😳 Controversial call from Miguel Russo after Boca’s exit | OneFootball

The experienced head coach, who appreciated the team’s performance despite the result, gave his squad a break after returning empty-handed from Santiago del Estero.

Boca Juniors suffered an early elimination in the Round of 32 of the Copa Argentina after being defeated 2-1 by Atlético Tucumán at the Estadio Madre de Ciudades, a very tough result for a squad that was given a rest this Thursday.

The team led by Miguel Ángel Russo experienced a delay in their return flight to Buenos Aires from Santiago del Estero, so the coaching staff decided it was best to cancel Thursday’s training session and give the players the rest of the day off.

In this way, Boca’s players will only have two training sessions ahead of Sunday’s match against Huracán at the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó, for the third round of the 2025 Torneo Clausura of the Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF).

At the press conference after the defeat to Atlético Tucumán, Russo said he liked the team’s performance. “It was a tough blow for us, I think (Boca) did enough to win the match. The last 15 minutes of the first half, there were many chances,” he began his analysis.

“I think we lost because the referee didn’t see a foul, but beyond that, we have to keep looking for things, balancing ourselves, and getting back up from all this for Boca’s fans and for ourselves as well. The team did not regress; at certain moments we had many favorable situations, we just lacked that, nothing more. If you ask me about the team as a whole, today I liked the team. There was a lot of movement, we attacked on both flanks; there were many good things at the team level,” he concluded.

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