* The penalty of the great controversy was very finite, on the limit of “he touched it and it was” or “soccer is a game of friction and he only touched it”. He may or may not have collected Herera. As he charged, those of Boca kick; If he didn’t collect it, those from River were still protesting.
* What the Boquense players (or many fans) are not right about is calling on Herrera to go to VAR. He is under no obligation to do so; Because of the headphones, no one from Ezeiza told him that he could be wrong. They gave him the right and nothing more and that’s where the discussions end.
* What Boca should review, and in this case especially Sández, is why he is going so strong in a play that apparently did not entail any risk. Sández came in cold because Almirón almost secured the zero, and he made him come in for the kid Barco because River also brought in rested players. The change ended up being a mistake.
* The party at the Monumental was extraordinary. Long before the field was full, they did not stop singing throughout the game, they put a spectacular color to the stadium with the flags (hundreds), the balloons (thousands and thousands), and the red and white flares. When the fans were already singing without much force and seemed resigned to zero to zero, the penalty and goal came after 90 minutes. And again the party in its maximum splendor. Unforgettable for each of them.
* There are fans, the most fanatical ones, who want to win like this, with a goal at the last minute to warm up their rivals. There are other fans, the ones with the best taste, who want their own team to far surpass their rivals and beat them with dance and everything. River has more play than Boca, it is capable of winning like that, but this time it was their turn to win in agony (sometimes, among many others, Boca did it with the neck of Guerra), and then the celebration takes on other edges.
* River did not play well, they went under many productions in this same championship, they made many unforced errors, they lost their compass at some point but they attacked more, they always wanted more, they created more scoring situations (including a shot on the post by Solari ), and that is enough for them to recognize the merits beyond the doubts left by the penalty that defined everything.
* Boca played putting the two games of both teams in the balance in recent days. River came from a draw with Atlético Tucumán and a defeat against Fluminense in Brazil. Boca, from two wins against Racing and Colo Colo. With the tie in the Superclásico Boca reached seven points out of nine and River was left with two out of nine. The accounts were about to close redonditas, but Solari, Sández, Herrera and Borja arrived.
* The attitude with which Boca was going to face the game was noticeable in the formations and also in how they stopped before the initial whistle. River with three behind and Boca with five. It did not reach the extreme of that embarrassing zero-nil with Alfaro, but Romero made a lot of time and it was very noticeable that Boca wanted to sign the tie, knowing that it is inferior.
* Herrera did not direct well. He let them hit a lot, he had different staffs for the yellow ones and he was generating a climate of great tension. He was wrong couple.
* The last point, ten, is for Enzo Pérez. Ten points for his reflection on the scandal at the end. “What happened was very ugly and that is something that we must all repair, we cannot give that image to the outside, it is not good for Argentine soccer. What Palavecino did was wrong (he was referring to that of shouting the goal at him in Boca players’ faces) but their reaction was also wrong. It’s the fault of both teams and these things shouldn’t happen anymore.”
