2-0: Boca come back and eliminate Racing

Boca Juniors, who had lost 1-0 eight days earlier, advanced to the semifinals of the Libertadores Cup where is waiting for you Saints Brazilian, after coming back this Wednesday to Racing with a 2-0 that could have been more bulky had it not been for the goalkeeper Gabriel Arias.

The Argentine River Plate and the Brazilian Palmeiras also aspire to the final of the 2020 Copa Libertadores that will be settled in January.

Santos, Boca's next rival, eliminated Gremio in the quarterfinals with a 5-1 aggregate.

Eduardo Salvio, with a superb header, and Colombian Sebastián Villa, from a penalty, sealed the classification of Xeneize.

They will be the fourth semifinal phase that they play in the last five editions of the tournament.

Boca Juniors continues in pursuit of its seventh Copa Libertadores title after those of 1977, 1978, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2007.

The Chilean nationalized goalkeeper Gabriel Arias prevented the distance between the two teams from being greater.

But at 23 minutes a faulty center hit Colombian Villa's back and enabled Eduardo Salvio, who with a frontal header overcame Racing's resistance. Thus leveled the series.

They had to spend 25 minutes and a goal against to find the reaction of Racing that after a great individual play by Fabricio Domínguez yielded to Lorenzo Melgarejo who took a defective and deflected cross shot.

Boca went for more and two minutes later Salvio overflowed on the right and threw another center back for the arrival of Tevez who took another shot that made Arias shine with a slap over the crossbar.

The local did not give up on the pressure and in the 36th minute a ball back found a whiplash from Sebastián Villa that again demanded the Racing goalkeeper in two halves to stop the ball and then push it to the corner kick.

After this first half, the technician of the visit tried two variants with the income of Augusto Solari and Darío Cvitanich by Matías Rojas and Héctor Fértoli.

Racing won in dynamics but continued without offensive weight in Esteban Andrada's area and, on top of that, in the 60th minute a foul by Lisandro López on Eduardo Salvio led to the penalty charged by Colombian referee Wilmar Roldán.

The forward Sebastián Villa asked to execute it and his corner shot made the difference so that Boca Juniors for the first time in the series felt that their passage to the semifinals was possible.

Racing, with this disadvantage in the score, took another role and in the 76th minute had an option with a shot from entered Carlos Alcaraz who demanded Andrada's response to get a vibrating shot from the corner.

Boca could have stretched the lead to arrive calmer at the end of the game, but the experience of Carlos Tevez associated with Colombian entered Edwin Cardona allowed him to reach the end with almost no shocks.

In this way, Boca Juniors meet with Santos in one of the semifinals of this 2020 edition of the Copa Libertadores, while in the other key River Plate and Palmeiras will face.

Data sheet:

2. Boca Juniors: Esteban Andrada; Leonardo Jara (m.82, Julio Buffarini), Lisandro Lopez, Carlos Izquierdoz and Frank Fabra; Eduardo Salvio (m.74, Edwin Cardona), Jorman Campuzano, Diego González (m.51, Nicolás Capaldo) and Sebastián Villa; Carlos Tevez and Franco Soldano.

Coach: Miguel Ángel Russo.

0. Racing Club: Gabriel Arias; Fabricio Domínguez (m.61, Walter Montoya), Leonardo Sigali, Nery Domínguez (m.82, Nicolás Reniero), Alexis Soto and Eugenio Mena; Lorenzo Melgarejo (m.67, Carlos Alcaraz), Leonel Miranda, Matias Rojas (m.46, Augusto Solari) and Héctor Fértoli (m.46, Darío Cvitanich); Lisandro López.

Coach: Sebastián Beccacece

Goals: 1-0, m.23: Eduardo Salvio. 2-0, m.61: Sebastián Villa, from a penalty.

Referee: Colombian Wilmar Roldán admonished Soldano and Alcaraz.

Incidents: second leg of the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores played at the Alberto J. Armando 'La Bombonera' Stadium, in Buenos Aires.