River Plate won this Sunday a valuable 2-1 victory against Boca Juniors, in a new edition of the Argentine football superclassic, a match corresponding to the fifteenth day of the Argentine football opening tournament.
With goals from Franco Mastantuono and Sebastián Driussi, the millionaire gave his audience a great joy in a monumental stadium that had the greatest number of spectators in history this Sunday: 85,018 attendees and before a rival who had achieved the transitional draw through the Uruguayan Miguel Ángel Merentiel.
The Monumental Stadium recorded a new attendance record: 85,018 spectators
With this victory in the Interzonal, River Plate climbed to the third position of Group B with 28 points, four from the Central Rosario leader, while Boca Juniors remains as leader of the area A with 32 points despite the fall this afternoon.
River goes up to the third position of group B and Boca remains as leader of the area A
The meeting had a clear dominator from the beginning with a team by Marcelo Gallardo that came out determined to clarify his classic rival.
In the first 15 minutes he had three head options through Giuliano Galoppo, Franco Mastantuono and Facundo Colidio but always found an Agustín Marchesín well located.
Boca, meanwhile, was always on the defensive and at minute 23 already had three admonished: Tomás Belmonte, Ayrton Costa and Marcos Rojo.
Franco Mastantuono opened the can for the locals
The latter saw the yellow card for a hard entry to Sebastián Driussi and in that foul the ‘young wonder’ Franco Mastantuono masterfully executed a launch that got into the upper left angle of Marchesín to open the score.
River maintained its territorial supremacy and with the ball but in the 37th minute a frontal auction found a bad resolution in the clearance of Germán Pezzella and left the Uruguayan Miguel Ángel Merentiel in the race to define cross and match the result.
However, in the 44th minute a center of Marcos Acuña found a header of Sebastián Driussi, who found the Marchesín reaction that left a rebound so that Driussi himself pushed the ball to the net.
New record: 264 clashes with 92 victories for Boca and 88 for River
In the second part River retreated to play counterattack and Boca climbed a few meters in offensive but the best actions were from the premises to expand the advantage.
In the 52nd minute a center behind the admitted Fabricio Bustos ended with a diverted auction from the crossbar of Sebastián Driussi and six minutes later a shot picked up Miton Delgado badly and left Franco Mastantuono launched but chose to define diverted before giving the goal to a Facundo Colidio that arrived in front of the arch.
Boca Hilvanó good connections but did not find depth and his coach Fernando Gago took to rotate the bench to look for answers.
Fernando Gago took to rotate the bench to look for answers
On the end the figure of Franco Armani appeared to save the draw and sentence the triumph of River Plate to delirium of his fans before the eternal rival: Boca Juniors and at home.
The two most important clubs in Argentina now record a history of 264 clashes with 92 victories for Boca and 88 for River, while on 84 occasions they tied.
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