Juventud San Cristóbal0 - 3Sociedad Parque Chacabuco

Sociedad Parque Chacabuco arrived at Juventud San Cristóbal’s pitch with a clear plan and the ability to carry it out without mercy. The away side knew how to read the match from the outset, making the most of the back four and four midfielders San Cristóbal had set out on the field. The home side’s balanced formation, with full-backs Elián Valenzuela on the left and Octavio Cardozo on the right, found no answers to contain the dynamism Sociedad Parque Chacabuco brought from the first half. Lucio Ulloa in the away defence, a thirty-three-year-old veteran scarred by a thousand battles, organised the back line with composure while his team-mates moved the ball in search of space in midfield.

The match was decided by the suffocating presence of Marcos Bidegain in the away holding role. With a rating of eight point four, the man from Mendoza was the architect of the win, showing that rare calm that marks out the best midfielders. Bidegain did not rush, spread the play with surgical precision and found a partner in striker Mauro Bardi to break up the home defence. The thirty-year-old centre-forward, who arrived almost by chance at Parque Chacabuco years ago, made the most of every chance that came his way. Bardi’s partnership with Kiki Cardozo, that skinny seventeen-year-old who plays football as if he had two heads, created constant imbalance in the attacking area that San Cristóbal could not solve. The home defenders, with Nahuel Saliba at the heart of the defence and his rating of six point six, were exposed time and again.

Bidegain was the chief architect of the emphatic result, scoring two goals in a performance of absolute weight in midfield. His ability to find pockets between the lines and finish with composure when the chance arose was decisive. Sociedad Parque Chacabuco showed no mercy: they controlled the ball, pressed in the opposition’s half and delivered at the key moments. Loly Baldo on the left wing, with his rating of seven point four, was also dangerous out wide, harrying Valenzuela. The home left-back, a thirty-four-year-old veteran who has been at the club for eleven seasons, could do little to stop Baldo’s efforts. Even Lucio Ulloa picked up a yellow card in his attempt to halt the away attack.

Juventud San Cristóbal needed reactions that never came. Octavio Cardozo, the young right-back of just twenty years of age, showed some virtues in his marking but lacked the support he would have needed to contain them. The balanced mentality both teams had set out on paper ended up a lopsided mirror: Sociedad Parque Chacabuco executed better, was sharper and superior in almost every aspect of the game. The three-goal margin reflects a fixture in which there was no real fight for the result, only a clear display of superiority from a side that knew how to make the most of every advantage presented to it. San Cristóbal were out of the contest early and the visitors managed their control without any major scares.

In the last meeting between Juventud San Cristóbal and Sociedad Parque Chacabuco: 0 wins for Juventud San Cristóbal, 0 draws and 1 for Sociedad Parque Chacabuco.

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Juventud San Cristóbal (4-4-2): Ivo Bollini, Elián Valenzuela, Ariel Tamargo, Nahuel Saliba, Octavio Cardozo, Bauti Zaffari, Mauricio Castelli, Rubén Giménez, Rodolfo Villegas, Ian Rotondo, Cacho Ballarini.

Sociedad Parque Chacabuco (4-4-2): Víctor Neumann, Tadeo Biscardi, Lalo Ferreira, Axel Chaile, Lucio Ulloa, Loly Baldo, Marcos Bidegain, Pancho Branca, Esteban Aboud, Mauro Bardi, Kiki Cardozo.

In Primera L - GBA Norte, Juventud San Cristóbal are in position 3 with 48 points; Sociedad Parque Chacabuco are in position 2 with 51 points. See the full table

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