What happens to Boca that always a conflict arises even if the team is doing well?

Argentine Cup Champion. Champion of the Professional League Cup. About to play the second round of the Copa Libertadores. The criticized level of play shows an improvement game by game and for longer periods in each match. And suddenly, out of nowhere, a bomb explodes. Another.

Behind the sanction of Sebastián Battaglia by Marcos Rojo and Darío Benedetto, excluding them from Wednesday’s match against Ferro in La Rioja, there are several stories and some questions.

The technician he marginalized the two heavyweights from the locker room because the week before he had punished Giordano Campuzano. The reasons were the same: the Colombian did not train before the match with Arsenal and was excluded from the concentrates. Rojo and Benedetto were absent from training on Sunday for those who would not have been part of the debut team against Sarandi.

It was a stroke of authority from the technician. He showed that the same law applies to everyone. The question is how the relationship between Battaglia and the two players who are going strong in the locker room will continue. The manager got the approval of the Football Council when he marginalized the three players. Riquelme supported Battaglia.

Long before the weekend deal, cases of alleged poisoning of Zambrano, Sebastiano Villa Y Edwin Cardona. then the almond crate. A quarrel between the player and Battaglia in the middle of a training session earned him exile. The TD’s decision was accepted by the campus with an unofficial spokesperson who said: “In addition to playing as a starter or substitute, we must always add. In this case it was not like that, Agustín never understood the shirt he was wearing “.

The one who had spoken was Benedict. Whoever had lectured on professionalism was committing the same sin he had criticized.

The separation of the two players has produced multiple reactions, especially in the networks. Boca is Boca, for better or for worse. And Almendra “liked” several texts that destroyed Benedict.

From now on, the spotlight will not only be on the green lawn of the Bombonera or where Boca plays, but also in the changing rooms and in everyday life. How does a squad of recent successes live with these scandals, what repercussions will they have on the team’s game?

These questions will be answered in time. What needs an accurate answer is why is it happening what is happening?

Although Battaglia has put his punch on the table, there is a leadership problem. None of the four members of the Football Council came out to give the club position. It is not a minor problem. It is the same municipality that licensed Villa when he was denounced by his former partner until justice was issued, it was said at the time. The license ended early and when Boca needed him, Villa returned to play in Russo’s team.

“What happens off the pitch is another matter”Riquelme said after the Professional League Cup semi-final against Racing when asked about the Villa case.

Battaglia shouted. Do the players listen? A side issue of that dubious leadership of the TD and questionable of the Council, appears the leadership among peers.

Rojo is a player with a great career, a World Cup player and commits a foul that his teammate Benedetto considered serious when the protagonist was Almendra. And Benedetto himself, recovered from European football largely to reconstruct the squad left by Russo, is discovered when the red light passes.

Will Rojo and Benedetto’s voices lose value? They influence everyday life but also the game because they are part of the core of the team. Boca is doing well in the competition. But he insists on shooting himself in the foot. How come?.