DIM loses to Boca Juniors and is eliminated from Copa Libertadores

Independiente Medellín’s role in the group stage. Four losses in the same number of starts sums it up. He could not defeat Libertad, nor with Caracas and much less with Boca Juniors, which confirmed his crisis and eliminated him from the Copa Libertadores by beating him 0-1 at the Atanasio Girardot, in an opaque match, full of mistakes and that revealed his fragility.

Everything seems experimental in the Mighty after the para. Bobadilla, who cannot find the team, tried Giraldo, Estupiñán and Escalante. It was unsuccessful. Nor did he have it a week ago when he bet on Cortés and ‘Tití’ Rodríguez, whom he replaced at minute 34 in the 2-3 defeat with Caracas that set off the alarms.

Against Xeineze, the ball burned him. And to the lack of depth he added that his inability to progress in the game. While Campuzano was distributing the game at ease at Atanasio, in the same way he did with Atlético Nacional, the owner of the yard found it difficult to chain more than three passes.

Escalante was in debt to the team that formed him. For this reason he did not appear for the complement and gave his place to Monges, as did Estupiñán with ‘Shirra’ Mosquera after a pale first half, which had Carlitos Tevez as the protagonist with his approaches, despite not being fine and failing on the still ball.

Russo’s men did not have to play a long game to dominate. His rival facilitated the performance in Medellín with errors at the start, poor deliveries and lost balls. However, he could not make a difference in the two clearest chances. In the first, Mosquera Marmolejo cut Apache to keep zero.

And then, after a loss by Escalante, again Tevez arrived in danger, but Rodríguez’s closing prevented the auction. Then Salvio was in charge of finishing the play with a shot that Marmolejo managed to deflect so that the stick gave a hand to Red against the leader of Group H.

Praying for Maroni due to injury when the game called for some of Cardona’s talent, who watched the game attentively from the benches in the tribune, where Fabra was also present.

Second half and elimination of the DIM

For the second half, the trend continued. DIM did everything possible so that the blue and gold team did not win it, but tried very little to get that goal that will comfort after three defeats in the group stage. It was barely enough to try with a free kick from Reina, which again did not weigh and lost that opportunity by sending it over the top.

And Boca, with his lack of aim, did not take advantage of the mistakes of his rival, who suffered on the wings and was fragile in the duels, like the one that Delgado lost so that Tevez finished facing goal and regretting a few seconds later the option that wasted for the visitor, who had also had a dangerous foray with Fernández.

In the middle of the loose compromise With a DIM that did not have what and a Xeneize that was satisfied, the feeling remained that the Argentine squad could win it if they hurried. In addition, Cardona’s entry fueled that feeling after Carlitos lost several opportunities.

But everything was consummated in an error by Delgado, in a back pass that fell short and Capaldo connected to test Marmolejo’s reflexes. The goalkeeper responded, but on the rebound, ‘Toto’ Salvio resolved to confirm his great moment with the score (88 ‘), leave the game 0-1 and consolidate Boca at the top of the zone with ten points, followed by Caracas with seven, while Libertad is third with six units. And the DIM … last, without a point and with a project reeling.

Sunday awaits Peireira for the BetPlay League in the Atanasio and then cross with Caracas to start saying goodbye to the Cup.