From Chiquito Romero’s fury at the referee to the resolute support for DT Martinez’s team: Boca’s voices after the elimination against Cruzeiro

Despite the exile Louis Advincula at the beginning of the game and an unsuccessful first half, Boca Juniors managed to recover, scored and brought the 1/8 series to penalties South American Cup in view of Cruzeiro. However, in a smooth game with excellent performances Miguel Merentiel He deflected a shot over the crossbar and left Xenize awake, creating the impression that 11 against 11 could take the key moment.

Now you should focus your guns on Professional Leaguein which he is eighth, six points behind leader Huracan, and Argentina Cupin which they will face Talleres in the quarterfinals. On Monday he will visit Students of La Platafrom 21:00, 12th of the First Division competition.

«I am proud to be part of this group.It’s hard to survive such a final with such a quick removal, but the team showed its face, understood how to play it, and we even had clear situations to equalize the score with one less. It’s a mixture of feelings; there’s a lot of sadness, helplessness, anger, but at the same time it highlights what these players have done to represent this institution and leave it at the top.“, – said DT. Diego Martinez at a press conference following the lawsuit.

The camp counselor who had a confrontation with the referee Wilmar Roldan during the match – he reproached him for his angry protest – he did not emphasize the referee’s decisions, although he did Chiquito Romerowho accompanied him in his conversations with journalists. “I told Roldan that the ball flies out before the second goalit’s pretty clear he’s going outside. The decisions they made today were a little weird. In the first half you could see the court was tilted towards us, everything is very much a gift for Cruzeiro“We need to raise our heads, think about what awaits us, focus on Monday, that will be important for us,” the goalkeeper said.

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OTHER DEFINITIONS OF DIEGO MARTINEZ

Failures in decisive cases

“The team has lost unfairly in two key situations this year: the League Cup – in the semi-final against Estudiantes – and in this elimination. It will be difficult to sleep today and from tomorrow we will have to think about adjusting the championship and continuing the fight for the Argentina Cup. Seeing the efforts of the guys, it calms us down a little, but all the defeats hurt.”

Advincula and Merentiel’s pain

“These are our two best players. Luis was devastated and very upset. You have to accompany him, just like Miguel; what a dichotomy: our two best players got what they got. From tomorrow they will continue to contribute.”

Method of overcoming the pain of defeat

“It hurts a lot, but this group has shown that they come out of adversity and we’re going to come out of this tough blow. And we all felt like we were going to get past the penalty shootout. We’ll pick it up tomorrow and look forward to everything we have to compete against for the rest of the year.”

“I saw a group that suffered a lot, but a lot of people argued and appreciated the effort that was put in. Beyond everything that we feel today, I saw a very strong dressing room, with a big head; a men’s dressing room. The only way we know how to get out is to work, I don’t know any other way. And we have a group of players and we are going to move forward together.”