Boca Juniors was outclassed like few times before a significantly lower rival in the individual hierarchy on this second date of the Professional League championship, because this did not have its correlate with the collective part, in which those led by Sebastián Battaglia were unconnected between lines.
To begin with, Boca was weak from the middle of the field backwards and better positioned from that place forward, but the double nine that Battaglia proposed with Nicolás Orsini and Darío Benedetto, leaving Sebastián Villa on the bench, was not fine when he stepped into the area local.
Surely the Boca coach thought more about the game with his team as dominator and not as dominated, since the latter, which was what happened, implied that Villa would have had to be the starter to go against the spaces than because of that offensive posture he was going to leave his rival.
But his colleague Sergio Rondina thought the same game as Battaglia for his team, and that’s why the people from Santiago came out to take over half the field with the double five made up by Enzo Kalinski and Jesús Soraire, supported by Alejandro Martínez on the right and all the football that the figure of the field, Francisco González Metilli, displayed on the left, who added nothing less than the winning goal to all his play.
Thus, the hosts became owners of the best dangerous actions during the first half, where Agustín Rossi always had to be more attentive than his colleague in front, the Chilean Christofer Toselli, because the ball always prowled his fence more than the local.
Only after 20 minutes of the second half, when his team was already losing 1-0 and Rossi had held off a penalty from Renzo López (as in the previous game here, where he saved one and converted another), that on the rebound Jesús Soraire scored but the referee Pablo Echavarría annulled at the request of the VAR for invasion of the scorer, Battaglia decided to put Villa.
And the most curious thing was that he made Luis Vázquez enter when there were barely two minutes left to complete the regular 90.
Orsini’s discomfort during the 65 minutes he was on the field and the low level that Benedetto has been observing for some time now also affected the orphanage of Boca’s offensive, and this was not only the fault of both players, but also of the coach.
But beyond the shared responsibilities, Boca recently got into Central Córdoba’s house towards the end, first with a low shot from Villa, then with two frontal headers from Marcos Rojo and Benedetto, and the clearest, in discount , by Vázquez, with a low left-footed shot against the left post, which went by inches against a Toselli as resigned as the black and white coach.
Then came the eight minutes of injury time, at the end of which the celebration of the local fans who filled the modern Santiago stadium was unleashed, attended by 10,000 “neutral” fans who vigorously encouraged the “xeneize” team.
Some of them even invaded the playing field at the end of the match to ask for shirts and photos from the Boca players. Meanwhile, the locals greeted their players from the stands.
It’s that since 1967, when they won 2-1 for the only time in history in those old National Championships that Central Córdoba did not beat Boca, and tonight they did it again after 55 years.
– Synthesis –
Central Córdoba (SE): Cristopher Toselli; Iván Ramírez, Fabio Pereyra, Matías Di Benedetto and Jonathan Bay; Alejandro Martínez, Jesús Soraire, Enzo Kalinski and Francisco González Metilli; Juan Cruz Kaprof and Renzo López. DT: Sergio Rondina.
Boca Juniors: Agustin Rossi; Marcelo Weigandt, Carlos Izquierdoz, Marcos Rojo and Frank Fabra; Guillermo Fernández, Alan Varela and Juan Ramírez; Nicolás Orsini, Darío Benedetto and Exequiel Zeballos. DT: Sebastian Battaglia.
Goal in the second half: 11m. González Metilli (C).
Changes in the second half: Starting Lucas Besozzi for Kaprof (C), 28m. Aaron Molinas for Ramirez (B), 21m. Sebastian Villa for Orsini (B), 26m. Deian Veron for Martinez (C), 43m. Jorge Figal for Weigandt (B) and Luis Vázquez for Varela (B), José Gómez for González Metilli (C) and Nahuel Banegas for Besozzi (C).
Admonished: González Metilli, Kalinski and Toselli (C).
Incidence: 17m. of the second period Rossi (B) contained a penalty kick from Renzo López (C).
Field: Single Stadium-Mother of Cities (Santiago del Estero).
Referee: Pablo Echavarria.
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Source: Ambito
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