The ‘Millionaire’ won 3-2 and will face off against the ‘Xeneize’
Two goals from Simón and one from ‘Colibrí’ Borja made the goals from Chávez and Bizans sterile
River Plate defeated tonight by 3-2 to Banfield and qualified to play the final of the rescheduled Champions Trophy 2020, where he will define the title against Boca Juniors in a new edition of the Argentine soccer superclassic. A double of Santiago Simon and the rest of the Colombian Miguel ‘Hummingbird’ Borja It was enough for the ‘Millionaire’ to prevail against a rival who discounted through Andres Chavez and Juan Bizansin a match played at the Mario Kempes stadium in the city of Córdoba.
The tournament, postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, is scheduled for the beginning of 2023 with the semifinal between Banfield, runner-up in the 2020 Maradona Cup (completed in January 2021), and River, runner-up in the 2019/20 Super League. Martín Demichelis’s team qualified for the final where they will face Boca Juniors, champion of both tournaments of the 2020 season, in search of crowning the winner of the Champions Trophy which in 2021 was won by River Plate (beating Colón 4-0 in the final) and in 2022 was won by Racing Club (defeated 2-1 by Boca Juniors).
This will be the 21st time that Boca and River define a direct elimination, final or tiebreaker confrontation that saw the Millionaire win 13 times, while in the remaining seven he saw Xeneize victorious. For its part, this will be the fourth time that the Argentine Superclásico will define a champion with a Boca coronation (1-0) in the first antecedent of the 1976 Nacional, with a goal by Rubén ‘Chapa’ Suñe. River prevailed in the remaining two: the 2018 Super Cup in Mendoza (2-0) with goals from Gonzalo ‘Pity’ Martínez and Ignacio Scocco, and the 2018 Copa Libertadores (5-3 aggregate) that was decided at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium from Madrid.
