Batallini's 46-minute cameo tops a grade sheet nobody wanted to win

San Telmo won 3-2 and still nobody on our index cracked 5.2. Martin Leonel Batallini tops the grades from just 46 minutes, with fellow half-shift man Jeronimo Porto at 5.1 from 44 — per-90 normalisation doing its work, rewarding two impact cameos over every 90-minute player on the pitch.

That is where our grade disagrees with the occasion. A five-goal Primera Nacional thriller should mint heroes; ours records a midfield of 5.0s — Milton Zanotti and Leonardo Jara for Almirante Brown, Martín González and Elías Britez for San Telmo — and a wall of 4.8 defenders either side. Both goalkeepers, Joaquín Enrico and Bruno Galvan, sit at 4.6, with no clean-sheet case to make for either.

With no reference rating in the column to argue with, the scoreboard becomes the sparring partner — and our index calls it an exaggeration. San Telmo's 6-2-2 shape ground out the win, but the grades say this was settled by substitutions and small margins, not mastery.