Vélez will play the final of the Argentine Cup for the first time in its history. He beat 4-3 against Boca In a match full of epic in the rain at the Kempes, they struck at the moment of the season when they needed it most and established themselves as the best team in Argentine football after a night full of emotions in Córdoba.
Mouth ripped plugged. In the first minutes he had the intensity he wants Fernando Gago of their teams and dominated Vélez. Thus, quickly after 58 seconds of play he had his first dangerous chance. Ignacio Miramoncoming off a corner kick, captured a rebound inside the area and hit it first. His shot went near Tomás Marchiori’s left post.
Few could imagine that Miramón had barely half an hour left on the court. And, even less so, that after 20 minutes Vélez would be winning 2-0. The thing is that Gago’s team was better, and five minutes into the first half they had an even clearer chance.
Edinson Cavani took a gift from Damián Fernández, managed that attacking play well and enabled Exequiel Zeballoslaunched at speed from the right, but the Changuito He didn’t know how to put the brakes on, he took the ball in front of him and scored uncomfortably before Marchiori’s departure. Boca was better, but in a few seconds everything fell apart.
Claudio Aquinoone of the best players of the year in Argentine football, showed all his quality to clean up a play that had become dirty for Vélez and opened the way to victory with a sensational pass for Braian Romero. Converted Francisco Pizzinislap after a clearance Elias Gomezsix minutes into the first half.
After Pizzini’s goal, Vélez’s best minutes were seen, whose game flowed differently in the middle of the field. Everything happened through Aquino, everything revolved around his dribbles, his short passes, his mobility. Boca’s good start had been far away, and the game now seemed to suffer.
The 2-0 is a sign of the confusion of Gago’s team. Nicolas Figal He may excuse himself on the wet grass, but the truth is that he made a gross double mistake. First, he was the one who enabled Matías Pellegrini, who escaped from the left; Later, in an attempt to clear, he scored a great goal against Brey that dislocated him. Crossbar and goal.
It seemed like a blow knockout and it could have been, since just two minutes later Braian Romero made it 3-0 after a long rebound from the goalkeeper. However, this match will be remembered for decades for the reaction capacity of both sides.
“Move, Boca, move… move and stop fucking around… this fan is crazy… today we can’t lose,” the Boca fans sang. The message was clear. The Boca team seemed asleep. For this reason, Gago made an early change: Milton Giménez entered and the one who paid the price was Miramón.
Boca never shined, but managed to react at the end of the first half. In Uruguayan connection, Cavani headed a cross tailored by Marcelo Saracchi and broke Marchiori’s resistance. The discount pushed him to go further and not even the expulsion of Luis Advíncula, a new childish expulsion of the Peruvian, managed to stop the momentum.
It took Boca the whole night, but they had the heart to go look for him. Zeballos started the second half playing on the left wing, his natural position, and it was precisely there that the Changuito reached a tie. How he likes it best: facing from the left to the center and taking a powerful shot.
Now the moment of the match belonged to Xeneize, who with a new intervention by Zeballos made it 3-2, the work of Tomás Belmonte. The blow of knockout Now it was for Vélez, who heroically remained standing.
As the minutes passed the rain became heavier and Agustín Bouzatone who emerged in Boca to make the epic even bigger, believed it was a good time to score his first two goals of the year. And it sealed the final 4-3. There would be no more reaction from Boca because there was no more time. Thus ended a historic night at the Kempes.