Vázquez celebrates his goal with Medina, his assistant / Photo: Julián Álvarez.
Boca defeated Huracán 1-0 this Monday night, which sinks into relegation by the Annual Table, with a good performance by the local team and with a goal from Luis Vázquez, one of the figures in this match of the 24th. date of the Professional League in which the xeneise team with these three points climbed to the last place in the classification zone for the Copa Sudamericana 2024.
As in the novel by Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde, this Boca Jorge Almirón has two faces, one at home and the other as a visitor, in which he has never won since his arrival, tonight he showed his best version.
The same team -with only two changes-, which has been four days in Santa Fe against Unión he did not kick a shot on goal, this Monday he had moments of lucidity in his performance, helped by the difficult moment of this Hurricane in decline by Annual Table and he has not won for nine dates.
*100007 *The figures of the logical winner were their scorer, Vazquez, the youthful Valentín Barco and Cristian Medina, his assistant.
From the beginning of the match, the locals went out to stand in the opponent’s field.
Photo: Julian Alvarez.
This time Almirón proposed a 4-4-2 to solve the lack of wingers (the injured Luca Langoni, Exequiel Zeballos and Norberto Briasco are still absent, the most recovered who was among the substitutes and played the last minutes against his club) .
The coach put Miguel Merentiel as a winger on the right side of the attack, Vázquez as a winger and on the other side Barco as in recent games.
Huracán couldn’t find the ball in the midfielder – very sorry for the absence of the fractured Federico Fattori – and with the good work of Guillermo Pol Fernández, Medina and Varela, Boca dominated the game.
Photo: Julián Álvarez.
After 5 minutes, a great play by Barco by Izquierda left Vázquez alone, who defined Lucas Cháves’ body.
Diego Martinez’s men did not stand up against an opponent who, despite being superior, left gaps in defense that were not taken advantage of by his rival.
At 34 minutes another good action by Colo enabled Merentiel, who only against Cháves finished hard and very high.
At the end of the In the first half, in the clearest of that stage, after a corner, Frank Fabra led a counterattack and went alone for 20 meters while being pushed from behind by the Chilean Guillermo Soto, who was unable to prevent the Colombian defender from The ball crashed into the right post of the visiting goal, the rebound was picked up by the youthful Barco, who kicked off the crossbar with his left foot and spiked over the goal line.
It would have been an act of justice for the person who was better at this stage.
Photo: Julián Álvarez.
In the second half to the good game, the winner added efficiency in the net.
Until after 11 minutes, in a good intervention by Barco that enabled Medina, he with an exquisite pass He gave Vázquez the goal to score the just 1 to 0.
Afterwards, Boca adjusted the pace, but always with control of the game.
After 24 minutes, in a play outside context, after a cross from Santiago Hezze, the ball hit Marcelo Weigandt’s right arm, but referee Nicolás Ramírez determined that there was no intention.
Almirón began to take care of his energy and brought in Ezequiel Fernández, a midfielder, with a striker like Merentiel, and then brought out the most applauded: Vázquez, Barco and Medina.
Tonight the xeneize paid off a debt with his game, but now it will be seen if he can keep it when he plays next Sunday against Gimnasia from 4:30 p.m., in La Plata.
While Huracán will receive Talleres, from Córdoba, on Friday from 9:30 p.m., both for the date 25 of the Professional League.
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