With Advíncula lost in a change of system: this is how we saw Boca in the embarrassing defeat against River

Penalty in the last minutes. Goal. Wild celebrations. Hits, pushes, threats, jerks and six expulsions. The Argentine superclassic had everything about the end, moments after River Plate, via Colombian Miguel Borjaput the 1-0 against Boca Juniors that would be tattooed on the final result. And she also had a Luis Advinculathe Peruvian representative in this high-calibre match, as one of the worst on the field.

The striking thing about the eventful encounter with an embarrassing end had Lucho as the protagonist. The coach Jorge Almirón decided to change his position again. Despite the fact that he had performed very well as a winger (goal and assist in his only two games in that position with the blue and yellow shirt), however, it did not work.

“Almirón is upset with Advíncula. There are two times that he gave him instructions and the Peruvian did not comply ”, said the journalist Diego Monroig, who was at field level reporting for the ESPN network. Luis never settled on the playing field, he did not find his space. He fell somewhere between being a winger (his natural position of his) and being a winger (the innovation that earned him praise).

Boca’s defense didn’t help either. If it weren’t for the great figure of Sergio Romero under the three sticks, the game could have ended with a more bulky result. The three centrals that Almirón stopped (Roncaglia-Figal-Valentini) They almost always played far apart and left space for the attacks of Nacho Fernández and Nicolás de la Cruz. On the left, the other winger, was Valentine Boatthe 18-year-old Xeneize jewel who debuted in a superclassic and paid for the floor: he was the worst on his team, a couple of steps ahead of Advíncula.

River’s plays during the first half, in which he was vastly superior, began on the right. Around the area Valentini-Ship. But they culminated on the other side, as the manual says. And there Luis made many mistakes: he never managed to close that space.

In the second half, Boca improved. The midfield made up of Alan Varela, Pol Fernandez and Medina they prevailed and began to win the divided ones. They settled better on the pitch and River lost surprise in their attacks. Above, sebastian villa He stopped being an ineffective second striker to play on the wings, his place on the field. And there, close to the line, with spaces, he was one of the most dangerous although, as is his custom, he never finished a play well. Luis Vasquez, in the previous one, it had to be the 9 that endures everything but did not win a single ball. It was one less for his team.

The balance says that Boca Juniors it is still the shadow of a team. Without game ideas, without attitude and with players like Luis Advíncula for whom the change of position cost them. The Peruvian, Colo Barco and Villa himself in the first half when he received with his back to the goal. What happened in the final minutes was the icing on the cake in a dark evening for the Xeneizes.

More fight, less game

When the stopwatch marked 20 minutes of play in the second half, on the pitch Luis Advincula lost a ball that ended in a shot from Pablo Solari crashed on the stick Sergio Romero. The play described the game of a Peruvian who had a hard time with the ball at his feet. In 90′, plus the additions and not counting the minutes lost due to the brawl, Lucho barely took a cross. It was the first and only time he had won the bottom line.

The Peruvian rounded off his bitter day in the attempt to fight.

The game stopped and when the referee resumed it, he sent off Merentiel, Ezequiel Fernández and Nicolás Valentini in Boca, while in River he sent off Centurión, Palavecino and Gómez; these last two were on the substitute bench.

Advíncula only won five of the 15 duels he had and lost 19 balls, according to the website specialized in statistics SofaScore. But he was one of those who warmed up the most at the time of the fight. He argued more than he played.