A dagger here, a dagger there, a dagger and another dagger… Every goal from the modest Patronage was a dagger for this giant Mouth that already seems accustomed to a dangerous instability. Now the xeneizes fell 0-3 in Paraná. Something similar happened in the Monumental, with this River that culminated full of doubts and kneeling in his house by the humble Sarmiento de Junín, who enjoyed a historic 2-1.
After the unfair elimination in the Libertadores, vice president Juan Román Riquelme decided to fire coach Sebastián Battaglia and captain Carlos Izquierdoz. The problem is that he chose a DT that he never managed in the First Division (Hugo Ibarra) and the team is much more inconsistent than before. Boca accumulates 6 defeats in 11 dates…
Marcos Rojo’s injury in the warm-up movements is not valid as an excuse. Once again Boca was a disjointed, fragile, light construction, without solidity in defense, without creativity or depth in attack, with worrying individual expressions.
Everything happened to Boca against a rival like Patronato, which today is relegated to the Second Division. The Paraná team played without complexes, with intelligence, with ambition. Axel Rodriguez scored the first between the legs of Agustín Rossi, Alexander Sosa drew the second with a header and, in the second half, Jonás Acevedo shouted the third helped by a deflection. In these days will it be known how much this very hard defeat affects Boca?
River Plate fell with Atlético Sarmiento
River also comes from staying out of the Libertadores. To this negative impact was added the departure of Julián Álvarez to Manchester City, plus that of Enzo Fernández to Benfica. However, under the leadership of Marcelo Gallardo, he brought in Colombian Miguel Borja, who had played a great game from the outset. It was time to ratify against Sarmiento, but…
River was surprised. Sarmiento neutralized him, gave him two blows out of sheer opportunism in the first half (a nice definition by Guido Mainero and a header from Federico Andueza), he knew how to sustain him in the second stage and won for the first time in history at the Monumental.
River discounted with a header from Emanuel Mammana, but it did not reach him. This time there was no hummingbird dance, there was no Borja fantasy, and the millionaire left full of anger, lamenting his second defeat in the last three presentations at the Monumental.
Exciting tie between Racing and Tigre
The same day as the slaps received by Boca and River there was also a great game in Avellaneda: Racing 3 – Tigre 3. The Academy won twice by two goals, but the Matador never gave up, he took advantage of a rude mistake by goalkeeper Gastón “Chila” Gómez for the transitory 2-3 and tied it two minutes from the end via Mateo Retegui. Fernando Gago, DT of Racing, finished due to the changes.
In addition, on Sunday, Aldosivi beat Lanús 1-0 as a visitor, while in Vicente Lopez the story between Platense and Barracas Central ended 0-0. Today, on the same date, the 11th, three more matches will be played: Colón – Independiente, Rosario Central – Central Córdoba and Defense and Justice – Arsenal.
There is only one leader in Argentine soccer, also undefeated. It is a gigantic surprise. It is Atlético Tucumán with 25 points. Second with 21 is Gymnastics. Third, with 20, Argentines. Then, with 19, Racing. While with 18 Godoy Cruz, Platense and Unión appear. At 10 units from the pointer!, with 15, in positions 12th and 13th, are River and Boca. Too far. Will they come back?
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