Boca Juniors, in another poor performance, equaled 1-1 at home with Godoy Cruz for the 11th. date of the Professional League Cup with goals from Darío Benedetto, from a penalty, and Salomón Rodriguez for the visitors.
In this way, it is fourth in Zone 2 with 18 units and for now it goes to the quarterfinals of the Professional League Cup, just three dates before the end of the group stage.
With the background shouts of “let’s see the players if they can hear, with Boca’s jersey, win or die” on one side, and the classic “dale Boca” on the other, the end showed a team that attacked the “strikeouts “and without clarity before another who did not know how to give him the final blow to get a victory he deserved.
Javier García, the great figure of the match in a double save towards the end, prevented Godoy Cruz from triumphing and a loss from the poor performance of his teammates that could have consequences for the future of the coaching staff.
The soccer order of Godoy Cruz where Acevedo and Ojeda stood out were too much for the game without ideas from the locals.
Coach Sebastian Battaglia proposed a scheme, like last Sunday in the 1-1 draw against Lanús, with three midfielders and three forwards, even more thinking that he had not yet won the League Cup at home.
This time he changed the two wingers from last weekend on the offensive side for a double nine with Benedetto and Vazquez, while I shot Villa more on the right side when he had been a figure in recent games playing on the left.
But the cardinal sin was once again in the middle of the field, where only “Pol” Fernández had the ability to cut the game and on the sides Ramírez with Medina were one thing when they attacked and another when they had to cover the spaces they left.
Then the midfielder from Mendoza took advantage of those empty sectors of the field to project their midfielders, Ojeda, the most outstanding player, and permanently raise their leading markers, Breintebruch and Franco Negri.
Besides, Fabra had an unknown night, since he only projected twice on offense, he had many problems in the brand and that’s where the rival’s midfielders always arrived.
In the first half, the game went back and forth and within that scenario the visitors had three heads up against goalkeeper “xeneize”, two avoided by García and the other poorly defined by Rodríguez after a great pass between the lines by Ojeda.
On Boca’s side, Benedetto was a few meters behind and enabled Vázquez twice, who could not finish the play well.
At 34 minutes came the penalty goal executed by Benedetto after a clear grab by Ortíz to Vazquez, and when it seemed that the control of the game was going to change hands, “Tomba” continued to control the actions and that is why it was not surprising that Rodríguez He will equalize at 43 minutes with a low shot after Ramírez’s center.
In the final stage, at 15 minutes, Ojeda, only within the large area, finished off strongly and the ball hit the crossbar. Before, at 8, another shot from the steering wheel had been pulled out with effort by the local goalkeeper.
Then Battaglia put four strikers on the field, but that did not mean danger or risk plays for the opponent.
On the next date, the twelfth of the Professional League, Boca will visit Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero, next Saturday at 7:00 p.m., and then on Tuesday the 26th of this month it will go to São Paulo to play against Corinthians for the third date of the Group E of the Copa Libertadores.
While the Mendoza team will host the Malvinas Argentinas stadium against Lanús next Sunday from 9:30 p.m., for the 12th. date of the Professional League Cup.
