Estadio Pedro Bidegain - San Lorenzo

This evening was our final match in Buenos Aires and our final of the big 5 to complete. This time we headed to San Lorenzo v Sarmiento. We met up with Nico, a friend of Maty, a BA born traveller I met in Fiji.

We met on a high street cross roads and wandered down towards the ground. We speak little Spanish and Nico speaks little English but we managed to hold a conversation of some sort all the way to the ground, mainly about football of course.

San Lorenzo were all over Sarmiento as the away side could barely leave their half, but come halftime the deadlock couldn't be broken.

This torrent from San Lorenzo continued in the second half but with 20 minutes to go the away side put themselves ahead totally against the run of play. Despite all of their possession, San Lorenzo couldn't hit a barn door with their shots and were punished with the game finishing 1-0. Probably an unfortunate game to end our time in BA as it was freezing too but you can't have it all!

On the way out Dan bought a hat, partly because it was freezing, and partly to commemorate a visit to the team of Pope Francis.Read more