There is no case with Mouth. After the thunderous mazozo that represented the elimination of the Copa Libertadores before reaching the group stage, he tries to recover with domestic victories. However, suddenly, a thunderous fall arises in that local championship that should parade according to the huge budget difference that takes 99 percent of the equipment.
Boca suffered a very hard blow in Rosario, in front of the Newell’s of Keylor Navaswho fulfilled a correct performance. Fernando Gago starts Alan Velasco, the 10 million dollars, to play with Kevin Zenón and, between them, take advantage of the power of the double nine formed by Edinson Cavani and Milton Giménez.
However, Boca had no set or forcefulness. It cost you to elaborate. And on the few occasions he generated, it was difficult to define, to the point that he could not do it a penalty. As if to complete the debacle, it exhibited total fragilities. That is why Gago did not hesitate: “It was a very bad game. We had no situations, we did not win duels, we were not firm. But it is a game. Neither we were so good or now we are so bad. We have to continue working.”
Gago, Boca coach, with a face of circumstances
Luciano Herrera put the first of Newell’s with a class definition, after winning Lucas Blondel’s back after a partner headed a long kick from Keylor Navas, a classic search for the Rosario team that usually bets on the direct game. Boca fell asleep … the game had just started and lost.
Above, Newell’s would enjoy another super timely moment. Already in added time of the first part, he hit the second sake. This time it was after a free kick by Ever Banega and a header from Luciano Lollo, with the defense of Boca again without reaction in a ball above.
Boca played so badly in those first 45 minutes that his coach Fernando Gago decided to make three changes in the discount. One of them represented the entrance of Ander Herrera, who only lasted 6 minutes in the field. He felt a muscle pain and came out only towards the substitute bank, where he collapsed and exploded in tears. It is the third muscle injury of the ex Bilbao, PSG and Manchester United steering wheel, among other teams.
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In the five minutes before the departure of Ander Herrera, Boca was so disoriented that Newell’s had two hand in hand due to Xeneizes errors that did not end in goals because the shots of Carlos González and Gonzalo Maroni gave in the sticks. And a minute later that the Basque retired alone, Boca had a penalty in favor, but he could not turn it because the stick twice denied it: first, the execution of Edinson Cavani hit the left post and, after the rebound, the shot of Rodrigo Battaglia also hit that stop.
Cavani failed a penalty for Boca Juniors
Then, almost nothing happened. Boca did not find answers in the game and Newell’s walked until the end of the game calmly. And there, with the newly finished game, the second hug between Edinson Cavani and Keylor Navas, who were colleagues in the PSG and had already greeted them with affection in the previous one.
For this defeat, surely Boca will not stop qualifying to the playoffs of the Apertura tournament, which give the pass to the first 8 of each of the two areas of 15 teams. The Xeneizes already stayed out of the Libertadores and would be a scandal if the same thing happened in the league after the millionaire hiring. The problem of Gago’s team is his instability, his lack of consistency.
For now, plays 11 days, Boca is second in area A with 23 points, behind the Tigre leader, which adds 24. Below both hurricane and Argentines with 22, students with 19, Central Córdoba with 18 and barracks and defense with 17. Those would be the eight teams of the group that today would classify the playoffs. While the positions of zone B show Independiente up with 24. Then Rosario Central is second 22, River third with 20 and San Lorenzo fourth with 19. Then, Riestra and Platense with 16, Lanús with 14 and gymnastics with 12.
