The present of Palacios, solidity back, forcefulness and fresh legs

Cold numbers do not admit discussions: Boca It is the best team in the Opening Tournament. Master the tip of zone A and is first in the annual table. If you exceed the previous instances until you reach the final of June 1 in Santiago del Estero, you will have the benefit of playing in La Bombonera. And the level of the game, at least in the last two games, is in the growing. The collective benefit in Córdoba was very good and also, the second half before students. With nine victories in the last ten dates, and with more rest, it is possible to say that it comes better to the superclassic.

Of course on Sunday, at 15.30 in the Monumental, It will be one of those matches that will question Fernando Gago’s cycleregardless of the harvest of results. And although it is not a spyhas the seal of a hinge duel. The semifinal with Vélez in the Argentine Cup and the round trip against Alianza Lima for phase 3 of the Libertadores tested the team and was eliminated. Today the coach’s continuity is not at stake, but what happens in Núñez will be an impulse to affirm the way or a fall that can generate complications in the future.

Under this situation, the questions have to do with Boca’s weapons to overcome River. What are your best resources?

“I will define the team from Tuesday,” Gago said at the press conference. However, no major doubts appear on the horizon. After cuping failure, it changed very little and found the ideal eleven. Lucas Blondel did not work against Belgrano and that is why he was replaced at 23 minutes of the second half by Luis Advíncula. On Saturday, the Peruvian started. Who will play on Sunday?

Blondel and Advíncula offer similar characteristics, they are two players with the best projection that marks. In any case, in the collective operation the most sharp side is Lautaro Blanco. The Rosario is one of the imbalance factors with its overflows and centers. It can be decisive, without a doubt.

It is an important aspect, especially before an adversary who began to show great mobility in attack. Agustín Marchesín responded when they called him, while Rodrigo Battaglia and Marcos Rojo showed no fissures. Without going any further, it is one of the teams that received the least goals (8, like Rosario Central, San Lorenzo and Argentinos), behind River and Riestra (both with 7 embedded).

The Chilean moves with freedoms, beyond that it starts like the old hitch, something centered. Behind Enzo Pérez, it can be fundamental in Boca’s offensive position. In Kevin Zenón, internal on the left, he found a great partner. Tomás Belmonte will be the combat steering wheel and Milton Delgado, the exit.

Unleashing the youth of rival blockade is key. When they cover the boy from the U20 team, Boca suffers with the first pass. Ander Herrera is trying to arrive in the best way to Sunday’s clash. He was injured on March 31. With a tear in the right quadriceps, on Sunday I would be in the stipulated deadlines to paste the turn.

Boca alone did not make goals in 3 of the 17 games disputed in 2025. Harvest 29 (22 in the Opening Tournament, 5 in the Argentine Cup and 2 in the frustrated Libertadores). The average is good (1.7). The screams are distributed – mostly – among the strikers (16). And although his scorer is Miguel Merentiel (6), Gago relegated him to the bank.

The coach explained the position of the Uruguayan against students, where he started to the left, without any gravitation, and ended to the right in the complement, sector in which the figure resulted in his assistance to Palacios in the first goal and the own shout, a medium -distance bombing that liquidated the game. Will the technician hold him against River? If Milton Giménez recovers, what will he do Topped?

And what will happen to Edinson Cavani? No one can doubt the category of Uruguayan, who Gago always emphasizes that he has “more than 500 goals.” However, he barely made two in 2025 and his lack of forcefulness became couch. Do you lack confidence in the area? He participates in the most outstanding actions, as happened two weeks ago in Córdoba, but fails when he has to take care of the responsibility of finishing the plays.

Boca is usually superior in the forty -five final minutes. To overcome the high pressure that River will exert in the beginning will be the first scale in Núñez. The team made it clear that it is not worried to wait and leave against until it can become the owner of the ball, as happened against Belgrano and students.

In that sense, there is a factor that can be decisive. Boca played on Saturday and will arrive in Udondo and Figueroa Alcorta with fresh legs. River, on the other hand, will have to play Wednesday against Independiente del Valle at the height of Quito. The rival wear is a point in favor. Manage the charges and hurt at the time that the adversary lowers the guard will be strategic.