August 18, 2024, 9:46 PM
August 18, 2024, 9:46 PM
Boca Juniors overcame a early disadvantage already a first time frightening to turn around Saint Lawrence and defeat him by 3-2in an electrifying classic on Sunday in The Bombonerafor the eleventh date of the Professional League of Argentine soccer, which has as its leader Hurricane.
Both teams lined up substitutessince they have matches for the Libertadores Cups and South American in the next few days, but the Cyclone He entered much more concentrated and did not take long to reach the area of a sleeping Boca with risk, until Andres Vombergar (19, from penalty) opened the scoring after a handball from the captain Marcos Rojo.
Bewildered, he Xeneize was exposed to a thrashing that San Lorenzo did not know how to take to the net, but everything changed in the second half, when the DT Diego Martinez He performed surgery with three changes to renew a desolate team.
The local team recovered and reversed the score with goals from Milton Gimenez (50) and the Uruguayans Marcelo Saracchi (53) and Miguel Merentiel (89), but the Cyclone had time to close the gap after a penalty committed by Saracchi, which cost him the red card to the Uruguayan side, and who scored Ivan Leguizamon (90+6, penalty) for the final score of 3-2.
The victory silenced the criticism after a first half very poorand coach Martínez accepted that “the team reversed a bad image in the first half and for which I am the most responsible. We made mistakes mainly on our own. In the second half we corrected them and the team beat the rival.”
With this victory, Boca reaches 17 pointsrecovers positions in the board and re-enters the conversation by the qualification of the League, while San Lorenzo deepens its crisis, submerged in the last positions and with just one victory in ten days.
At night, Hurricane regained the tournament lead by defeating 1-0 as a local to Belgrano with a goal from the Chilean Williams Alarcon (36), enough to stay with the three points and climb to the top with 23 pointsahead of Athletic Tucuman (22) and Velez (21), in addition to remaining the last unbeaten.
In the North, Athletic Tucuman took another successful step in his excellent campaign and climbed to the second place by defeating by 2-0 to Studentswith the goals of Matthew Colonel (56, penalty) and Marcelo Estigarribia (66) for the ‘Dean‘, which has five consecutive victories and nine games without losing.
In a match between two teams fighting for the permanence, Sarmiento and Tiger They did not take advantage and tied without goals in Junin.
These are the results of the eleventh round:
Platense-Barracas Central 0-0
Newell’s-Racing 0-1
Independent-Rosario Central 1-0
Lanus-Central Cordoba 1-1
Gymnastics and Fencing-River 1-1
Workshops-Independent Rivadavia 2-1
Velez-Instituto 1-0
Boca-San Lorenzo 3-2
Atletico Tucuman-Students 2-0
Sarmiento-Tiger 0-0
Hurricane-Belgrano 1-0
Defense and Justice-Banfield
– Pts J G E P GF GC
1. Hurricane 23 11 6 5 0 12 4
2. Atletico Tucuman 22 11 6 4 1 13 7
3. Velez Sarsfield 21 11 6 3 2 17 8
4. Racing 20 11 6 2 3 18 9
5. Workshops 20 11 5 5 1 17 12
6. Union 19 10 5 4 1 10 5
7. Institute 18 11 5 3 3 13 8
8. Boca Juniors 17 11 4 5 2 15 10
9. River Plate 16 11 4 4 3 15 10
10. Lanús 16 11 4 4 3 16 17
11. Belgrano 16 11 4 4 3 14 15
12. Students 15 11 4 3 4 13 11
. Central Rosary 15 11 4 3 4 13 11
14. Riestra 15 10 5 0 5 11 10
15. Rivadavia District 15 11 4 3 4 8 7
16. LP Gymnastics 14 11 4 2 5 13 13
17. Independent 14 11 3 5 3 8 9
18. Sarmiento 13 11 3 4 4 8 9
19. Argentinos Juniors 13 10 4 1 5 8 12
20. Godoy Cruz (1) 12 9 3 3 3 7 8
21. Platense 12 11 3 3 5 8 11
22. Newell’s 11 11 3 2 6 6 12
23. Banfield 10 10 2 4 4 9 14
24. Tiger 10 11 2 4 5 10 17
25. Central Barracks 8 11 1 5 5 5 12
26. San Lorenzo (1) 7 10 1 4 5 7 11
27. Defense and Justice 5 10 0 5 5 7 17
28. Central Cordoba 5 11 1 2 8 10 22
(1) Their match was suspended at 48 minutes due to incidents. They were tied 1-1
