(EFE) – Boca Juniors has triumphed again. With a goal from Felipe Jonatan, Santos lost 1-0 to Brazil in the quarterfinals of Group C of the Copa Libertadores and secured second place for the Argentine club, which found the same result against BarcelonaArray in Ecuador. Training
El solitario gol del lateral al final del primer tiempo le permitió al club brasileño llegar a 6 puntos, los mismos que Boca pero con mejor diferencia de goles, y ser segundo del grupo tras el Barcelona ecuatoriano, que lidera con 9 pese a su derrota de este martes frente al The Strongest boliviano, colista con 3 unidades.
The victory at home, in the fort of Vila Belmiro, in the town of Santos, revived a team victim of the despair of the Libertadores but that will have a tendency to play away from home, in Ecuador and Bolivia, the two games that remain .
Coach Fernando Diniz made his debut with Victoria as coach of Santos, instead of the Argentine Ariel Holan, but was expelled due to the complaint for refereeing errors.
Miguel Ángel Russo, expelled with Diniz for his protests against the referee, accumulated 3 consecutive defeats as Boca coach for the first time in several months.
The first opportunity was for Angelo, the 16-year-old Santos striker, covered as a starter in the position of the aggrieved player Marinho, who worked at the moment he addressed goalkeeper Agustín Rossi.
But in the 6th minute, the thrower Carlos Tevez also had a clear opportunity to take a ball from Pavón in the domain when he was alone in front of the goalkeeper, but he threw it over the top.
Santos dio gran libertad al ataque argentino, especialmente en la lateral izquierda, defendida por Felipe Jonatan, al tiempo que intentó forzar su ofensiva por el mismo lado en un intento de aprovechar los sucesivos errores de Julio Buffarini.
The home team relied on Angelo’s individual players, but had a very well-articulated defense, because his attacks could only cause damage.
But in the minute, Felipe Jonatan opened the scoring for Santos, in a collective play that went to the outside, receiving a shot from the right, with the hit of the two markers and pushing the ball on a rope unreachable for Rossi.
En el segundo tiempo, el local presionó para aumentar el marcador y reclamó un penal no marcado por el árbitro cuando Izquierdoz tocó el balón con el brazo dentro del área.
The Brazilian team’s streak of attacks was interrupted by Tévez’s attempt to surprise João Paulo with a free-angle goal from the baseline.
Con la ventaja parcial, Santos volvió al segundo tiempo con un fútbol más bonito y eficaz, con un Lucas Braga endemoniando a Buffarini y asustando seguidamente a Boca.
But the Santos players will begin to think about the capacity accumulated between the 4 games played in those days and will need to update Angelo with a defender, which has lost strength to attack, as well as Felipe Jonatan, the only one. man.
Pese a que dominó el partido en el segundo tiempo tras haber sufrido el dominio de Boca en el primero, en la última parte el Santos prefirió administrar el marcador y comenzó a trocar pases en el centro de la cancha.
Xeneize pressed in the final minutes with the aim of basically taking over Pavón – who collected it with a hand on the crossbar – but Santos resisted and fought for the victory.