Eduardo Salvio scored both goals for Boca (2m PT and 38m ST). Renzo López, from a penalty, had temporarily tied for the locals (45m PT). The goalkeeper “xeneixe” Javier García, figure along with the scorer, stopped another penalty against López himself (21m PT).
With the victory (which gave air to his questioned DT, Sebastián Battaglia), Boca affirmed itself in second place in zone 2 with 21 units; the leader is Estudiantes de La Plata, with 25.
The match was played at the Madre de Ciudades stadium and was refereed by Yael Falcón Pérez (Germán Delfino in the VAR).
Boca started with everything, to the point that it took just a minute to generate the first arrival of certain risk and one more to get ahead. The two plays had the same protagonists: Óscar Romero, Sebastián Villa and Eduardo Salvio.
In the first Romero played for Villa, the Colombian escaped from the left and sent the cross past and Salvio, entering the far post, threw it out with goalkeeper Toselli already defeated.
In the second the first two were reversed (Villa played for Romero and the Paraguayan was in the center), but Salvio did not fail. In those 120 seconds Boca was ambitious, almost overwhelming, but the 1-0 in favor, instead of giving confidence, operated in the opposite direction and was once again the disconcerting team of the last days.
Sbuttoni, who won high after a corner and headed wide, gave a first warning. From there Central Córdoba dominated and generated in proportion and Boca was sustained thanks to Javier García.
The goalkeeper first covered a shot by Renzo López, then he played his body to go out to cut off a solo arrival by Riaño and immediately flew back to take out a pumped shot by González Metilli to the side. And if he was missing something to become a figure, at 21m he stopped a penalty from López (the referee charged a foul on Marcos Rojo at the request of the VAR).
That disappointment, that of wasting an unbeatable opportunity to reach the draw that it already deserved, deflated the locals, but it was not enough for Boca to regain prominence, beyond a shot by the Peruvian Advíncula, crossed and from outside the area, which it was narrowly deflected.
The party fell into a pit and was filled with inaccuracies. But when the break came, García made his only mistake in the stage, he missed González Metilli inside the area and, this time, Renzo López changed it for a goal to put a fair 1 to 1.
The “Railway”, driven by equality, started the complement better, handling the ball, covering the spaces in the middle and winning the splits, but did not make Boca suffer, which from the age of 15 reacted and did arrive at risk rival bow.
First Benedetto had it after a center from the left by Villa; later, between Toselli and the post, they prevented the second visiting goal with a header from Aranda and later again “Pipa” had a good situation with a shot from inside the area that went over the crossbar. The exchange of Ramírez for “Octopus” González had worked.
Thus, Battaglia’s team gradually built their superiority over Central Córdoba and took the lead again with just a few minutes remaining, again with a goal from Salvio, with a header, after a cross from Villa. Then it was already another Boca, the good Boca, the usual candidate. And he took, well, the three points.
On the next date, the 13th and penultimate of the first phase of the Cup, Central Córdoba will visit Godoy Cruz de Mendoza (Monday, May 2, from 7:00 p.m.) and Boca will receive Barracas Central at the Bombonera (next Saturday, from 7:00 p.m.). ).
Earlier, on Tuesday, Boca will visit Corinthians from Brazil in San Pablo for the third date of group E of the Copa Libertadores.
Source: Ambito
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