Xeneize won 0-1 with a goal from youthful Luca Langoni, accumulates 15 games undefeated and takes advantage of Atlético Tucumán’s puncture, which equalized
They have a 3-point advantage over Tucumán and have a pending match, which they play this Wednesday against Gimnasia y Esgrima
Boca Juniors stretched its series without defeats to 15 games by winning this Wednesday by 0-1 a Sarmiento in Junín in one of the outstanding meetings of the twenty-fifth day of the Professional League Tournament of Argentine football, which kept Xeneize as the only leader in the classification. With a goal from the youthful Luca Langoni, decisive in the final stretch of the tournament, the team led by Hugo Ibarra took the three points from their trip to Junín and accumulates 48 with a pending match against Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata that will play next Wednesday . Despite suffering a hard injury of its captain and emblem red frames -torn cruciate ligaments in his right knee- and a penalty saved by the central defender himself, Boca was able to overcome these adversities and achieve a new victory that brings him closer to the two-time championship in the season after consecration in the last Professional League Cup.
Atletico Tucumanescort of Boca, missed a penalty at the last minute and ended up drawing 1-1 as local with Central Rosary to get away and stay with 45 points, three behind Boca but with one more game played. Racing Club, meanwhile, will be able to get closer to one point behind Xeneize and reach 47 if it wins this Friday as a visitor against Colón in Santa Fe, in one of the four matches that will put an end to this twenty-fifth day of the gaucho contest .
In another outstanding result of this date, River Plate was imposed on Wednesday by 2-1 in view of Platense, in what was the prelude to the great announcement made this Thursday by Marcelo Gallardo, who in a brief press conference announced that he would not continue to lead the Millionaire in 2023. In this way, the “Muñeco” ended a cycle of eight years and a half leading the club in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Núñez, where he won 14 titles and, among them, two Copa Libertadores. The victory against Platense left River with 44 points and with a minimal chance of winning the title, although it will depend on the points that Boca can leave on the road in its last three games. Also, Independent Tuesday equalized 2-2 as local before Central Barrackson the same day that San Lorenzo won by 0-1 a Gym in La Plata with an acrobatic goal from Paraguayan Adam Bareiro.
On this day, the relegation of one of the two teams that will go down for the next season of the second division was also consummated: Aldosiviwho sentenced the loss of category of elite when falling in Mar del Plata for 0-1 in view of banfield. In other results of this twenty-fifth date, this Thursday Velez Sarsfield won by 2-1 a Cordoba Workshops, Patronage was imposed at home by 0-1 in view of Lanus, Godoy Cruz matched with blank marker in view of Argentine Juniors Y Tiger was imposed in Rosario by 0-2 versus Newell’s Old Boys.
This Friday, in addition to the presentation of Racing Club in Santa Fe against Colón, there will be three other matches: Defense and Justice against Unión, Hurricane against Estudiantes and Arsenal against Central Córdoba.
