He failed two penalties in a row and Mansilla had already stopped him last year towards the same stick

Edinson Cavani He doesn’t have to do anything to demonstrate the size of his career, but he is not making goals in Boca that reflect their validity. His present of few screams, does not cease to surprise: the prison failed in the Bombonera against Students It is the second evil in consecutively.

The other had been before Newell’swhen the Xeneize cut a streak without penalty in favor that dragged since July 2024. Eight months passed so that Xeneize would give one in favor and the Uruguayan ended up wasting it.

But the height of the statistics is that Matias Mansilla He had already stopped another penalty to Cavani. The previous one had been in the semifinals of the 2024 League Cup, when he stopped the shot, the first of the penalty shootout, and the Xeneize was out of competition.

Thracking, cracks and football whims: Cavani kicked that penalty to the same corner, below the left of the click goalkeeper.

Boca Gan, Hilvana triumphal, but Cavani does not appear among the last names scorers. “We work so that Cavani can convert,” said coach Fernando Gago last week, after his team was dispatched with three goals against Belgrano in Córdoba and could repeat it.

“I see Cavani cheer up. When you have to kick a penalty, if you feel like kicking it,” the DT insisted after the victory against students. What will happen the next time Boca is facing a similar situation?

In what carries the Opening Tournament, the Uruguayan shouted just two goals in the 14 games played. Its many must be looked on on date 2 in the 2 to 1 victory over Hurricanea free kick with diversion in the barrier that dislodged Hernán Galíndez, and before Defense and justicein the 4 to 0 win of date 10 when he pushed a good pass from the Chilean Palacios under the arch, both in the Bombonera.

After the click, what follows on the way of Boca is nothing less than the superclassic against River, in the Monumental. Without goals and with two criminals failed consecutively is far from the record of Diego Maradona -In 1996 with the Xeneize, he missed five in a row-, he holds as a starter thanks to his sacrifice until the last minute of play, even with his 38 years weighing on his physique. It’s not little.