Boca Juniors qualified this Wednesday for the semifinals of the Argentine Cup after defeating Quilmes 3-2 in Mendoza, an instance where there will be no superclassic because River Plate suffered an unexpected elimination after falling on penalties 4-3 against Patronato de Paraná after equalizing 2-2 in regulation time, in La Rioja.
Darío Benedetto and the youth Gonzalo Morales and Luca Langoni scored for Boca in a 3-2 win against Quilmes, who scored through Julian Bonetto and Mariano Pavone.
After this victory for ‘Xeneize’ against a rival from the second division of Argentine football at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza, the team hosted by Hugo Ibarra He was two wins away from adding a new title.
The auriazul squad wore a black bracelet in mourning after the death of a supporter after an accident involving a bus that was transporting more than 30 fans from Buenos Aires to Mendoza.
Boca’s rival in the semifinals will be Patronato de Paraná, which surprised River Plate and eliminated it in a match played at the Carlos Augusto Mercado Luna stadium in La Rioja after the tie in two with goals from Jonathan Herrera and Marcelo Estigarribia for the winner, while Bruno Zuculini and the Colombian Juan Fernando Quintero scored for the ‘Millionaire’.
In the definition by penalties, goalkeeper Facundo Altamirano’s performance was key, who held off Matías Suárez’s last shot so that Jorge Valdéz Chamorro later sealed the classification of the people from Entre Ríos to the semifinals.
This elimination of River from the Copa Argentina condemns the “Millionaire” to a very adverse year that will end, almost certainly, without titles and still with the uncertainty of whether he will be able to seal his participation in the next edition of the Copa Libertadores.
The other semifinal of this edition of the Argentine Cup will be played by Banfield and Talleres de Córdoba, the latter who eliminated Independiente on Wednesday after winning 4-2 in the penalty shootout after equalizing goalless in a match held at the Centenario stadium from Chaco.
Banfield had sealed their passport to this instance on Tuesday after beating Godoy Cruz 3-1 also on penalties after equalizing 1-1 in regulation time.
