River couldn’t do it at the Monumental

In a new edition of the Superclásico, at the Monumental Stadium, River Plate’s fans were there to brighten up with that unrivalled passion this encounter before the final of the Argentina Cup, one of the main objectives of the semester.

The visit was good during the first minutes and, after a one-to-one that Augusto Batalla blocked to Pavón, Bou received at the door of the area and defined with a cross for the 1-0. Then, River started to grow and, after a pair of attacks, scored the tie with a great goal volleyed by Sebastián Driussi.

A few minutes after that, Jorge Moreira kicked a perfect center for Lucas Alario to put his head and turn the game around. What is more, el Millonario could have scored the third one before the half time, with another shot from the forward that went high.

In the second half, River was ready to settle the match, but couldn’t materialize the clear situations it had in Alario and in Gonzalo Martínez (Werner blocked him a very clear one-to-one). Boca tied the match after a false start from Batalla, who had before been protagonist with an amazing save against Pavón.

Ten minutes before the end, the visitor got to the third goal through Tevez and during injury time, with River focused on the attack, Centurión scored the last goal of the match.
Now, el Millonario is going to play on Thursday the final of the Argentina Cup against Rosario Central, in Córdoba, and the next weekend it will compete against Olimpo, in Bahía Blanca, in its last match of the year.

SYNTHESIS
RIVER PLATE: Augusto Batalla; Jorge Moreira, Jonatan Maidana, Arturo Mina, Luis Olivera; Leonardo Ponzio (Captain), Ignacio Fernández; Andrés D’Alessandro, Gonzalo Martínez; Lucas Alario and Sebastián Driussi. Coach: Marcelo Gallardo.

Substitutes: Enrique Bologna, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Camilo Mayada, Joaquín Arzura, Iván Rossi, Tomás Andrade and Rodrigo Mora.

Substitutions: Rossi for D’Alessandro, Mora for Martínez, Andrade for Driussi.

BOCA JUNIORS: Axel Werner; Gino Peruzzi, Santiago Vergini, Juan Insaurralde, Frank Fabra; Pablo Pérez, Fernando Gago (Captain), Rodrigo Bentancur; Carlos Tevez; Cristian Pavón and Gustavo Bou. Coach: Guillermo Barros Schelotto.

Substitutes: Ramiro Martínez, Leonardo Jara, Fernando Tobio, Jonathan Silva, Sebastián Pérez, Wilmar Barrios and Ricardo Centurión.

Substitutions: Centurión for Bou, S. Pérez for P. Pérez, Jara for Pavón.

Goals: Driussi, Alario (RP); Bou, Tevez -2-, Centurión (BJ).

Booked: Driussi, Maidana, Mora, Alario (RP); Pérez, Gago (BJ).

Referee: Diego Abal.

Assistant referees: Ezequiel Brailovsky and Sergio Viola.

Fourth Official: Fernando Rapallini.

Additional Assistants: Héctor Paletta and Alejandro Castro.

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