River defeated Banfield and will play the final of the Champions Trophy against Boca

River Plate defeated Banfield 3-2 in a single-match tie, in a match played on Wednesday night, and qualified to play the final of the Champions Trophy-2020 of Argentine soccer against their archrival Boca Juniors.

In a game played at the Mario Kempes stadium, In Córdoba, River beat the Drill in a match between two runners-up, the 2020 Super League (River) and the Diego Maradona Cup 2020 (Banfield), which was not held at the time due to the coronavirus pandemic, for which this Champions Trophy will be defined two seasons later.

Even without shining too much, the red band team prevailed with goals from Santiago Simón (7 and 44), who scored with two shots from the edge of the area, and Colombian Miguel Borja (64), who powerfully finished off a fast counterattack.

For Banfield, Andrés Chávez (53) and Juan Bizans (90+2) discounted.

Paraguayan defender Robert Rojas started in Riverthe Colombian Borja and the Venezuelan Salomón Rondón, while the Uruguayans Brahian Alemán and Sebastián Sosa Sánchez performed for Banfield.

So, Boca and River will meet again in a final, almost five years after that international definition that led by the Copa Libertadoresand that was resolved in Madrid with the success of the millionaires 3-1.