A successful victory: Boca won, put pressure on and was well positioned

Mouth Everything was at stake in this match to maintain a chance of capturing the last of the four places available by Annual Table to access the Copa Libertadores 2024 and Godoy Cruz exposed that possibility that he had in his pocket before starting this last date of the qualifying phase. League Cup groups.

And as for this contest, the issue was clearer, because just as the Mendoza team arrived first and comfortable as classified by Group A, the Boca team did so without any chance of reaching the quarterfinals.

The night started and ended well for the visitors, who found themselves with a penalty in their favor at the beginning of the match that the Uruguayan scored very well. Miguel Merentiel and then he avoided any difficulties throughout that first half.

But the error also at the dawn of the complement complicated life again for the Auriazules when Norberto Figal He went against everything indicated in the football books and came out with a pass to the short half and announced, at the door of his own area, that it was easily intercepted by Hernán López Muñoz and then define with a low and cornered left foot, one of those that costs the goalkeeper so much Sergio Romero.

Again Mouth He then had to go up the hill, but it didn’t take him too long, just 10 minutes, when he himself Figal He claimed his mistake and ended up putting his team ahead again against a Godoy Cruz that from then on he never got into the game again.

Then the roads once again led towards a victory that was essential for Boca, because any other result would have left them with no chance of getting into next year’s Libertadores, with all that that would imply.

Of course, beyond the victory, nothing is said for the “xeneizes”, because if tomorrow they beat San Lorenzo to Central Córdoba and Estudiantes to Lanús, both as locals, then those Libertadores chances will once again become difficult for those temporarily directed by Mariano Herrón.

At the moment Godoy Cruz is fourth and entering next year’s Libertadores, while the Boquenses are in fifth position, but both can be overtaken by the aforementioned Estudiantes and San Lorenzo if these two add three points tomorrow, at the close of the season. last date of the group stage.

If this happens, even if Estudiantes later obtain the Argentine Cup beating Defensa y Justicia in the final and freeing up a place for the Libertadores, Boca will not be able to get back into the search for “the seventh”, and neither will Godoy Cruz, so both will be “condemned” to play in the South American .

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