After his unfortunate passage through Córdoba, where he had gotten it cheap, Boca improved on Sunday against Platense and kept the three points for the fourth date of a Professional Soccer League that offers Lanús as a pointer with a full cardboard: four played, four won.
Without touching great heights, far from it, Mouth improved noticeably and with goals from Jorge Figal, the Uruguayan Miguel Merentiel and Norberto Briasco after an electrifying run they defeated the good Platense 3-1 led by Martín Palermo.
The “Titan” -Boca’s all-time top scorer in the professional era with 236 goals- was deeply moved when he was received with a thunderous ovation and also when receiving a plaque from two members of the Football Council, his former teammates Mauricio Serna and Marcelo Delgado. Pure emotion in the Bombonera.
In the game itself, the “Squid” went from more to less: He reached a temporary tie through Nicolás Servetto and even had a couple more favorable opportunities against Sergio “Chiquito” Romero’s goal, but in the second stage he decreased in intensity and depth.
In Avellaneda, Independiente was surprised by the ascendant Defensa y Justicia Directed by Professor Julio Vaccari, who captured his triumph in the Libertadores de América in favor of the signatures in the network of Nicolás Fernández and Santiago Solari.
The Santa Fe classic ended 1-1 (Luciano Aued opened the account for the local team, the “tatengue”, while the Colombian Baldomero Perlaza gave Colón his first point in the championship).
At the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium in Córdoba, the score was resolved in the first quarter of an hour, when Francisco Pizzini and Michael Santos scored the goals with which Talleres gave an account of Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero.
This Monday they will complete the date Sarmiento-San Lorenzo (19.15) and Atlético Tucumán-Vélez (21.30).
On Saturday Lanús revalidated his great moment and his meteoric growth to crush Rosario Central for an unappealable 3-0 that Franco Troyanski, Pedro de la Vega and Franco Orozco established in the net.
In Victoria, for their part, Tigre and River played an extremely entertaining 90 minutes whose outcome favored the Millionaires thanks to this alleged law that “two headers in the area are a goal”: the second and decisive one corresponded to Leandro González Pirez, who in 2015 had played 35 matches with the “Matador” shirt.
In Mendoza Estudiantes de La Plata came out as a loserwithout playing well, it is true, far from it, but with the decisive header from Cordovan Luciano Lollo that left Godoy Cruz empty-handed.
Argentinos Juniors also returned to victory, at their stadium in La Paternal, to demolish Belgrano de Córdoba 3-0 and end their undefeated status. The goals for Bicho Colorado from La Paternal were scored by Francisco González Metilli, Santiago Montiel and Gabriel Avalos. (Federico Redondo -the son of Prince Fernando from Madrid- and Alejandro Rébola were expelled).
In the Parque Independencia and despite playing 35 minutes ten against eleven (expulsion of the Colombian Willer Ditta), Newell’s carried out their match against the faded Banfield and submitted it thanks to two scores from the Paraguayan Gustavo Velázquez and the also “Coffee Maker” Jherson Mosquera.
On Friday Racing, Huracán and Gimnasia had comfortably beaten Arsenal, Barracas Central and Instituto, in that order.
Gonzalo Piovi, Facundo Mura and Matías Rojas sealed Racing’s 3-0; Gabriel Gudiño and Juan Gauto signed in the network the 2-0 of the Globo escort of Garnet; and in the Forest, the youthful Gimnasia directed by Sebastián “Chirola” Romero beat “La Gloria” from Alta Córdoba with goals from Nicolás Contín and Eric Ramírez.
Lanús is the only leader with 12 points, escorted by Huracán with 10, while Talleres, Defensa y Justicia and River have 9 units.
