Boca Juniors defeated this Saturday 3-1 at Athletic Tucuman in a result that allowed him to climb to second place in the classification of Zone B of the Argentine Soccer Professional League Cup.
The youth Cristian Medina, the Colombian Sebastián Villa and Franco Soldano converted the goals of the 'Xeneize', while Leonardo Heredia marked the discount for the Tucuman team in a match played at the Bombonera in Buenos Aires.
With this victory, and despite the injuries of Mauro Zárate and Agustín Almendra as negative points, Boca rose to second position with 16 points away from the leader Vélez who added 22 points after his 2-0 victory against Huracán on Friday.
In this same area, Germán Burgos' Newell's Old Boys added their second consecutive victory and remain undefeated after beating Patronato de Paraná 2-0 with goals from Diego Calcaterra and Ignacio Scocco.
After this victory, the Rosario team adds 10 points and still dreams of reaching the first four positions in Zone B that allow them to qualify for the quarterfinals of the tournament.
This Saturday, Sarmiento won 1-0 against a downcast Lanús, while in Zone A San Lorenzo could not take advantage of Ángel Romero's goal and ended up equalizing 1-1 at home with Argentinos Juniors at home.
On Friday, at the beginning of this tenth day, River Plate had beaten Central Córdoba 0-5 away from home in Santiago del Estero, Rosario Central had beaten Aldosivi 0-1 in Mar del Plata and Talleres had beaten 3-0 to Union of Santa.
This Sunday, in the continuity of the tenth date there will be another four meetings with two outstanding ones: the presentation of Independiente before Defensa y Justicia, brand new champion of the Recopa Sudamericana, while Racing Club will visit Arsenal de Sarandí.