River Plate asserted logic against a Tigre submerged in the background and defeated it 3-1 with a hat trick from Colombian striker Miguel Borja, while Boca lost again, this Sunday in the fourth round of the Argentine Professional League.
Borja (13 and 58, both from penalties, and 53) scored in triplicate and reached 22 goals in 25 games played in 2024 by the coffee striker, a figure that includes his goals in the Copa Libertadores and the Argentine Cup.
Borja has 45 goals in River, and with the three on Sunday he equaled his compatriot Radamel Falcao García on the list of the club’s top foreign scorers, increasingly closer to the Chilean Marcelo Salas (47) and another Colombian, Rafael Santos Borré ( 55), but far from the Uruguayan Enzo Francescoli’s record (137).
With this victory, River reaches 9 points and places third, one unit behind the leaders Racing and Talleres (10).
On the other hand, Gonzalo Maroni (45+3, penalty) scored for a Tigre that is last in the season table, with just 6 points in 18 games, and is beginning to look with great concern at the possibility of relegation.
For its part, Boca once again disappointed with a historic 1-0 defeat against the modest Platense, against whom it had not lost for 26 years, in another mediocre performance by the ‘xeneize’, with a very low individual and collective level of its figures, which It leaves him at the bottom of the standings.
The match was even in the first half, until Boca was left with ten players due to the childish expulsion of the captain, Marcos Rojo, for slapping a rival. From there Platense was superior and found the goal in the second half through Mateo Pellegrino (67), son of coach Mauricio Pellegrino.
After the match, Diego Martínez, Boca’s coach, highlighted that Rojo’s expulsion “conditioned the game, playing with one less was decisive”, and regarding the fourth expulsion of the defender in the blue and gold club, he expressed that “it is not time to talk, we will talk about it during the week.
The defeat against Platense, which had not won in the League, leaves Boca in 18th place, far from the top and with just one victory in four games that determines its situation before the break for the Copa América, in a semester in which which has been far from finding consistent performance.
Central Córdoba, the team led by Colombian Lucas González Vélez, stumbled again and suffered its fourth defeat of the tournament, this time 4-2 against the leading Talleres, who had less of the ball, but was much sharper and capitalized on each of the weaknesses of the local defense.
The Chilean Bruno Barticciotto (9 and 48), Marcos Portillo (69) and Gustavo Albarracín (78) scored the goals for the Córdoba team, while Tomás Molina (45 + 3 and 74, from a penalty) reduced the numbers for the Santiago team.
In Córdoba, Instituto extinguished the good start of Gimnasia de La Plata, which had started the day as the leader, and beat them 2-1 with a double from Santiago Rodríguez (29 and 81), after the Uruguayan Matías Abaldo had advanced to the visit after five minutes.
In addition, veteran forward Marco Ruben returned to Rosario Central at the age of 37, and did so in the best way, by scoring in injury time (90+3) the goal of the 1-1 draw against Lanús, which had put itself in advantage with a header from Felipe Peña Biafore (23).
These are the results of the fourth date:
-Saturday:
Racing-Deportivo Riestra 1-0
Belgrano-Argentinos Juniors 1-0
Vélez-Atlético Tucumán 1-1
-Sunday:
Platense-Boca 1-0
Central Córdoba-Workshops 2-4
Rosario Central-Lanús 1-1
Institute-Gymnastics and Fencing 2-1
River-Tigre 3-1
-Monday:
San Lorenzo-Sarmiento
Defense and Justice-Independent
Students-Godoy Cruz
-Tuesday:
Barracas Central-Huracán
Banfield-Newell’s
Independent Rivadavia-Union
These are the positions:
– Pts J G E P GF GC
1. Racing 10 4 3 1 0 12 4
2. Workshops 10 4 3 1 0 9 3
3. River Plate 9 4 3 0 1 9 2
4. Gymnastics LP 7 4 2 1 1 8 4
5. Hurricane 7 3 2 1 0 5 2
6. Union 7 3 2 1 0 4 1
7. Ind. Rivadavia 7 3 2 1 0 3 0
8. Institute 7 4 2 1 1 5 4
9. Belgrano 7 4 2 1 1 7 8
10. Students 6 3 2 0 1 4 2
11. Newell’s 6 3 2 0 1 3 1
12. Argentinos Juniors 6 4 2 0 2 4 6
13. Central Rosary 5 4 1 2 1 6 5
14. Lanús 5 4 1 2 1 4 5
. Vélez Sarsfield 5 4 1 2 1 4 5
16. Atlético Tucumán 5 4 1 2 1 3 4
17. Platense 5 4 1 2 1 2 3
18. Boca Juniors 4 4 1 1 2 4 4
19. Central Barracks 4 3 1 1 1 2 3
20. Riestria 3 4 1 0 3 1 5
21. Independent 2 3 0 2 1 2 4
22. San Lorenzo (1) 1 2 0 1 1 1 2
23. Godoy Cruz (1) 1 2 0 1 1 0 1
24. Sarmiento 1 3 0 1 2 2 4
25. Defense and Justice 1 3 0 1 2 2 5
26. Banfield 1 3 0 1 2 1 5
27. Tiger 1 4 0 1 3 2 9
28. Central Córdoba 0 4 0 0 4 5 13
(1) They have their match suspended after 52 minutes due to incidents. They tied 1-1
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