Union should have won. And Boca should have lost but in the end they tied 0-0. The Santa Fe team made the greatest merits, had the best situations that were not so many and also, two minutes into the second half, he scored a valid goal that was annulled by the referee Andrés Merlos in complicity with Mauro Vigliano in the VAR: Machuca set up full-back Corvalán, who came into the box coming from behind and scored through goalkeeper Sergio Romero’s legs.
But first Merlos and then Vigliano’s VAR review saw Corvalán offside, and proceeded to disallow the goal despite the fact that From the manual drawing of the lines and from the different images, no certainty emerged that this was actually the case.
Outside of that mistake that conditioned the result of the match and its subsequent development, The Boca thing was disappointing again. A single piece of information will help to understand their performance: throughout the night, Moyano, the Unión goalkeeper, did not save a single shot on goal.
The only more or less risky situation was a pass from Merentiel to Weigandt, 23 minutes into the first half, which the winger ended up taking ahead when he was about to finish off the Santa Fe goal. Before and after, nothingness itself.
Even after the expulsion of Rolón, at 29 minutes of the complement for a very hard tackle on the side Vera, Boca put together a line of five in the background, gave up his few claims to attack and dedicated himself without embarrassment to taking care of the point.
The new experiment by coach Jorge Almirón of placing Ramirez behind of Merentiel It didn’t work out, and it lasted just 52 minutes without the midfielder and striker connecting once. The Fabra and Barco tandem on the left has not been working either. They overlap, they do not complement each other.
In the first half, Boca had the ball, he moved it from here to there, but in truth it was a sterile and inefficient possession. It didn’t help. In the second, not even that. The changes did not change anything (Rolón spent 22 minutes on the field) and Almirón was hoarse from the bench without getting his team to play a single minute well.
The only positive thing for Boca was that they did not lose in Santa Fe. Regarding their future (In a month he has the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores ahead of him) the tie left him nothing. Only doubts and shadows for what is coming.