The Argentina League gives Boca Juniors Reality and River Plate before the Club World Cup – Chicago Tribune
By Debora Rey
Buenos Aires (AP) – Despite millionaire campuses, which even include world champions and figures from several selections, River Plate and Boca Juniors have bitten the Dust of the Argentinian League and faced with several questions of their preparation for the Club World Cup.
The two were eliminated in the quarter -final of the opening tournament, a case too early for the giants of Argentinian football.
In its monumental stadium in Colmado, River fell on Tuesday 4-2 penalties against the Modesto plaster. It was the eighth consecutive defeat in definition in this way for those led by Marcelo Gallardo.
“I do not like to reach these cases,” admitted Gallardo, who, as a sign of the embarrassment of the definition of penalties, said that it was missing one after Ignacio Schor turned the decisive shooting which gave the classification to the “calmar”.
“We will try to work so as not to reach this body first and, if it arrives, it will be another story,” said the technician.
In addition to the penalties, River fell into boxes concerning the five consecutive victories that he had Hilvanado after defeating Boca in the classic on April 27.
“More than worry, I find myself with the frustration of not being able to reach the end,” said Gallardo. “Today (Tuesday), we could not sink while we were flowing, and the other, the work that the rival has done, which has done merits so that we could not show what we were doing.”
Trumbling becomes even more obvious due to the contrast between schools.
River has the world champions of Argentina, Franco Armani, Germán Pezzella and Marcos Acuña. In addition, he spent more than $ 50 million to strengthen at the start of the season, Colombian midfielder Kevin Castaño and striker Sebastián Driussi at the head of the most expensive signatures.
In addition, he has Franco Mastanuono in his ranks, the 17 -year -old jewel who became the architect of the game in the millionaire team.
Despite themselves, in this semester, he said goodbye early in the local league and lost the Super Cup because of workshops, also for penalties. On credit: he qualified for the 16 of the Copa Libertadores.
The millionaire team will close its participation in the first round of local libertadores against Universitario de Perú and can then focus on the preparation of the Club World Cup which will start on June 15 on Tuesday.
River will make his debut on June 17 against the Urawua Reds from Japan by the E group who also integrate the Inter d’Italie and Monterrey du Mexico.
Boca: Without cut, league and without technician
For its part, Boca was eliminated from the opening tournament to 1-0 against independence on Monday at the La Bombonera stadium.
It was the closure of a semester for oblivion that started with the first farewells in the preliminary phase of the Copa Libertadores against Alianza Lima by penalties and had another taupe with defeat in the classic against the river by the League.
The failures ended with coach Fernando Gago, ejected from the position of less than one year to assume and in the middle of the definition of the local competition, facing the interim coach Mariano Herrón.
Tired of the channel Transpiès, fans for the first time were expressed with songs against the president and the maximum idol Juan Román Riquelme, and against a group of players in routing family names who did not give the size, such as the shooter of Uruguayan Edinson Cavani, the Spanish Anderra and the Carlos Chiliers Palacios.
The technicians Gustavo Quinteros, Antonio Mohamed (Toluca de México) and Miguel Russo (San Lorenzo) appear to be the main candidates to direct Boca, but the election takes.
Boca will play his first engagement in club World Cup against Benfica in Portugal on June 16 by group C which he shares with Bayern Munich and the city of Auckland in New Zealand.
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