For performance, regularity and influence on the game River, Miguel Borja He is the best player the team has today. Marcelo Gallardo and he demonstrated it again in the 4-1 victory against Atlético Tucumán in the Monumental.
The Colombian, after the check of the WASscored the second goal and returned to the goal after two games. But he also excelled by holding the ball with his back against the rival centre-backs to give air to the midfielders and break the rival’s defensive structure, which stood with a compact 4-4-2 and closed the spaces for him.
Borja had to do the dirty work, especially during the first half and even more so after Franco Nicola’s goal that quickly put the Dean ahead. HE sore against Matías de los Santos and Nicolás Romero, who never managed to anticipate him or win the individual duels, to finally have their prize 38 minutes into the first half. He had already equalized Leandro González Pirez a while before, at 24′, and the forward appeared to score 2-1 that opened the way to victory.
A beautiful pass from Diablito Echeverri He entered Atlético’s defense like a dagger and found him on the right. Fabricio Bustos, that reached the bottom and threw the center. The ball passed to the goalkeeper and the Colombian remained unmarked inside the six-yard box. Unusually, his header hit the post, but on the rebound he was able to redeem himself from that rude mistake.
It was his goal 50 in 95 games with the Red Band and thus became the fifth foreigner to reach that figure behind his compatriots Juan Pablo Ángel (62) and Rafael Santos Borré (55) and the Uruguayans Enzo Francescoli (137) and Walter Gómez (77).
His last goal had been against Talleres in the second leg of the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores, Millonario’s great goal of the season, and he shouted again just before the first leg of the quarterfinals against Colo Colo. Borja celebrates it, Gallardo celebrates it and all of River celebrates it, which knows that its goalscorer’s goals are irreplaceable.