The boys from San Lorenzo taught Boca a lesson, which had a worrying task: a 2-1 that had everything

With a convincing task, backed by a group of youngsters from the house, San Lorenzo beat Boca 2-1, at the New Gasometer, for the seventh date of the Professional League. The performance of the xeneize team was disappointing, from start to finish. After being eliminated in the Copa Libertadores and various internal conflicts (one, framed by Rojo’s goal, celebrated with Izquierdoz, postponed, on the substitute bench), Boca offered a hybrid image. The experienced defender should have been sent off.

Mouth advances with closed eyes. With a 4-2-4 system, he is looking for a tie, but without ideas. San Lorenzo laments lost opportunities. A lot of tension, too much nervousness in the final stretch. With a lackluster task, the xeneize team believes in equality. With a compelling task, the Cyclone gets lost in the nerves, inside and out.

Rojo steps on Malcom Braida in the area, unnoticed by the judges, put into orbit by the VAR. The technology calls Espinoza, who after a couple of minutes, charges a penalty. It is not the first time that the experienced defender has made these kinds of mistakes. Penal. Bareiro points and shoots: the ball passes to the side of the post. Rossi throws himself to the other post.

Ibarra moves the bench of substitutes. Enter the fast striker and the classic number 9, looking to turn an awkward game around. San Lorenzo presses him, suffocates him. A free kick by Fernández Mercau goes close. The young azulgranas play the Clásico as if it were a final.

He seeks to get out of lethargy, but it is difficult for Boca to advance in the field. He rehearses a reaction, especially with Villa. A free kick by Romero is saved by Torrico, who sends the ball to the corner. The shot, before escaping, hits the crossbar. Benedetto, almost below the goal, wasted a clear situation.

Cerutti’s run and center through the left sector, he advances a few meters, raises his head and sends the center, which connects Bareiro, with a header. The action is reviewed in the VAR and confirmed. The reward, in fact, is for what was done in the first chapter.

Boca tries to get out of a permanent passive attitude, San Lorenzo tries to keep his fang sharp. Boca has interpreters of weight to transform history, San Lorenzo does not have too many variants of hierarchy in the bench of substitutes.

The first half is over, but the best version of San Lorenzo deserves a reward. A left-footed shot from Fernández Mercau, above, seals the 2-1. The VAR reviews the action, because in the construction of the play, Rosane inadvertently knocks down Varela. It’s iron, because the loot goes too much.

Fernando Espinoza takes four minutes to make the decision. The steering wheel, in the end, is reprimanded. And the match is still 1-1. Seconds later, the curtain falls on the first chapter. The fans of San Lorenzo, enveloped in anger, by the decision of the technology. San Lorenzo, with young people and without big names, is up to the challenge. Boca, with illustrious surnames, feels uncomfortable, excessively delayed.

Giay hits him with his soul and life and ties the match, after a rejection from Rossi, due to an impact from Elías. The xeneize goalkeeper is the best in the game, but he can’t cover all the gaps that the xeneize last line offers. The party, with tension, intensity and multiple attractions.

A bad start by Sebastián Torrico allowed Rojo to head in, after a free kick by Villa. The celebration was quite a symbol: he went straight to hug Izquierdoz, the captain, who is on the bench, in a decision that would have been due to a conflict with the Football Council. The controversy, in the previous action: Was there an infringement by Cerutti on Ramírez?

Oscar Romero and Juan Ramírez passed through San Lorenzo without much success. However, his departures generated short circuits, especially that of Ramírez, who immediately went to Boca. The Paraguayan lived in the shadow of his brother, Angel, in a controversial stage in the Cyclone. Above all, because he could never demonstrate his quality.

Jeremías James, 21, a defender from the San Lorenzo youth team, went to look for a high ball, against Sebastián Villa, fell badly and took his left knee. Through tears and with the conviction that he could be the victim of a serious injury, the defender left the field of play. Among the applause, he was replaced by Gastón Hernández.

As few times in the competition, San Lorenzo shows determination and ambition. Above all, by the right sector, supported by the inspirations of Cerutti. Barrios is active, with good determinations. Rossi took a long shot from the corner. Boca, wait and go with speed down the wings, mainly on Villa’s side.

The classic between San Lorenzo and Boca is already played. The xeneize moves in this first stage.

San Lorenzo and Boca are already in the field. They greet each other among the players, they do the same with the referees and it will be the time of the draw, in charge of the judge Fernando Espinoza. Almost everything ready for the start.

Waiting for the teams to return to play the match, San Lorenzo paid tribute to one of the stars of the Libertadores champion Ciclón: Juan Ignacio “Pichi” Mercier. He was handed a plaque at midfield to whomever he announced his retirement from professional soccer this Friday.

On the one hand, the starters and on the other, the substitutes, continue with the preheating work in the New Gasometer. Both teams work on the field of play awaiting the start of the game, at 3:30 p.m. Herrón, who was already in the coaching staff of Miguel Russo and Battaglia, is very active in giving instructions to those who will start from the first minute in Boca.

In San Lorenzo, which has not won for six games nor won at home in all of 2022, Rubén Insúa will bet on the experience of Sebastián Torrico in the Ciclón goal and Ezequiel Cerutti also returns to the starting lineup in attack. Thus, the venue will form with Torrico, Gattoni, Zapata, James, Giay, Elías, Rosane, Fernández Mercau, Cerutti, Bareiro and Barrios.

After the departure of Battaglia and a heated meeting between the referents and the Football Council, captain Carlos Izquierdoz will be on the Boca bench and will be replaced by Carlos Zambrano. Hugo Ibarra, along with his assistant Leandro Gracián and Mariano Herrón, the club’s employee DT, make up the trinomial that will be in charge of the interim and make the decision. The xeneize will go out with Rossi; Advíncula, Zambrano, Rojo, Fabra, Pol Fernández, Varela, Ramírez, Romero, Villa and Benedetto.

For the seventh date of the Professional League of Argentina, from 3:30 p.m. San Lorenzo receives Boca in a duel full of needs to decompress. The Cyclone has a win, four draws and a loss in the tournament and has seven points, two less than the Xeneize team, which has just fired DT Sebastián Battaglia after being eliminated on penalties in the Copa Libertadores.