He stays with 48 points with two games to go before the end of the championship
Racing Club, with 47 points, will play this Tuesday as a visitor to Lanús
Boca Juniors gave up an undefeated 15-game run this Sunday by losing 2-0 on their visit to Newell’s Old Boys in Rosario for the twenty-sixth and penultimate day of the Argentine Professional Football League Tournament, in a result that left the definition of the championship open, waiting for what Racing Club, Atlético Tucumán and Huracán can do between Monday and Tuesday.
During his visit to the Coloso stadium in the Parque de la Independencia, Boca was unable to score points after fifteen days and left empty-handed after the victory of Newell’s Old Boys against the goals from Juan Manuel García and Colombian Willer Dittain a duel where the local played with ten players from minute 34 due to the expulsion of Juan Sforza.
After this result, Boca was left with 48 units in the absence of two games: next Thursday the 81 minutes pending with Gymnastics as a visitor in the game suspended for date 23 and next weekend against Independiente as local.
The great opportunity will be this Tuesday to Racing Club (47 points), which will play as a visitor to Lanús with the great possibility of overcoming Boca although with one more game and ahead of them a local match against River Plate.
While this Monday, Atlético Tucumán (45 units) will host Unión with the possibility of equaling Boca’s line although it will remain with a more disputed game, while on Tuesday Huracán (44 integers) will be local to Platense to continue with the hope of fighting for the title.
Sunday was marked by the monumental farewell that Marcelo Gallardo de River had after eight and a half years of his cycle at the head of the ‘Millionaire’ in a match that ended with a 1-2 defeat against Rosario Central with goals from Alejo Véliz for the winner and Matías Suárez for the host.
But the party was full of fireworks, emotion and tears because both the supporters, the players and the managers wanted to say goodbye to Gallardo, the most important manager in 121 years in the history of the club.
In the remaining matches played this Sunday at the beginning of the twenty-sixth date: Talleres de Córdoba defeated the relegated Aldosivi 1-3 in Mar del Platawhile Patronato, the other club that lost the category, beat Godoy Cruz 0-1 in Mendoza.
Also Independiente won 1-0 against Banfield with a goal by Damián Batallini, on a day in which the coach Julio César Falcioni announced that he will not continue in 2023 at the head of the ‘Rojo’.
The penultimate day will also have four other Monday duels on its program: Arsenal-Barracas Central, Gymnastics-ArgentinesVélez-Estudiantes and Sarmiento-San Lorenzo, and two crossings on Tuesday: Colón-Defense and Justice and Central Córdoba-Tigre.
