Boca agreed this Wednesday to the quarterfinals of the Argentine Cup after beating Agropecuario Argentino, led by Carlos Casares, by 1-0, at the Padre Martearena stadium, in Salta, where he played 83 minutes with one more footballer due to a violent infraction by the defender of the First National team, Milton Leyendeker, who injured striker Exequiel Zeballos and caused his immediate expulsion.
#CopaArgentinaEnTyCSports⚽ OHHHH! Very strong kick from Milton Leyendeker to Zeballos and all @BocaJrsOficial order red for 2 @Agropecuario_Of
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This reference to the very violent blow that Leyendeker applied to Zeballos and he injured his right ankle, motivating his immediate replacement by Sebastián Villa, to analyze the development of the rest of the match practically in its entirety.
“Changuito” Zeballos at the end of the game went to undergo tests at a clinic in Salta and showed an injury, but this Thursday others will be carried out to determine the exact degree of the injury, which apparently would be serious.
It is that in addition to being a rival of a lower category, the group led by Diego Osella is located in the 25th. place among the 37 participants in the First National championship, and this was in itself a major conditioning factor increased because he also had to play almost the entire match with one less man.
However, this apparent superiority in quality and also in quantity, was not noticed throughout the entire match in the way that Boca should have expressed it, confirming the irregular path it has followed since Hugo Ibarra became in the replacement of Sebastián Battaglia.
And proof of all this was that the Boca goal came from a stopped ball, when a corner kick taken by Sebastián Villa, replacing the injured Zeballos, was connected with a volley by Guillermo “Pol” Fernández, winning the position of the also entered Lucas Vesco inside the “sojero” area.
#CopaArgentinaEnTyCSports⚽ MOUTH GOAL! Pol Fernández opened the scoring for @BocaJrsOficial who already took advantage of @Agropecuario_Of .
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The reference has to do with the fact that due to collective, individual and quantitative superiority, Boca would have had to have generated enough scoring options to finish the game calmly, but rather that same first half.
But this team from Boca went through Salta to fill the Padre Martearena and sign autographs or take selfies with their local fans more than to play soccer, and then incredibly they ended up suffering and Agropecuario was about to tie it in the final minutes of the match, and especially in the last action, when the fourth minute of injury time was played and the entered Mateo Maccari screwed the ball under the goal, with Javier García, this Wednesday replacing Agustín Rossi, without the possibility of reaction.
Garcia’s manifest anger towards his teammates was a true reflection of what he was for most of the game and ended up being his team.
But with that little bit that he showed, Boca was enough to go to the quarterfinalswhere he will wait for Quilmes or Deportivo Madryn to meet his next rival on this path to defending the title of this contest that he already won in the previous edition by beating Talleres, from Córdoba, in the final.
And the Agropecuario thing was more than worthy, given the circumstances, because it also sharpened the doubts of his rival, who rarely had the man on the substitute bench who concentrated all eyes, the goalkeeper Agustín Rossi, who for not wanting to renew his contract caused in the last hours the arrival about the closing of Sergio Romero’s pass book.
Surely this victory, small but victory in the end, will allow him to put out any fire that has been lit from this matter, because that is Boca and it will be until the next time.
