Boca's Victory Against Nacional: Details and Highlights

2023-08-10 02:40:28

9/08/2023 2:40hs.

yes so many times Boca played for penalties if so many times he drank from them to achieve from the 12 steps what he had not achieved since the game, last night had all the flavor of a sentence. Fate, and Chiquito Romero, wanted justice to be done.

But the team Almirón should never have come to define that way a game that, from the conceptual point of view, from the arrivals of one and the other, was for a win, without suffering and without puffing.

if in the first time Boca He got too easy in front, and too easy he gave himself up to the tie, the second time he became the winner, at the beginning of the complement, did everything not to repeat the mistake, and to make clear a concrete, palpable superiority, as clear as summer nights.

The beginning of the Cavani Era could not be more promising. After a first appearance by Matador (a wall with Barco, a precise cross from Colo and a tight definition from the Uruguayan that he couldn’t take well), the goal came, from a cross from Advíncula and a deadly header from Merentiel.

The paradoxical thing was that, from there, the one that began to dominate was… Nacional. Zabala broke lines from the middle, and cracks and gaps appeared everywhere.

No coverage, no relays. With individual faults too (like Fabra), which crowned Trezza’s tie. Those uncouplings, that slowness of Red to close on the sideswas a rule and not an exception.

Nacional came out comfortable from the bottom, partly because Varela was positioned as the third center-back, and the hole in the center of the field was an invitation for Nacional to go through without opposition. Damiani had it after a frontal blow that Rojo could not solve; and then Zabala wasted a one-on-one in a counter-attack, after a corner kick in favor of Boca that took Almirón’s team off guard and praying. That’s how bad things looked for Boca.

A bit because Nacional did not finish taking advantage of the tactical advantages what’s going on with him Bocaanother bit because potentially the local attack promised more, the stage was left open for halftime Almirón corrected the design errors in his initial proposal.

Of that, Much had to do with Barco’s clarity and his ability to unbalance. From the Colo it is explained how Boca was able to straighten out the night: in the very start of the complement, he accelerated diagonally from the left to the center, traveled 25, 30 meters dragging everything in his path, opened to factorythe Colombian put the center to the point of the penalty, which Castro could not firmly refuse, and advíncula He received comfortable to put the second goal.

Onwards, Boca showed that he had learned his lesson. He had the fourth before the third and the fifth before the fourth, but he was tied to that goal difference that was nothing in relation to what Boca generated. Boat had it againafter a great collective play, and the same Cavaniwho missed the easiest goal of his life: Alone, centimeters from the bow, he threw it out.

It is seen that the nerves of the debut also weigh on the fuori class. But the show of waste continued: Advíncula almost scored his second goal after another play by Colorado, Medina hit the crossbar… Boca continued to miss goals until Zabala put together another playopened for Lozano, his cross into the area found a weak slap from Chiquito, who left the ball playable so that Ramírez silenced a Bombonera set for the win.

Boca He kept missing goals (Pipa, Weigandt), betting on winning it in the 90s, because he had plenty of personality to keep looking. If the lights fell on Cavanithe looks took them all Valentín Barco and his tireless will to go to the front.

Also Romero and his extraordinary instinct to save penalties and dress up as a hero every time you have to take potatoes out of the fire. The good news is that Boca has a game and cards to fight the Libertadores. Cavani can give him that much-needed touch of quality, but the team doesn’t need saviors. You need, yes, not suffer more.