Boca Juniors suffered a tough defeat against Independiente in Avellaneda and could not take advantage of the clean and jerk to begin to secure a place in the next Copa Libertadores. The only goal of the match was scored Carlos Benavídez at 20 minutes the first half after a great header. El Rojo is established in the South American Cup area and is excited about being able to reach one of the places that offers a ticket to the most important event on the continent.
He was so nervous that he had Sebastián Battaglia’s team, that ended with ten men for the expulsion of Carlos Izquierdoz after elbowing Alan Velazco when complement averaging. The youth of the Rojo threw a ball away that the captain xeneize went to look for, who had an impulsive act and thus suffered the eighth expulsion of his career.
It is worth mentioning that the referee Pablo Echavarría had reprimanded him and after all the Independiente footballers reproached him, he went back and showed Izquierdoz the red card. Surely, the judge, who did not have a good job and at times the game got out of hand, confused the card and corrected it in time.
Boca Juniors played this classic with seven modifications with respect to the eleven that came from beating Sarmiento de Junín in the Bombonera last Saturday. Despite this, the Xeneize had a great first half, but was not fine in the final stitch. In addition, Battaglia appealed to the changes, sent five of the seven that he had taken out for this duel (Cardona, Vázquez, Villa, Fabra and Ramírez), but it did not reach him.
The first two modifications were at 16 minutes when he arranged the exits of Agustín Almendra and Cristian Pavon. just Kichán was one of the protagonists when reacting with fury in the bank of the alternates. The forward, after greeting the coach, hit the ceiling several times relay sector and then flipped a couple of bottles to the playing field. One of them even had to be picked up by his partner Fabra, while the last one ended up splashing Carlos Zambrano.
A Peruvian man, who was by his side, He asked him to calm down and before the response of the Cordovan, he stood up and there was a discussion that did not pass to adults due to the rapid intervention of his companions and the goalkeeper coach, Fernando Gayoso. In the images that were captured by the cameras of ESPN it could also be seen that Zambrano and Pavón they continued arguing from a distance, although they closed it with a handshake.
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