A carom for a goal that not even star Lionel Messi could convert. The man from Rosario, it is known, still has to score an Olympic goal (directly from a corner), but also with his face. Because that was the part of the body that the Uruguayan Sebastián Boselli used to block a rebound inside the area and convert the 1-0 for River, which could not find the formula to beat Deportivo Táchira in its debut in the 2024 Copa Libertadores.
Claudio Echeverri had entered a little while ago, who with his imbalance changed the equation of a single-thematic team, which almost did not generate clear dangerous situations in San Cristóbal. El Diablito was the one who recovered the ball, leading to Miguel Borja, who launched a cross that forward Anthony Uribe of Táchira tried to reject, with such bad luck that it bounced off Boselli’s face and went into the goal for 1-0. Like a fool, like in foosball.
It was the defender’s first goal at the Millonario, where he arrived in the middle of last year at the express request of Demichelis. This Tuesday, in Venezuela, he used him again as a right back in a four-player defense.
“I kill myself”Boselli confessed in a video published by the official account of the Copa Libertadores on
There is a statistical connection that Boselli’s goal immediately spread through social networks: Every time River was champion of the Copa Libertadores (1996, 2015 and 2018), the Millonario’s first goal was scored by a Uruguayan.
The other Uruguayan spoke about that, Nicolas Fonsecaauthor of River’s second goal in Venezuela, with a phenomenal volley that hit the Táchira goalkeeper high.
“I dreamed, it’s a unique moment to score a goal on a difficult field. I hadn’t studied it, I saw her score and I said: ‘Let’s hit it’. It’s an obsession to win, but sometimes it’s not enough. You have to be focused on improving every day every day,” he said at a press conference.
The summary of River’s triumph in Venezuela
