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Boca Juniors shook off the football inexpressiveness that invades it in the Professional League and dressed as a cupbearer to stay this Thursday at La Bombonera with first place in Group F of the Libertadores by thrashing 4-0 against Monagas, from Venezuela, at the end of the zone phase.
In this way, Boca finished at the head of his zone with 13 points, escorted by Deportivo Pereira, from Colombia, who finished with 8 and will also play the round of 16, while Colo Colo, from Chile, third with 6, will settle with a second from the Sudamericana the pass to the round of 16 of that competition, while Monagas, with 5, was eliminated.
The The winner’s goals were scored by Marcelo Weigandt, ValentÍn Barco and two goals by Luis Vázquez.
Bruno Valdez was sent off for a double yellow and Abdiel Arroyo in the Venezuelan team.
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In this way, Boca recovered from the poor image it had given a week ago in the local competition against Godoy Cruz, when it lost by the same score, 4-0, in Mendoza.
Los The highest points were Cristian Medina and Colo Barco, both cheered by the fans when they were replaced.
Beyond the fact that the modest rival is not measured thinking about what is coming in the Cup, the victory adds up to a team that was in need of this type of victory.
In the first half, beyond the fact that at times there was parity in the actions, the locals, without playing well, had the best chances.
*100018 * Coach Jorge Almirón, in the absence of wingers, due to Ezequiel Zeballos, Luca Langoni and Norberto Briasco being injured, put Guillermo Pol Fernández on the right and Barco on the left.
Opposite the Venezuelan team they put together a line of five defenders, where in a strange way their striker Arroyo positioned himself as a marker on the left wing.
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Boca had Cristian Medina again as their clearest player in the middle.
* 100025* The Argentine champion was more and after 2 minutes, in a defensive error by Christopher Rodriguez, Martín Payero took advantage and his header was rejected one meter from the goal by Rubén Ramírez.
The other one was at 25 minutes when a corner kick taken by Pol Fernández was headed by Weigandt, attacking well and with errors on the mark, and the ball bounced off the crossbar.
Monagas had his main arrival in a crossed cross at minute 33 that did not could be connected by Fernando Basante.
Three minutes later Bruno Valdez, who had been reprimanded, hit Edgar Carrión hard and when the referee charged the offense, he protested to the Uruguayan Andres Matonte and he sent him off for a double reprimand .
The cameras at that moment focus on Juan Román Riquelme who was shaking his head as a sign of annoyance at the innocent protest of the Paraguayan defender who left his team with one less player.
However the expulsion intoned the locals. After 39 minutes, they took the lead through Chelo Weigandt, who connected a crossed shot by Payero only in the six-yard box.
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This is the defender’s second goal in the This year’s Cup (the previous one had been in the previous victory at home against Colo Colo by 1-0).
In the second half, after 6 minutes, Arroyo returned the kindnesses to Valdez and became being sent off in a childish way for a double yellow card and also left his team with one less man.
From then on Monagas lowered his arms and Boca was the clear dominator of the actions.
The coup The final was given at 19 minutes by the youthful Barco, who in good combination with Frank Fabra put the logical 2 to 0.
Tonight the offensive winger hung from the fence to celebrate with his fans his first goal in first division and was logically admonished
And at the end Vázquez, who entered for Miguel Merentiel, was reunited twice with the goal and completed the work.
Now the future path of Boca in the month July will be the six dates left to play in the Professional League, where they will try to climb positions to be able to get closer to qualifying positions for next year’s Cups. In August he will continue with the Libertadores
The next match for the LPF will be next Sunday, at home against Sarmiento, from Junín, from 9:30 p.m., for the 22nd date.
