Hugo Ibarra took a weight off his shoulders. After the two finals lost to Racing, a setback against Patronato in the Super Cup final could have ignited another source of controversy about his continuity in Boca. However, the comfortable 3-0 score achieved in Santiago del Estero and a much higher level of play than he had been displaying combined to make the coach exultant after the second title he won as Boca coach.
“We still need to reach our ceiling, but this is the way. I thank the players and congratulate them on this new achievement,” said Ibarra at the press conference he offered at the Madre de Ciudades stadium. “It is what we have been looking for, little by little to achieve the path, the game, and that confidence that I always spoke about. I think all that happened in this game, where we were clearly superior to a team that opposed us,” he analyzed. the exlateral.
“The greatest virtue was that we didn’t lose our cool, the ball didn’t want to go in but we were able to score the first goal and there the game was different, we made the difference,” explained Ibarra, who had celebrated the Professional League last November. “We prepare to play each game practically as a final, when we put on the Boca shirt we represent a very large institution, which we love very much, so each game has to be a final for us,” said “Negro”.
Regarding the good moment of his strikers (Benedetto, author of three goals, plus Luca Langoni, the Colombian Sebastián Villa and the Uruguayan Miguel Merentiel), the coach said that the competition for a place in the starting team is positive. “The fundamental and beautiful thing for me is that I have that drawback that everyone wants to be, they are at a very good level, each one going up, when the time comes I will define by the best,” explained the coach.
Benedict’s happiness
Another who was happy about his reappearance and his enormous performance was Darío Benedetto, who as soon as he entered the locker room after the game hugged Juan Román Riquelme, Boca’s second vice president and head of the soccer area.
“The figure of the match was the team, we are the biggest, we are the only ones,” said Benedetto, who also admitted that he was surveyed by Internacional de Porto Alegre but clarified that he will continue in Boca, where he reached 100 games in his two stages. in the club.
Boca returned from Santiago del Estero at dawn on Thursday and will have the rest of the day off to resume training on Friday. Boca’s next commitment, corresponding to the sixth date of the Professional League, will be next Monday at La Bombonera against Defense and Justice from 9:00 p.m.
