Main course to close the eighth date of El Metro, with a fundamental duel between suitors to reach the Quarterfinals directly. Both teams started defending quite a lot, with 2-3 as the most common; which caused many shots of three although with little effectiveness. As the minutes went by, Sayago began to understand that his game was loading inside and Riauka took advantage of it both by scoring and generating spaces for triples that gave him the first advantage of eight points; The albiceleste continued to abuse the outside shot with a very low percentage, with no ideas in offense he could barely rescue with Aguiar some penetrations that left him behind 18-12 in the first.
Cordón’s improvement was first and foremost defensive, he did not concede points in the first four minutes of the second and although it was still difficult for him to score, five of the “Pica” made the partial 5-0 to get on target. Those of Ariel and La Vía momentarily forgot about Riauka, so their attack did not flow in the same way, but Jones was the one who appeared playing smartly to show his face for his team. Good income from Marotta to organize and Fernando Ferreira to punish with triples left Losada’s team behind only three points, 32-29 heading into halftime.
Again Sayago started the room with many difficulties and Cordón continued to enlarge. The bad decisions of the Diaz team in attack gave running points for the albiceleste, who with a 9-0 opened the third going to the front. The worrying drought of La Vía’s men this time lasted for six long minutes without converting, until the bench with Arrillaga and Silva contributed their first points late but on time; although the response from those below the bridge was immediate with triples from Bastón and Marotta that left the score 48-40 in favor of Cordón, thanks to a resounding 19-8 quarter.
This time the one who dried up to open the last one was Cordón who did not score in the first five minutes, and Sayago with a great entrance from Bonet as a revulsive put a 9-0 that put him back in front. The one who broke that drought could not be other than Mauricio Aguiar with five key points to break the spell; then Marotta made a huge debut with a double and a nice assist, which gave Cordón an interesting four-point lead with a minute and a half to play. Sayago put together two good defenses and Bola appeared with a double and a tremendous bomb to put Saya ahead with less than a minute to play. Cordón attacked the painting with Barrera (Sayago unusually did not cut with three fouls to hit) and Bernardo contorted in the air to define with a beautiful past tray that seemed to be heading the night. But everything was not said, the last one was for Sayago with five seconds and when it seemed that the play was getting dirty, Jones took a rabbit out of the hat and nailed a real dagger to the albiceleste heart with a brutal triple that decreed the triumph on a full night of emotions, where those of “Patita” Díaz took much more than one point.