Boca Juniors became this Wednesday the first finalist of the Argentina Cup when beating by 1 to 0 to Argentinos Juniors in the semifinal played in Mendoza, with a goal from Luis Vazquez, despite playing a bad game and being outmatched by the rival during several passages of the match.
Xeneize started the game with the intention of being the protagonist and tried to go ahead on the playing field to disturb the Bug, something that he achieved after four minutes when Luis Vazquez hit a powerful right hand from outside the area that went just high.
Then things were even and the party entered a plateau, with the team of Sebastián Battaglia showing many inaccuracies, until at 16 minutes Argentinos Juniors warned with a center from the right that Gabriel Carabajal connected, but his shot went very far from Agustín Rossi’s goal.
At 27 minutes, the team of Gabriel Milito. Carabajal took charge of a free kick 25 meters from the Xeneize arc, finished with power and his execution was barely deflected, while everyone claimed that goalkeeper Xeneize had reached it, but the referee signaled a goal kick.
In the last minutes of the first half, pushed by the deafening breath of his fans, Boca went to look for the game with more desire than football, and the inaccuracies did not allow him to make any of his attacks dangerous, without neglecting that the scheme with three midfielders he was exposed more than once to the opponent’s counterattacks, who handled the ball but was not fine in the last meters.
Thus, the Xeneize and the animal they went to halftime tied without goals and with the certainty that they had to adjust some details to improve the complement.
The complement continued to show errors by Boca and thus, after a bad start between Agustín Rossi and Carlos Zambrano, Gabriel Carabajal entered the area with a dominated ball and hit a crossed left-footed shot that crashed into the post after three minutes.
Boca reacted arriving at 10 ‘, when Cristian Pavón faced on the right and for the first time in the whole game disturbed the rival defense, putting a low center that Luis Vázquez failed to connect.
A minute later, the Xeneize was met with an almost undeserved prize. Sebastián Villa executed a free kick from the right, the ball crossed the entire area and the kid appeared at the far post Vazquez, who this time could get to the ball, after the deflection in a defender, to beat Federico Lanzilotta and make the Popular Norte explode, one hundred percent full.
Despite the advantage, Boca He continued to suffer in the middle of the field and Argentinos was about to take advantage of it after 15 minutes, when Nicolás Reniero was hand in hand with Rossi and before his departure he was bitten by the ball, but the goalkeeper was quick on his reflexes and managed to hand it to deny the draw to the Bug.
At 23 ‘, Reniero had the equalizer with a crossed left foot that went to the back of the net, but the goal was annulled by a previous position ahead. That action unleashed the fury of Gabriel Milito, who overreached his claims and on the next play Fernando Echenique sent him off in the middle of a heated discussion which was also joined by the players and the rest of the La Paternal coaching staff.
Arriving at half an hour before the complement, the cast of La Ribera went ahead on the court and the Peruvian Luis Advíncula warned with a left foot from outside the area that demanded Lanzilotta, who responded well by throwing himself on his left and clearing the ball to the corner.
The level of Xeneize did not rise during the last minutes and ended up suffering, but it celebrated the classification to the final of the Argentine Cup, where it waits for Godoy Cruz O Cordoba workshops.
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