Boca won with a penalty from Benedetto, but ran out of air at high altitude and in the end Brey saved the point

The point knows little why National team of Potosi He will have the River shirt, but he is very far from the hierarchies Mouth, who didn’t take advantage of a penalty at the end of the first half. It is true that Leandro Brey has become an example for his steady hands in every center and three sensational coverages during a second phase in which wear and height were weighed. However, the team Diego Martinez missed a great opportunity to get started South American Cup with a victory against a weak opponent.

However, those boys who ended up playing as part of a rotation due to the complexity of traveling to the highlands took advantage. Particularly, Milton Delgado (18 years old), bold and confronting. They came in too Juan Zufriaurre (18) and Walter Molas (19), all absolute debutants. It happened in the second half, when the coach looked for freshness amidst the tiredness.

The penalty missed by Darío Benedetto In the initial phase, Boca did not allow Boca to justify the dominance they exercised for most of the match. The “9”, which had been fundamental in the previous play that had led to the violation Edisson Restrepo on Lucas Janson, finished strong and high, but the ball exploded off the crossbar. And all the discomfort took its toll on the attacker, who had shown a good level.

Boca didn’t feel the height in the first forty-five minutes. On board a 4-1-4-1 in which Maurizio Benitez He felt comfortable as the only central midfielder, Diego Martínez put together an elastic team, which tried to be deep on the flanks and had Benedetto as a very active center forward. Also to Norberto Briasco right now Jabes Saralagui taking off from midfield.

In this context, Boca generated enough situations to open the scoring. Briasco sends a poisonous cross from the right and Benedetto fails to head the ball at the start of the match. Later, Saralagui tries from medium distance and blocks Saidt Mustafá. The young man himself trembled from the outside and the ball went over the crossbar. There were also a couple of nice triangles on the left, including a climb by Marcelo Saracchi. The Argentine had 16 attempts, but only 3 shots on goal, obviously including a penalty.

Nacional de Potosí cedes the initiative to its illustrious rival and arrives quickly hitting the ball. Pragmatic, direct, he attacked less than Boca, but produced two situations that compromised Leandro Brey. The clearest was a long pass from Maximiliano Ortiz who scored with his head Miguel Prost and found a remarkable response from the young archer.

The Bolivians gain ground on the outside, especially behind Saracchi, where Facundo Callejo leaked several times, forcing Nicola Valentini leave it behind and go far away. In any case, the excesses of the Argentine who wears the Nacional shirt failed to be dangerous because Brey cut all the centers.

The match was fun for the dynamics and the back and forth, despite the geographical situation. And at the end of the first stage, when Boca was already starting to feel the wear and tear, there was a great combination between Juan Ramírez, Janson and Benedetto, who was face to face with Mustafá, blocks the goalkeeper and the Colombian Restrepo brings down Janson. The Bolivians claimed an earlier hand from Benítez that went unnoticed. El Pipa missed the penalty and the result was not changed.

In the second half, the Pampa Biaggio – His assistant Antonio Mur was on the bench – Gustavo Cristaldo sent onto the field. And the veteran Paraguayan complicated his mobility between the central defenders and even scared all of Boca with a mid-range shot that Brey blocked.

Then they caused concern with two free kicks and two headers saved by the goalkeeper, one from William Alvarez and another from Nicolás Valentini which almost ended in a goal.

In the end, Saracchi lost it. And it was 0-0 at 4,090 meters above sea level, but it proved to be little consolation for the difference in category and for that shot from twelve steps which could have been the winning goal.