Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Gimnasia Mendoza 4th with 64 points, Deportivo Santamarina 36th with 29, 35 apart. Deportivo Santamarina ranked 25th in the league on five-round form, well above their 36th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Deportivo Santamarina 0.81 scored and 1.61 conceded per game, Gimnasia Mendoza 1.14 and 0.56, with the league averaging 1.03.
Deportivo Santamarina had not won in 5 games. Recent form was uneven: 2/15 points for Deportivo Santamarina, 10/15 for Gimnasia Mendoza.
Estadio Municipal General San Martín de Tandil in Tandil staged the fixture, a ground that holds 8,762. The referee was R. López, with 22 matches in our database and 0.6 yellows per game on average. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 0-2.