Edwin Cardona scores a free kick and saves Boca in the 2-2 game against Gimnasia – international football – sports

Boca, the current champion of Argentine football, with a goal from the Colombian Edwin Cardona saved a 2-2 draw against a pugnacious Gimnasia y Esgrima, and River Plate made its debut on Sunday with a defeat to Estudiantes before the first date of the League Cup.

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Far from showing a good performance, Boca was a slow team at La Bombonera and during several passages of the game it was surpassed in the game by a daring gymnastics, coming up against him in his own field, but he was left without physical rest . to defend a favorable outcome.

Carlos Izquierdoz (42) put the ‘Xeneizes’ ahead, but Germán Guiffrey (45 + 1) and the Uruguayan Brahian Alemán (63) turned the result for ‘Lobo’.

When there were five minutes left until the end of the gameCardona (85) equalized for the local with a great free kick to the left corner.

“We had situations to play the game in a different way. We are worried about set pieces because no mistakes can be made,” said Boca coach Miguel Ángel Russo after a debut below expectations.

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