Darío Benedetto fails to get out of the cursed spell and misses another penalty for Boca against Talleres

Darío Benedetto cannot escape the cursed spell that trapped him. It is that on the 9th of Boca he missed another penalty this Saturday. The duel between Boca and Talleres de Córdoba had just begun, for the 8th date of the Professional League, when the Tube He had the opportunity to take revenge for the two missed penalties against Corinthians – one in regulation time and the other in definition-. But he couldn’t.

Despite having decided to take charge of the execution after the rough hand of Colombian Rafael Pérez, until a few weeks ago the team’s maximum reference was once again avoiding the goal. His shot goes without stopping on the crossbar of the goal defended by Guido Herrera and the match continues to zero. A curiosity: the three were missing in the same arch, that of La Doce.

Benedict, a leader in sight

Benedetto is one of those nominated by the Football Council after the elimination in the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores. Despite the fact that captain Carlos Izquierdoz, who, injured, was excluded from the list of concentrates and is looking for a way to speed up his departure, Pipa would have lost position also in the concepts of Juan Román Riquelme and company and none. it will prevent him from leaving the club he returned to to become the new locker room leader.

However, that idyll broke, the reason was a tough discussion between the leaders of the squad and the management that took place on Monday, the day before the cupbearer’s duel against Corinthians. There, Izquierdoz, Benedetto, Frank Fabra and Marcos Rojo met with the Council members to organize the Copa Libertadores awards. One version also says that they have claimed a debt for the Argentine Cup. The speech gradually became more tense and, apparently, Izquierdoz was the one who led the team’s singing voice. The crossing was tough.

Reporters closest to Riquelme implied that the players had asked for money in case of elimination; that is, they wanted a sum to win and another, lower, for the simple fact of participating. There they would be treated as “losers”.

The narrated sequence found logic when Darío Benedetto’s harangue was revised before jumping on the pitch to face the Brazilians in the Bombonera. “Yesterday they treated us like losers. So let’s show these motherfuckers that we want to win, that we are winners, “Pipa said in the tunnel. The” yesterday “of the scorer was referring to Monday and the hot meeting with the directors.

The wrong penalty against Talleres added a new link to the chain of misunderstandings. We will have to see how it affects what comes next.

The other penalties missed by Benedetto