Edwin Cardona scores from a free kick and saves Boca in the game 2-2 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 combative Gimnasia y Esgrima, and River Plate started on Sunday with a defeat against Estudiantes for the first match of the League Cup.

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Far from showing a good performance, Boca was a slow team in La Bombonera and during several passages of the game was overtaken in the game by a bold Gymnastics, who rose in front of him on his own field, but was left without physical rest to defend a favorable result.

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

When there were five minutes until the end of the duel, Cardona (85) equalized for the home side with an excellent free kick in the left corner.

“We had situations to take the game in a different way. We are concerned with the fixed parts, because mistakes cannot be made,” said Boca coach Miguel Ángel Russo after a below-expected debut.

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