The franjirrojos defeated Instituto de Córdoba 3-1 and extended their advantage over Talleres to 10 points
The ‘Xeneize’ maintained his bad line and was thrashed 4-0 on his visit to Godoy Cruz
River Plate took a new step towards the title this Thursday by defeating with authority by 3-1 to Institute of Cordoba and get ten points from his escort Talleres, while Boca Juniors fell for 4-0 in view of Godoy Cruz in Mendoza and added his ninth setback in the Argentine Soccer Professional League Tournament.
With goals by Uruguayan Nicolás De la Cruz, Ignacio Fernández and Lucas Beltránthe ‘Millionaire’ of Martín Demichelis managed to reverse an initial disadvantage due to both santiago rodriguez to reach 50 points and get ten from Talleres de Córdoba, who will visit Lanús this Saturday for the twenty-first day of the contest. In this way, and with six days to go before the end of the championship, River was very close to adding its 38th local star and the first after the departure of Marcelo Gallardo as coach. In addition, the ‘millionaire’ coach gave himself the pleasure of debuting the youthful Claudio Echeverri, barely 17 years old and one of the great promises of the club’s youth system, who came on in the 62nd minute to replace Ignacio Fernández.
The counterpart of this moment of the ‘Millionaire’ in the domestic tournament is Boca Juniors, who suffered a tough defeat when they fell 4-0 on their visit to Godoy Cruz, in Mendoza, with the goals from Diego Rodríguez, from a penalty, Hernán López, Tadeo Allende and Tomás Conechny. After this ninth setback in 21 games, with eight wins and four draws, the team led by Jorge Almirón is located with 28 points, very far from the fight for the title and, most worrying, increasingly complicated in the projection to reach the qualification places to the international tournaments of 2024.
In another result of this day on Thursday, Racing Club drew 1-1 with Barracas Central in a game that had the opening of the scoring for the local by Hannibal Moreno and the tie in minute 85 by Francisco Alvarez. With this result, the ‘Academy’ was left with 27 points in a situation similar to that of the ‘Xeneize’ with the classification to the continental tournaments.
Tiger This Thursday he gave a new ‘blow’ to Velez Sarsfield by beating him by 2-1 and leave him with the possibility of finishing this day in the last position of the classification. Aaron Molinas and Miguel Brizuela, own goalthey scored for the winner and Elias Cabrera He did it for the visit, which was left with 18 points only ahead of Huracán, Banfield and Arsenal, who still have to play their matches this day.
Matchday 21 began this Wednesday with a 1-1 draw between Estudiantes and San Lorenzo, as well as a 0-0 draw between Central Córdoba with Gimnasia and Esgrima La Plata. It will be completed in the next four days with the following schedule: Huracán-Newell’s Old Boys and Argentinos Juniors-Defensa y Justicia (Friday); Unión-Independiente and Lanús-Talleres (Saturday); Arsenal-Platense, Rosario Central-Colón and Sarmiento-Atlético Tucumán (Sunday); and Belgrano-Banfield (Monday).
