The Boca Juniors Courier
Player ratings27 Aug 2035
Simón Rivero runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market27 Aug 2035
Fernando Bravo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Boca Juniors they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Tempers go at Boca Juniors
Lautaro Di Lollo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match25 Aug 2035
Still nobody has beaten Boca Juniors
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Franco Petroli falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad27 Aug 2035
No hiding place for Kevin Zenón
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kevin Zenón, and the manager let it.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Ezequiel Molina out for 31 days
The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Ezequiel Molina, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings27 Aug 2035
Jonás Miszczuk could have had three
11 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Player ratings27 Aug 2035
Camilo Rey Domenech shuts the door
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
In brief
- Match Boca Juniors and Talleres cancel each other out
- Player ratings An afternoon Ayrton Costa will want back
- Market The shop window has Tadej Bonaca in it