The monumental is a party. Those more than 85,000 millionaires vibrate and sing the same as their players on the field: “A minute of silence … SSSSSSSHHHHHHHH … for the mouth that is dead …”. And one of those players with the red band diagonally, on 30, draws the same smile as his coach. Yeah, Franco Mastantuono has the same happiness as Marcelo Gallardo and that all River. They enjoy a key superclassic victory against a mouth with too many precautions. It is a triumph to affirm the convictions for the future and to certify that now, it is the time of that early talent that many European clubs look at.
One of the highest soccer expectations of the superclassic involved Franco Mastantuono, to the 17 -year pearl that River enjoys and that is marking the path of Marcelo Gallardo's team. While it was his third time before Boca, this crossing was the first in which he arrived as a crop driver of the millionaires. And he ratified his sweet news printing his seal in the largest match in Argentine football.
A great goal for history
When you talk about the great goals of the Superclassic, there will be a chapter to The free kick of Mastantuono who broke zero to zero on April 27, 2025. a delight Franco's left -handedfrom 28 meters. The ball drew a curve from the inside out. It seemed that he was going above the crossbar, but suddenly he went down and got at an angle. To always look at it.
That shout of Mastantuono established justice. With Enzo Pérez, Kevin Castaño and Giuliano Galoppo In front of the four defenders and behind Mastantuono, Sebastián Driussi and Facundo Colidio, Gallardo's River was superior to the strange mouth designed by Fernando Gago.
Gago surprises with 5-4-1
The DT Xeneize was surprised by planting a line of five defenders, in a 5-4-1 scheme, with Miguel Merentiel as the only attacker real. It seemed exaggeratedly cautious. It is real that it did not have the torn Edinson Cavani (He was in Núñez, only as a companion of the group, just like Ander Herrera, who is not yet to return) and Milton Giménez In the end he did not even go to the substitute bank, but it is also true that he had other alternatives to continue with the 4-4-2 with which he had been accumulating victories.
The three goals, in the first part
River started better than Boca and, after Mastantuono's goal, he could even stretch the difference, but Marchesín beat Driussi a hand in hand And he took out a Salvador Biotazo before A header from Germán Pezzella.
However, a ball as long as Lautaro Blanco fell behind Pezzella and Merentiel ran only to define with class Before the departure of Franco Armani and tied it. But River did not feel the impact and continued with his search. And after moving the ball, Marcos Acuña sent a precise center that exceeded Marcos Rojo and Driussi emerged from behind to nail the second.
River, much superior to rest
River was much superior in the first half with Mastantuono's fantasy, the experience of Enzo Pérez, Acuña's projections and what Driussi demanded. It also won the air game. However, in the second, he failed to maintain that rhythm. Lost two players for injuries: Gonzalo Montiel and Giuliano Galoppo They left and left their place to Fabricio Bustos and Maximiliano Meza. Later, Roddrigo Alle and Manuel Lanzinin By Enzo Pérez and Facundo Colidio. And near the epilogue, Miguel Borja by Sebastián Driussi.
Gago delayed to make the changes. Only at 21 of that final stage he put one more striker, Exequiel Zeballosand modified the initial 5-4-1 by a 5-3-2. And then Zeballos himself had a hand in hand that kicked diverted. The only moment when DT Xeneize risked a little more was in the 90th minute! There he opted to Brian Aguirre, Front, by Milton Delgado, flyer, and Boca stayed with a 5-2-3. All very strange … and almost equals it in the last sighs, but He crashed with two saved from Franco Armani. What would have happened if he dared before?
RIVER PLATE
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BOCA JUNIORS
River Plate: Franco Armani; Gonzalo Montiel (M.46, Fabricio Bustos), Germán Pezzela, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Marcos Acuña; Enzo Perez (M.72, Rodrigo Alliddro), Kevin Castéño, Giuliano Galoppo (M.54, Maximilian meza); Franco Mastantuono; Facundo Collidio (M.72, Manuel Lanzini) and Sebastian Drriussi (M.75, Miguel Borja).
Coach: Marcelo Gallardo.
Boca Juniors: Agustín Marchesín; Luis Advíncula, Rodrigo Battaglia, Marcos Rojo (M.66, Lautaro Di Lollo), Ayrton Costa, Lautaro Blanco (m.86, Marcelo Saracchi); Tomás Belmonte (m.66, Exequiel Zeballos), Milton Delgado (m.90, Brian Aguirre), Kevin Zenón; Carlos Palacios; Miguel Merentiel.
Coach: Fernando Gago.
Goals: 1-0, m.24: Franco Mastantuono. 1-1, m.37: Miguel Ángel Merentiel. 2-1, m.43: Sebastián Driussi.
Arbitrator: Nicolás Ramírez warned Marcos Acuña, Miguel Borja, Maximiliano Meza, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Franco Mastantuono, Kevin Castaño, Tomás Belmonte, Ayrton Costa, Marcos Rojo, Luis Advíncula, Rodrigo Battaglia.
Incidents: Match valid for the 15th day of the Opening Tournament played at the Antonio Vespucio Liberti 'Monumental' stadium, in Buenos Aires, before 85,018 spectators.
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Time will say how much it hits a gago who was already punished this superclassic in which he changed a scheme that had been working for another more cautious and in which he never really encouraged to send his mouth to attack.
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With both classified to the playoffs, it was an ideal superclassic for the search for consolidation. River knows that it is not another victory. He improved and dreams of whether it is his football takeoff. Millionaires enjoy a thunderous triumph. And enjoy Mastantuono.
