Puerto Cortes, Honduras
Platense and Real España rejoiced with good football after a 2-2 draw in a rescheduled game on match day 2 of 2021 closure of the National League of Honduras.
The clash should have happened last February, but it was not played out since the aurinegros requested cancellation of the meeting because they footballers called up in the Sub-23 of Honduras.
After 18 minutes, Carlos Bernárdez was in charge of scoring the first goal of the match by taking a right hand before Buba López’s departure.
The machine, through its goalscorer Ramiro Rocca, was in charge of matching the cards at minute 38.
Already in the complementary phase, the locals started to win again with a powerful shot from Henry Romero in the 58th minute.
But then it seemed that Real Spain would lose, the equalizer came on minute 86 and that was thanks to an own goal by Buenos Aires defender Marco Martínez.
With this, the Sampedrano team has not beaten Platense at the Excelsior stadium in Puerto Cortés since February 23, 2014 when they defeated him with a lone goal from Uruguayan Julio Pablo “Palomo” Rodríguez.
El Tiburon is fourth in the group A table with 11 points. Real España for its part is the leader with 16 units and if it wins, it will consolidate at the top of the North Zone group.
Starting lineups:
Platense: José Pineda, Víctor Arauz, Marco Martínez, Dabirson Castillo, César Oseguera, Henry Romero, Ángel Domínguez, Brayan Reyes, Aldo Fajardo, Yerson Gutiérrez and Carlos Bernárdez
Real Spain: Luis López; Allans Vargas, Franco Flores, Getsel Montes, Franklin Flores; Gerson Chavez, Jhow Benavídez, José Alejandro Reyes, Yeison Mejía, Ramiro Rocca and Omar Rosas.