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El final del año es el momento perfecto para hacer balances. En el caso de Boca Juniors, cuando sus hinchas se sienten a la mesa este 31 de diciembre y miren hacia atrás, una de las pocas cosas que podrán ver de forma positiva es que el 2024 finalmente terminó y esperar el 2025 con más esperanza.
Last year the Xeneize team was affected through sporting sins and disappointments, with some matches to record and return outstanding, but with the overall balance that it made both for the game point and for the effects obtained.
The beginning of 2024 was marked by the fresh end of CONMEBOL. The Libertadores lost the mandate of Jorge Almirón and Diego Martínez’s team to qualify the team, in an atypical year, which had no competition in the top tournament of the continent’s clubs. Formation
El mercado de pases fue austero pero efectivo, con las incorporaciones de Kevin Zenón, Lautaro Blanco y Cristian Lema, siendo los dos primeros muy importantes en ese primer semestre, sobre todo Zenón, formando una gran sociedad con Cristian Medina y Ezequiel Fernández en el mediocampo.
The peak of performance of the first part and of the general year for of his double. Uruguay, Edinson Cavani and Miguel Merential.
But at some point, there is a blow that goes hand in hand with what the Martínez cycle is doing. In the semifinals of the same League Cup against the schoolchildren of La Plata, Boca did well, but a penalty by Cristian Lema that ended up expelled and caused the Pincha to equalize, replaced everything and the team despised in the penalties.
This loss of a corporate against Fortaleza in La Bombonera for the CONMEBOL Sudamericana, which ended very expensive in the definition of the group, a relief from the businessman face at the beginning of the second half.
The arrival of the second year cannot be made for Xeneize. Without great figures -Zenón, Equi and Medina- in the Olympic Games, Boca won the South American playoffs against Independiente del Valle with a very depleted and powerless team. To use refugees – Gary Medel, Milton Gimenez, Brian Aguirre and Tomas Belmonte submitted the adjustments to the list too late.
In Ecuador’s last advance, the next phase marked the pain in Brazil against Cruzeiro, in a match that played the epic playing with less than 10 seconds of play through a red card to Luis. Advíncula, but the penalties, alias in the past of Xeneize, they played another trick, with Merentiel as the unexpected villain, taking the key penalty.
The foreign elimination is the same in the team, which did not have Fernández’s team, who has already entered the Arab football club, and with several mid-range players – Belmonte, Ignacio Miramón and Agustín Martegani – who may never be replaced.
However, it was imaginable to raise its head and on the local stage it suffered various miscalculations. First against Racing in Avellaneda, then against a River team in La Bombonera, with an explosion in the final included in an episode in which Sergio Romero added anything that insulted the team at the start, which earned him an Array sanction from the club to the bow and a spinning bicycle with the head.
A new position against Belgrano de Córdoba marked the departure of Diego Martínez, who since the last time before the schoolchildren in this same province, repositioned his form of direction, hence the protagonist shown in the first month of 2024 and opted for a more speculative position, regarding the investigation of rivals.
Así, Martínez dejó el club tras nueve meses y 45 partidos, donde acumuló 20 triunfos, 15 empates y 10 derrotas, sin títulos y con un ciclo claramente que fue de mayor a menor, teniendo como mayor deuda el rendimiento como visitante.
Juan Román Riquelme was appointed through a former player of the club to entrust the “Pintita”, but the effects took time to arrive. His first trio won in the fifth game, adding a trio of consequences against Gimnasia LP in the Copa Argentina, with an episode that also sounded in the memory, with Román in the middle of the stands stopping the incidents between both fans and the policemen who were escalating at a damaging pace.
A partir de allí pudo enderezar un poco el rumbo, pero sufrió una nueva decepción al caer en las semifinales de la Copa Argentina ante Vélez, con un derrota por 4-3, en un partido que tuvo de todo y terminó con un golpe durísimo.
A smart statistic in the La Liga Tournament, with five wins in the last 7 games, has allowed them to meet the qualification objective in the last stages of the CONMEBOL Libertadores 2025, where they will play the second phase against the winner of the duel. between Nacional de Paraguay and Alianza Lima de Pérou. If you advance to the 3rd phase, you will face the others with Deportes Iquique of Chile or Independiente Santa Fe of Colombia.
Tomorrow in 2025, Boca has been a refuge, with the incorporation of Carlos Palacios from Colo Colo and having greater effects on its canons. The last market may come for Milton Giménez, one of the top scorers of the semester for Boca, with 7 goals. in 25 games, plus some of Brian Aguirre’s stars on the wing.
El año del Xeneize se puede definir como irregular, cuanto menos. Disputó 58 partidos, de los cuales ganó 26, empató 19 y perdió 13. Marcó 77 goles y sufrió 53.
Sus goleadores fueron los uruguayos Edinson Cavani, con 20 tantos y Miguel Merentiel con 17 goles.
Su rendimiento como visitante fue catastrófico durante casi todo el año. Ganó apenas 6 partidos de 26, con 11 derrotas y 9 empates, con una racha de cinco meses sin poder ganar fuera de casa.
He marked local semifinals -Copa de los Angeles League and Copa Argentina-, transitory elimination in the CONMEBOL Sudamericana, in 8 finals and just over six times in the Los Angeles League Tournament, which he could never fight. It was the beginning of 2016 when the club finished without a title.
All of Boca Juniors hopes to be able to achieve the 2024 goal and win their cup this December 31 to aspire to 2025, which with the bar quite low, can be much better.