“I knew what was playing me”

It was not easy. In his hands was the hottest ball. But Miguel Borja he took a few seconds to fix his gaze on the arch of Sergio Romero and take a breath There he defined where he was going to kick the penalty two minutes from the end of a Superclásico that was destined for a tie. The Colombian defined towards the left post of the Boca goalkeeper, who threw himself to the other side. And he unleashed the madness of the more than 80,000 souls that filled the Monument.

“Thank God for the victory. I knew what was playing for me, what I was involved in. I tried to take a deep breath, it was clear to me that I was going to define there,” Borja said, who after converting went to celebrate at a corner and he put on a shirt that said “Glory Belongs to God”.

Did you feel nervous before kicking? “It’s normal to feel a little pressure. I’ve kicked several times in difficult moments. I took a deep breath, which is what I always do and I was able to score for the glory of God,” answered the Hummingbird, who took a long time to realize all the mess that had gotten into provoked behind his back among his teammates and rivals. “I don’t know what happened because I was celebrating,” he explained.

And about the game, Borja commented: “They did not arrive in the first half and in the second they had few clear balls. We put them in their field and we are fair winners.”

Along the same lines, Emanuel Mammana analyzed: “We came from a tough defeat and we knew we were going to get ahead. It was noted that we were always looking for it and they went far behind. We showed that we wanted to win and we looked for it until the last moment”. And he added: “We always have faith that one of us is going to stay and that those at the top are going to score. We are going to go for everything that is at stake. There is a long way to go and we have to go game by game.”

For his part, Nicolás de la Cruz spoke about the feeling of winning a classic again: “It was a nice feeling of relief after so much time of work that we had been doing with this coaching staff. We trusted the character of this team. We had with what and we know how to support each other, that was the basis for achieving this result”.