Boca’s irregularity is very noticeable. In the local championship, he has as many wins as losses, a goal difference of +3, and he is one of those who lost the most games. In the Copa Libertadores, on the other hand, without playing well at all, he is one of those who scored the most points.
Boca is so irregular that its players, in the term of a week, go from the dispensable category to that of fundamentals in the consideration of a certain television panelism, weather vane and berreta. For them, Barco is a drifting canoe one day and days later an ocean liner that proudly sails the seas of the world.
And Jorge Almirón can be an extraordinary strategist today and tomorrow a shooter who aims at the pigeon, and sometimes hits. For many of the analysts of the planet Boca, the person responsible for all the ills is Riquelme; others take the opportunity to hit the government for elevation, because the economic situation does not allow quality hiring. And there are coincidences, yes, that with this squad they don’t have many chances of going far in this year’s tournaments, that is, the League, the League Cup, the Libertadores and the Argentine Cup.
And while the fans await the recovery of the injured and some important reinforcement, the team sails through the middle of the current championship table, 19 points behind River, which is the leader, and 14 behind the sunken Arsenal.
In the first half of the game with Sarmiento, Boca had the ball almost all the time but very rarely did his advances give the impression that they could cause any concern in the crowded rival defense. The clearest play on goal was made by Sarmiento, at the start of the game, when Melano, after a ball lost by Figal, hit a corner shot that Romero barely saved.
On the other side, only a cue in the area, and a weak shot from the croissant were Boca’s most dangerous appearances. Very little by the way.
In the second half, Boca continued to attack stubbornly and their insistence was rewarded in two counterattack plays, in which they found the visiting defense in a bad position: Merentiel made it 1-0, after a cross from Romero who had replaced Rolón, and the second for Medina (two goals in 104 games) with an empty bow, after a touch from Vázquez who had replaced Merentiel. In the final balance it was fair.
2 MOUTH
S. Romero
Weigandt
Valdez
Figal
fabra
shifty
Varela
G. Fernandez
Medina
Ship
Merentiel
DT: Almirón.
0 BRANCH
Devecchi
bettini
M Garcia
insaurralde
sbuttoni
G. Diaz
Rosso
E. Mendez
S. Quiroga
Melano
Gondou.
DT: Damonte.
Stadium: Mouth. Referee: Silvio Trucco.
Goals: 71m Merentiel (B); 84m Medina (B).
Changes: 46m W. Romero by Rolón (B), 63m J. Hernández by M. García (S), 76m Mainero by Sbuttoni, Monaco by Quiroga, Toledo by Melano and Kaprof by Rosso (S), 77m Valentini by Barco and Vázquez by Merentiel (B) , 85m Anselmino by Weigandt (B).