivo Belgrano and a 1-1 draw at Sportivo Belgrano. The match produced six goals, three yellow cards and one red card.
Interstat’s game simulator had projected a 1-1 final. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Sarmiento de La Banda with a 59.8 percent probability to win. Biblioteca Atenas had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -0.5. The total of 6 went under the over/under line of 1.5.