The Boca Juniors Courier
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Sebastián Villa runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
15 unbeaten for Boca Juniors
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Boca Juniors did not have in the autumn.
Match2 Oct 2026
Boca Juniors do the business in Europe
2‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Boca Juniors came through the finding-out well against Audax Italiano.
Match3 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
6 on the bounce on the road for Boca Juniors. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nobody wins at Boca Juniors
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Leandro Brey has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Boca Juniors count the cost of losing Matías Satas
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sebastián Villa reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Leandro Paredes in the eights
A performance of 8.30 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Player ratings Miguel Merentiel in the eights
- Squad A falling-out at Boca Juniors
- The dugout Carlos Palacios gets it from the manager