Boca debuted in 2025 with a comfortable victory against Juventude of Brazil at the Único de San Nicolás stadium. It was 2-0 with a goal against Kelvi Chiesa Gomes who found it almost without looking for it and a goal from Miguel Merentiel. Without shining, the best of the team Fernando Gago It was seen in the second half.
The Xeneize transfer market generated (and continues to generate) noise. Unlike previous transfer periods, Juan Román Riquelme and the members of the Football Council invested in senior footballers, those called to be starters. Under that label they are framed Carlos Palacios, Rodrigo Battaglia, Ander Herrera and Alan Velasco, for example, who are joined by Ayrton Costa and Williams Alarcón. And the arrival of Agustín Marchesín is expected in the coming days. And Leandro Paredes?
However, Boca fans saw a very different team this Wednesday in San Nicolás from the one they imagine with the new faces that arrived. Only the Chilean Palacioscoming on for Lucas Janson to play the second half, added minutes. The rest will have to wait.
Given the absences of Marcos Rojo and Cristian Lema, who did not travel to continue with their set-up, the loss of Nicolás Figal due to injury and the departure of Aarón Anselmino to English football, Gago had to improvise with an unpublished line of three: Lucas Blondel (right) and Lautaro Di Lollo (left) were the stoppers, while Tomás Belmonte was left as libero.
“I never played there, but as long as it’s to be in the eleven you like it. When you feel the coach’s confidence, it makes you want to. We have been working on it and I hope it turns out well,” Blondel declared before the meeting. Quite a surprise. Another novelty had to do with the inclusion of Camilo Rey Domenechyouth category 2006, for the first time in the First team, while Santiago Dalmasso debuted in the complement (2004).
There were 14 minutes of the first half when Boca shouted the first. Agustín Martegani recovered the ball in the middle of the field, drove with the ball dominated in the rival field and enabled Brian Aguirre on the left, who played in the middle and was fortunate that defender Kelvi Chiesa Gomes scored the goal against him.
In any case, during the first 45 minutes, before and after the goal, Juventude dominated the game. First, he approached the opening of the scoring with a powerful Luis Mandaca’s right shot that crashed against the crossbar of the goal defended by Leandro Brey. Enio, one of the Brazilian team’s forwards, also had a very clear chance.
When they retreated, to Leandro Brey.
Beyond the entry of Palacios for Janson and the change of goalkeepers (Javier García replaced Brey), Boca improved in the second half. There was no change in tactical disposition, but they managed to settle in better on the field and no longer suffered as much as in the initial stage. Of course Merentiel’s goalwith a cross shot four minutes into the final half after receiving an assist from Barinaga, was reassuring and, at the same time, shut down the visiting team.
Boca won and is waiting for the start of the official competition, which will be next Wednesday against Argentine from Monte Maíz for the Argentine Cupin Santa Fe. He is also waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.