Boca asserted the best football texture of their individualities and the greater weight of their shirt, in addition to the locality that, however, in the group stage had been quite elusive, since it was only on the last date that they were able to win their first game in the Bombonera against the recently promoted Barracas Central.
Those led by Sebastián Battaglia were slightly superior in the initial period, when they had a scoring opportunity converted by Guillermo “Pol” Fernández (it would have been the first since his return to Boca) and canceled at the request of the VAR due to a prior foul (elbow) of the assistant, Sebastián Villa, on the face of Nicolás Tripicchio, and the goal that was validated by the Colombian over 40 minutes.
That conquest “freed” Boca for the second stage, since the two times that Villa was able to escape from the cage that the other coach Sebastián, Beccacece, had prepared for him, on the right side of his defense, the ball ended up inside the arc of Luis Ezequiel Unsain.
The first time it was not worth it, but the second time it was, when a great clearance from his compatriot Frank Fabra behind Tripicchio’s back and a subsequent dribble to leave him snubbed, allowed the one born in the Colombian town of Bello to next Thursday, May 19 will turn 26, shoot from a closed angle to the near post and open the scoring with the involuntary collaboration of Unsaín, who covered that post poorly.
From that conquest, which occurred just a minute after Beccacece corrected, in Marcelo Bielsa style, the circulation deficit that his team had in the middle of the field, removing Gabriel Hachen before the end of that first half to put in his place another Colombian, midfielder Raúl Loaiza, as was said, Boca was encouraged to fly a little more.
And for that the auriazul team “paid” their rival at the start of the complement “with the same coin”, which simply and plainly applied a greater control of the ball, something for which Alan Varela was fundamental even above “Pol” Fernández, since the 20-year-old boy from Isidro Casanova became the axis of his team without weighing down the commitment.
This forced Beccacece to “move the hornet’s nest” with the income of Gabriel Alanis through left-back Alexis Soto to have greater depth in that sector and Hugo Fernández through an insipid Francisco Pizzini, giving him better game prospects for Florencio Varela’s team.
But today the one who was “blessed” was his colleague Battaglia, who in that movement of pieces was immediately successful in making “his” correction, taking Eduardo Salvio out before half an hour of complement, who, unlike Villa, was never able to escape from the siege defensive rehearsed by the “Halcón” on the other side of the field, for Juan Ramírez to enter.
And less than five minutes after his entry, the former San Lorenzo received a precise clearance from the Paraguayan Óscar Romero, after a dozen precious touches in which Varela was the orchestra director, to transform from his lethal right cross in the first midfielder “xeneize” to convert a goal in this 2022.
A goal, his second in the blue and yellow jersey, which not only consolidated this team’s comeback after Battaglia walked the tightrope with crooked feet, but also fundamentally assured him a place in the semifinals of this Copa de la League.
A semifinal that will take place next Saturday at 6:30 p.m. on the Lanús pitch with the presence of both biases and a particular confrontation of styles between two teams whose coaches were also very different as footballers wearing the same Boca shirt.
Fernando Gago’s game was finer and dapper, as “his” Racing plays today, and Battaglia’s was more practical, as this Boca de Battaglia seems to insinuate, who today added the fourth consecutive win for the first time under his condition, and without receiving plus goals against.
Boca and Racing, Racing and Boca, a semifinal “to rent balconies” will be the one that this tournament will bring with a previous group stage of this Professional League Cup, which based on this can say that it was right with its format, although the next contest will be everyone against everyone.
Source: Ambito
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