“I came back for this,” he says Angel Di María With a look full of brightness and a beautiful smile. It is the noise at its expression, happy. It is the noodle of the last four or five years. A winning, cheerful noodle, free of any type of load. Already all of the Argentine National Team knew how to get them out in the best way. And now, in the last stretch of his career, he enjoys in his Rosario Central and in the hard league of the world champion. Shines Di María and her team is positioned among the first four of Group B and also leads alone in the annual qualifying table for the Libertadores 2026 …
Already the noodle imposed some days ago his seal no less than in Classic Rosarino. Now it was the light in a great victory against the giant River. Di María threw the centers in both goals, in the first one that after some rebound resulted in the 1-1 marked by Franco Ibarra and in the second that after a forced clearance of Gonzalo Montiel found a shocking missile of Ignacio Malcorra.
He was also decisive in a crucial action that marked the game: he caused River to keep a man less at the close of the first half. It is that in the quarter -hour of that stage Juan Portillo saw the red for two infractions against Di María, both sanctioned with a yellow card. In the first warning, the left -hander, after receiving the blow, got up immediately and faced River’s, which reacted taking him by the neck. And in the second, the noodle threatened, faced and went in speed when Portillo went down without mercy.
Image of the Central-River Plate Rosary
Then, Di María put in depth balls with her unique class and even illuminated with a sensual pipe. Every time the new position in which it moves for a few weeks, more centralized, more driver, less extreme, feels better. Participate with greater continuity and with its hierarchy marks differences.
River had begun to win it with a delicious pass by Juanfer Quintero and a great resolution by Miguel Borja. The game was even, but the expulsion was too felt by Marcelo Gallardo’s team, which was loaded with physical wear for the hard quarter -final match won to Racing on Thursday. However, in the end, he almost tied it with a shot of the youthful Baptist Dadin that gave in the stick.
Gallardo analyzed it like this: “We put ourselves in advantage and we were very well. I think it was the best moment of us in this last time, until the expulsion conditioned us. We have to be smarter so that that does not happen to us again.”
Before Central 2 – River 1, he had played and thrashed Boca. Without Miguel Russo in the substitute bank (he continues to recover from his delicate health problem), the Xeneizes crushed a fragile Newell’s and ended up celebrating a 5-0, a result that could be even wider.
Boca thrashed Newell’s
Boca, in the first half hour of play, already won by three goals apart, with a double of a moving and unstoppable Milton Giménez and with a cry of Ayrton Costa. In the second half, Brian Aguirre emerged to push her in the room and Lautaro Blanco to celebrate after a left -footed shot between the goalkeeper’s legs.
In this way, Boca is installed as a pointer in Group A, with 17 points and better goal difference than three other teams that reach the same score. Along the same lines of the 17 units are Union, Barracas Central and Students. Then, Defense and Justice, Tigre and Hurricane appear with 16. Argentinos Juniors and Central Córdoba are 15.
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In Group A, they send Riestra with 22 points and Vélez with 21, but today everything can change because both will face in one of the matches that will close this day 11. Third is Lanús with 20. Cuartos, River and Rosario Central with 18. Then, San Lorenzo with 16, Atlétic 53 points is Rosario Central (he has one game less), followed by Boca with 50 and River with 49.
