‘Boca against everyone’: banners at the training ground and La Bombonera | OneFootball

The squad returned to training after the day off, and both in Ezeiza and around the stadium, the morning began with a message that needed no signature.

Banners always say something, and this Friday they said everything. When the Boca squad returned to Ezeiza after the day off, five banners reading “Boca against everyone” were already hanging at the entrances to the training ground and at the usual spots around La Bombonera. No signature, no visible person responsible, but with an unmistakable message expressing the widespread feeling inside and outside the club after the 1-1 draw with Cruzeiro in the Copa Libertadores, which most people attribute to the decisions of Venezuelan referee Jesús Valenzuela.

It is not the first time a message of this kind has appeared in the club’s institutional spaces. But the timing says it all: it came hours after a match in which Leandro Paredes protested on the field, Miguel Merentiel also spoke out on social media, and Claudio Úbeda himself emphasized in several post-match answers the influence of the refereeing on the result.

The internal feeling left after the match is one of injustice. The banners reflect it exactly, without anyone needing to sign them. And although there has been no official statement from the club leadership on the record, the stance is also clear: to support the expressions of discontent without adding more fuel to a fire that could distract from what lies ahead.

From inside the club, the decision is to wait for the waters to calm. The focus is on the final match of the group stage, against Universidad Católica on Thursday the 28th in Santiago, where Boca will be looking to qualify for the Copa Libertadores round of 16. They already beat the Chilean side in the group’s opening match back in early April, and that precedent is fueling optimism ahead of a showdown that is still within reach.

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