2024-09-29 05:10:49
Boca lost again. For the third consecutive game. And Diego Martínez in the same locker room presented his resignation as technical director. Boca was once again prey to the same confusion that has been plaguing it in recent times. On and off the court. The team had no line, was stunned after the Cordobans’ first goal, depended on individual outbursts and could have even been thrashed.
After the game, the questioned Martínez went directly to the point: “Today there is not going to be the back and forth that we have to talk about football, I simply want to inform you that I presented my resignation. I spoke first with the people of the Council, then with the president and later with the footballers. We are not going to continue our role as a Coaching Staff,” said the former Boca coach, hit by the poor results in La Liga and the elimination in the Sudamericana.
It was so Bad first half of Boca that did not have a single shot against the Cordoban goal. The confusion that seems to have invaded coach Diego Martínez manifested itself again on the field. YesIt was surprising to see Merentiel starting as a right-hand midfieldertoo far from Cavani, the Belgrano area and the function it had been fulfilling. Merentiel walked on both sides (he changed positions with Zenón) without gravitating especially towards any of them. AND Cavani didn’t get a decent ball either. He was also perceived to be out of his best again. physical.
For that and because Medina He also did not perform playing behind the only forward because he chose to drop back (he was injured and was replaced by Zeballos), arriving was a pipe dream for Boca. Within a blocked procedure, Belgrano had some more situation. At least, he managed to have the game played closer to Brey than his own goal. Nothing exceptional, but Their pieces seemed to fit better than Boca’s.
Everything that had not happened until then happened in the second half. Goalkeeper Espínola took two goal balls from Zeballos and Cavani and Boca seemed to hint at a reaction. Until at 8 minutes, Figal took a ball to the corner with his right arm and referee Nazareno Arasa gave the penalty after consulting the VAR. Goalkeeper Brey saved Franco Jara’s shot but hit a long rebound. And Jara himself, with a short touch, opened the scoring and broke the game.
Martínez put Milton Giménez in place of the kid Delgado and decided to attack with four forwards and a double spearhead (Cavani and Giménez). But Belgrano took him ahead. And he scored the second goal at 23 with a right hand from Nicolás Fernández from outside the area after a short rejection by Figal. Boca was once again devoured by desperation, helplessness and lack of clear ideas. And the bank did not provide the solutions they demanded either. Belgrano could have scored it (in the same play, a shot by Jara hit a post and another by Compagnucci hit the crossbar) and it would have been an excess. The cycle was already finished long before.