Edinson Cavani
knows how to turn the page.
His 36 years and more than 800 games as a professional back him up.
Hours of his black afternoon were spent in Boca
's equality
against
Sarmiento
in the Gasómetro: he missed four clear goal situations and was left in the eye of the storm.
In almost all sports media there was talk about his present, his supposed lack of confidence and his physical condition.
How did the Uruguayan scorer respond?
With a post on his social networks in which he is seen hugged by his children in the garden of his house.
"Energy that only they know how to give," wrote the Matador.
Friday's day began with good news for Cavani: the medical tests carried out on him did not show a muscle injury.
The attacker asked for a change in the second stage against Sarmiento due to discomfort in his left hamstring.
Anyway, he will most likely rest on Monday against Tigre in Victoria.
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Thus, Cavani would not have immediate revenge, but he could reappear on Saturday the 10th against Defensa y Justicia in La Bombonera.
The situations that Cavani failed on Thursday afternoon did not go unnoticed even by his family.
"The truth is that you watch the games always expecting Edinson to give his best, but football is like that. There are times when you have one and you score, and there are other times when you have six, as happened with Sarmiento, and you couldn't score. It's a shame. Also right after came Sarmiento's equalizer," explained Cristian, Cavani's brother, on DSports.
And he added: "It is obvious that the players of a big team like Boca have pressure. It is a very big club and I would not want to be in their shoes. For any player who goes to Boca the expectations will be high. It seems to me that we must "Wait for the moment, which will come. I have the positive thing that he had in many goal situations. He needs to convert and gain a little confidence."
Cavani is fighting with the goal
Cavani has only 3 goals in 18 games for the club.
In the first half against Sarmiento he had a good performance, but further from the goal.
But everything changed in the final part.
At 4 minutes into the second, he poked into space after a pass between the lines from Kevin Zenón and defined after eluding the goalkeeper.
He celebrated but immediately looked towards the assistant's position and realized that he was ahead (one body length at least).
This was the VAR review of the disallowed goal against Cavani 🖥️#LPFxTNTSports pic.twitter.com/wCdBeiJor8
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Three minutes later, the second chance: after another clearance from Zenón, and again left-footed, the Uruguayan forward shot freely, this time inside the crescent, but his shot went wide.
A while later, a cross arrived from the left, he headed and the ball traveled throughout the small area and went wide.
For the third time in the match (and in the second half), Zenón left Cavani in front of the goal and this time it was the crossbar that denied the Uruguayan striker the goal.
After an exquisite filtered pass from the former Unión, the Matador made a pass before goalkeeper Fernando Monetti came out, but his shot crashed against the horizontal.
At that point, the forward could not hide his annoyance at the tremendous bad fortune.
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A while later, another filtered pass from Zenón, with a great game, left Cavani in front of the goal but the forward missed the ball when trying to raise it over Monetti who had reduced it, and the goalkeeper won the one-on-one match.
In the vain effort of that play he felt discomfort in his left thigh, he signaled to the bench and Benedetto immediately entered, to complete a black night.
"We all miss goals, which are going to go in. There are moments when the ball goes in and sometimes it doesn't. You have to be calm. He is an experienced player. We know the type of player he is. Sometimes it goes in, sometimes it doesn't. You have to be calm down," warned Kevin Zenón, the figure in front of the Juninenses.