Boca achieves its first victory with a goal from another league

A pass here, a pass there… There are 22 consecutive touches, made with a possession of 81 seconds… It is the path taken until the scoring touch of Santiago Ascacibar. It is a rarity to celebrate in this Argentine football of exaggerated muscle and tension. The midfielder who defined apologizes by joining his two hands and raising them. And he is only accepted because he is scoring a goal for the team he was born into.

The Russian Ascacibar closed that game that led to the victory cry of Mouth in Patricios Park. It was 1-0 against the always tough Students. And it represented more than too much for the xeneizes. The thing is that he had not yet won in this Clausura Tournament that is beginning to beat. It had been beaten by Deportivo Riestra, with a scandalous 0-3. And then it had ended in a 2-2 draw against the modest Newell’s in Rosario.

The Vasco Arruabarrena team needed to put a smile on the league. And he did it, what a paradox, in the game that was supposed to be the most complicated. Nothing was coincidence. Boca left a very good impression.

The coach’s hand was noticeable. He put together a midfield that compensated for the class of Leandro Paredes with the dynamics and intensity of Ascacibar and Milton Delgado. Then, he bet on the freshness of the youth players Leonel Flores and Tomás Aranda, with Miguel Merentiel as center forward. Thus he relegated the last big signing to the substitute bench, the returned Sebastián Villa, who came on to play the final half hour and failed to fly.

Boca’s goal came at an ultra opportune moment, 46 minutes into the first half. A blow from which Estudiantes could never recover despite the changes. And if that happened, it is because the Arruabarrena team always maintained control of the game, to such an extent that the DJs did not generate any clear chances in the second stage.

In that search to define a team and its identity, while still waiting for a couple of reinforcements, it will be necessary to see if this healthy production was the first big step of the new Boca, or if it was an exception.