Overview

• Banfield scored three goals in a nine-minute span in the second half to overturn a 2-0 halftime deficit and secure a 3-2 victory over Estudiantes.
• Rodrigo Auzmendi opened the comeback followed by Lautaro Ríos’s equalizer and Martín Río’s match-winner.
• Estudiantes coach Eduardo Domínguez had rotated his squad to preserve starters for the Libertadores tie after a win in Paraguay.
• Multiple Estudiantes players reported ailments post-Paraguay, with Joaquín Pereyra confirmed to undergo surgery for a fractured fifth metatarsal.
• Banfield’s second Clausura victory lifts them into midtable in Zone A, leaving Estudiantes to shore up fitness and squad depth before the rematch.