The Deportivo Pereira coach launched a prediction that reminded the Saudi Arabian coach: “Boca will be the champions of the Copa Libertadores”

After Deportivo Pereira beat Boca Juniors this Wednesday in Colombia for Group F of the group stage of the Libertadores Cupthe technical director Alejandro Restrepo has predicted that Xeneize will win the continental competition.

The statements immediately brought to mind those of Herve Renardthe French coach of Saudi Arabia who beat the Argentina national team in the first round of the Qatar World Cup and who later predicted that the group led by Lionel Scaloni champion would be proclaimed, which he eventually did.

“They are the current champions of the Copa América, with good players, but this is football, sometimes it is. They will get through the group stage and become world champions“, Renard had anticipated after the victory against Albiceleste, on November 22 last year at the Lusail stadium.

With almost the same words, Restrepo expressed this Wednesday evening in a press conference: “Boca are the current champions of Argentine football and have good players, but this is football and sometimes it happens like this time, when they lose a match like this But Boca will go through this group stage first and then be champions of America“.

Instead, he explained the keys to the Colombian club’s victory: “There are so many details in the match that we try to plan. We worked on it during the week. There were specific details such as the recovery phase trying to make sure that (Alan) Varela doesn’t affect the game too much because he is the footballer with the better foot. When we managed to get him out of the way of being influential, we did well.”

“Also we tried Villa was not one on onebut that he had a double vote, because he is capable of taking men off and has a good punch,” he concluded.

With this result, Boca and Pereira led Group F with seven points. Colo-Colo appears further down with five points, while Monagas is last with just two points.

In the final phase of the group stage, Jorge Almirón’s team will face the next two matches at La Bombonera: Tuesday 6 June against the Chilean institution and Thursday 29 June against the Venezuelan team.