Benedict’s bad night: the harangue in the gallery, the wrong scissors and the penalty at the stick that complicated Boca against Corinthians

Dario Benedetto He came out determined to be the protagonist of the cold night at the Bombonera. But the striker went from harangue with conviction in the exit tunnel to two errors that could be decisive in the rematch of the second round of Copa Libertadores between Boca and Corinthians.

In the Bombonera Benedetto sent a loud and clear message to his teammates as they descended the stairs towards the playing field: “I’ll tell you what, they treated us like losers there, so let’s show these motherfuckers we’re winners. Come on old man, come on!”he shouted, while the breath of the fans was deafening.

Later in the game, the striker returned this season with the aim of winning the seventh Copa Libertadores for the club was wrong the first time and he could have been responsible for untangling a procedure in which the Brazilian team prevailed from its defensive bolt.

Benedetto had his first chance around 18 ‘, in a quick counterattack that led Canguito Zeballos to overflow from the left and from the center to the spot, where the Tube wanted to define with half scissors, but hit her with the back of his foot and lifted the ball.

But the most important point came half an hour into the match, after the referee Andres Matonte went to the VAR to see the elbow of Raul Gustavo On William Pol Fernandezwhich led to the sanction of a net penalty.

As happened in the first leg but for Corinthians, Boca also failed to exploit a maximum penalty: Benedetto concentrated, choosing a strong and straight shot on the right post, which the tube returned violently. A bad night …