Boca Juniors achieves a victory in agony by defeating Deportivo Pereira in the last play and puts pressure on Colo Colo to fight for the leadership of the Copa Libertadores.
The second date of Group F of the Copa Libertadores began in Argentina. Boca Juniors and Deportivo Pereira met at La Bombonerawaiting for what happens with Colo Colo and Monagas on Wednesday in the international arena.
The truth is that the result is not entirely for the Cacique because of how the game took place, product of the fact that Boca Juniors managed to achieve victory in the agony of the match and adding three points important in the fight for the leadership of the international contest.
Mouth wins it in agony
Boca Juniors defeats Deportivo Pereira by two to one at La Bomboneramanaging to turn the game around with his people and add three valuable units to climb to the leadership of Group F in the Copa Libertadores.
Juan Quintero placed the surprise in Buenos Aires before the end of the first half. But, the referee received the call from the VAR to analyze the play, which ended up sanctioning it as a foul and annulling the first conquest of the match.
The emotions of the meeting came in the final stretch of the duel. Jimer Fory (79′) Xeneize took advantage of a bad start from the midfield so that, with a crossed shot to the far post, he scored the one-nil match making Sergio Romero’s stretch impossible.
However, when everything seemed set for a historic victory for Deportivo Pereira in Argentina, the Peruvian defender Luis Advíncula (89′) He put the tie with a tremendous goal that made La Bombonera explode with one on one.
But that would not end there, since, in the discounts of the commitment, the trans-Andean cast managed to turn the game around thanks to the conquest of Alan Varela (99′)who unleashed the celebrations at La Bombonera to win.
This would be the final result of the game with which Boca Juniors added three points that allowed them to continue undefeated in the Libertadores, keeping all four points, while Deportivo Pereira went to the last place in the group with a single unit.
Table of positions of Group F of the Copa Libertadores
