San Lorenzo keep up the pressure near the top in Argentina

Dave Cohen - 3 December 2008 05:22

Action from the San Lorenzo Vs Boca Juniors on 2 November 2008. Pablo Barrientos (L) of San Lorenzo is a tussle with Fabian Vargas (R) of Boca Juniors

San Lorenzo stayed in the Argentine title hunt by beating Huracan 4-1 on Tuesday as they played the remaining seventy four minutes of a game that had been suspended on Saturday by a torrential downpour.

Tuesday’s match was divided into two halves of thirty-seven minutes. Huracan took the field leading 1-0 from Saturday’s sixteen minutes play, but with only ten men as Javier Pastore had been sent off before the interruption.

Although the red card and the score line stood, the teams were allowed to make changes from their original line-ups.

Huracan held out for the first half on Tuesday but fell apart after some sloppy defending in the second half.

Paraguayan midfielder Aureliano Torres headed San Lorenzo’s equaliser in the third minute of the second half—effectively the fifty-sixth minute of the match—then supplied two free kicks from which Cristian Chavez and Andres Silvera headed two more.

Silvera completed the rout in the thirty-fifth minute of the second half with his second of the day.

The win took San Lorenzo into second place in the Apertura championship with thirty-three points from seventeen games, two behind leaders Boca Juniors and ahead of Tigre on goal difference with two matches each to play.