Less than 72 hours after what happened in La Plata, the ball rolled again in the Bombonera and football continued as if nothing had happened… Or at most, resignified by the desperate images of the Forest on the side of the fans of other clubs and the thought of what they would do in such a situation. The memory of Lolo Regueiro, fatal victim of police repression on Thursday night, was a minute of silence. Of course, there was none of that in La Boca, but rather a feeling “borombombóm, borombombóm, the one that doesn’t jump is a button”, capable of making the skin crawl.
Boca began the meeting with a dominating vocation, attentive to the fact that he had the last of the championship in front of him. With Romero playing more as a liaison than as a left winger – a function that he had fulfilled to the letter last Sunday against Vélez-, there was a free field for Fabra’s climbs. The intention to attack with the Colombian was revealed with the initial kick, which went to the left-hander while he was still making the sign of the cross, a sign of the cross that continued even with the ball at his feet.
Romero’s quasi-hooking version also allowed Langoni to move across the attacking front instead of stalling on one flank. Thus, the first minutes of Boca were good and some applause was even heard for the touch.
But it was when Aldosivi made his first contacts with the ball that Boca was able to hurt. At 11 minutes Payero believed more than anyone in the rival error, he went to press almost in a personal crusade and put the Paraguayan López to sleep. When defining, Devecchi made things a bit easier for him by waiting for him at the door of the area, but on the outside, where gloves are worthless. The 1 to 0 harshly punished the audacity of the Shark, as if it were a local trap with possession as bait.
The thing started as if to be defined early but to everyone’s surprise Aldosivi quickly made the 1-1. At 15 minutes, Cerro took a center from the right -where Romero was not- and central defender Valentini headed over Rossi to score a real hit on your CV. The surprise thing is not exaggerated: between the fact that the public was still delirious to recover the top of the tournament, that the ball entered very slowly and that Valentini did not celebrate the tie (his pass from him belongs to Boca), it was difficult to notice the goal from Mar del Plata.
What followed was a very weak version of Boca, with passages of balls in the face between their own teammates. A bad moment corroborated by the murmurs and the requests for “eggs” from the fans. The only answer to the question of how to hurt was to throw centers at Benedetto, which made one think that the nine xeneize should have been Silva. It is that in addition to his physical prowess, the Uruguayan was a constant annoyance for his rivals, fighting and winning from above, and even running as if he were ten (or more) years younger.
Boca’s questions were again answered by Aldosivi about the first-half discount. This time the one who pressed was Langoni, who took advantage of an unprecedented blooper between Devecchi and López and ended up giving it to Benedetto to score the easiest goal of his career.
The second part between the leader of the League and the last one was played the other way around, with the bottom team attacking and the leader waiting against. As if for Rossi to end up taking the usual applause from him and Boca de Ibarra ratify once again that feeling that, whatever happens, it is inevitable. It doesn’t matter how or against whom you play. He has gone 14 games undefeated and 11 wins in that period: all -yes, all- by one goal difference. They are worth three equal points.
