It was an ideal occasion to Mouth to erase the worrying defeat in Colombia against Deportivo Cali at the premiere of the Liberators. He played in the Bombonera, before alwaysready, a modest Bolivian team. It was a night for Boca to shine and score goals. However, it was 2-0 that did not convince. It is that again the xeneize had a hard time exhibiting a reassuring performance. He didn’t even make it by playing full time with one other man.
“We are building an identity as a team”, explained Sebastián Battaglia. Although he tries to explain it, he does not close this Boca. It is difficult to define a style. There is a search idea, but how it is not clear, although it has brought together fine-footed footballers such as Pol Fernández, Oscar Romero and Juan Ramírez in the middle of the field.
The youthful Exequiel Zeballos pointed the way in the first half, to pure overflow, to pure freshness. What’s more, he put together the play that broke the tie by piling up a couple of rivals and taking out a center-assistance that Darío Benedetto pushed into the empty goal. He was averaging the first half, a while before Rodrigo Ramallo was expelled for kicking Frank Fabra in the face, who was on the floor.
The concern was triggered by Boca’s weak production in the first 45 minutes against a rival with such weakness. Later, already in the second stage, with one more man, Always Ready directly no longer kicked the goal. There yes, the xeneizes multiplied goal situations: four Eduardo Salvio, two Luis Vázquez, one Oscar Romero… However, the second goal was only celebrated by Boca in the fifth minute added with a header by Benedetto.
‘Toto’ Salvio, in a match against Always
It was a 2-0 that helped Boca to add its first 3 points in the Group. Deportivo Cali and Always Ready have the same amount, while Corinthians is last with 0. The bad news for the Argentine giant was the muscle injury of goalkeeper Agustín Rossi, who was replaced at halftime.
There were two other Argentine teams that played yesterday for the Libertadores. Colón fell 3-1 to Cerro Porteño in Paraguay, while Talleres lost by the same score against Flamengo in Brazil.
In turn, for the Copa Sudamericana, Independiente beat General Caballero from Paraguay 2-0 with goals from Leandro Benegas and Alan Soñora. Unión beat Oriente Petrolero of Bolivia 3-1 as a visitor and Defensa y Justicia lost 0-1 at home against Goianiense of Brazil.
Today in both cups there will also be action. For the Libertadores, River will host Fortaleza from Brazil, while Estudiantes will visit Nacional from Uruguay. And for South America, Racing will be local against Cuiaba from Brazil.
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