Edinson Cavani
lived a dream night in Santiago del Estero, where
Boca beat
Central Norte de Salta
3-0
and advanced to the round of 16 of the
Argentine Cup
, where he awaits the winner of the duel between
Almirante Brown
and
San Martín de Tucumán
.
With his double - the second a collector's item - the Uruguayan striker reached his ninth goal with the Boca shirt.
It was the sixth shout in the last nine games
, an indication that he regained his forcefulness.
Far from being intoxicated by his good moment, the native of Salto gave a lesson on how footballers leave bad streaks behind.
And he explained that
the only secret is to work and work.
It wasn't magic...
“The goal does not open, we forwards make it open when we continue working.
It is a lie that opens, it is like people who wait for something to fall from the sky.
If you don't go looking for it, you won't get it.
"I'm happy, but not because I get the goals, but because the results come," explained Cavani, 37, who thinks more about the collective than the individual.
Regarding the criticism he received in his recent times of drought, Cavani noted: “What was talked about... These are things we are used to, but I am going my way, I
am working to give the best to my club, I will never “I am going to change my essence.”
And he closed: “This is a great group, of good, humble human beings.
The most beautiful thing is when you achieve a great team, and that is possible when you have a healthy group.
Here it doesn't matter who scores the goals, but rather that Boca wins and brings joy to the people
.”
🏹🔵🟡 GREAT GOAL!
⚽#CopaArgentinaEnTyCSports At 12' into the second half, Edinson Cavani made it 2-0 for Xeneize with this great goal.
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— TyC Sports (@TyCSports) March 24, 2024
The reflections of Diego Martínez
Boca coach,
Diego Martínez
, also left the Madre de Ciudades stadium happy.
For
Gigoló,
the seriousness with which they faced the match without relaxing was key, despite the fact that it was a lower-class rival - the Salteños will play in the Federal A -.
"We prepared it as we always do, since the Federal had not started we only had the information from the friendlies. We tried to see how Victor (Riggio) did in the Argentine Cup match against Rosario Central last year," Martínez started at the conference of press.
And he continued: "From that preparation it was the same as always and that doubt as to how they were going to start if with a line of 5 or with a 4-3-2-1 we could give that information to the boys and what one values most and I really feel I am very satisfied with the seriousness with which the group approached this match, the importance they gave it, how they came out to play.
It ends up seeming that logical difference in the categories but always with respect for the Central Norte boys
. Happy with the commitment and for having taken the game as a final."
Diego Martínez gives instructions to his players.
Photo: Federico Chara
On the other hand, Martínez warned about the
need to adjust the operation for the final stretch of the Professional League Cup and the beginning of the journey in the Copa Sudamericana.
"In Boca you always play finals and they are all very important games. We would have loved to be much closer to the goal of being able to be among the first four. We did not achieve it and we will look for it in this final stretch, with the start of the Sudamericana and with all the number of games that are coming up, try to get into that goal which is to be among the first four in the championship and start having a good phase of the Copa Sudamericana to move on to the next phase and overcome each stage of the competition that we have play like in the Argentine Cup," he reflected.
In that sense, he completed: "For us the most important game was the Central Norte game, so when they asked me how we had planned it, it was the same way. For us the most important game was this one, the Argentine Cup. Now is to rest and then San Lorenzo, then we will see how we will face the Sudamericana which is so difficult due to the altitude, the travel, what that logistics will mean that we are still putting together with the club. And then it will be Newell's, then It will be Trinidense and it is like that... The club we represent forces you to give every game the best you have, go out to win, leave the institution in good standing and that is what we are trying to do."
Finally,
the coach praised Cavani's constant work to reach his best form
.
"Cavani always plays for the team and the team plays for the team. I still believe that we still need to be that team that we imagine... We, as a coaching staff, try to be a team that can have control and that if that control We can take it close to the rival goal so our strikers will be much closer to converting," he said.
And he closed: "
Edi... is the hierarchy that he has
. What we like most is how he puts himself at the service of the team, how he always tries to be the example and help the team from a very humble place, beyond all his hierarchy and his career... Today he is collecting what he proclaims every day and I hope he can continue doing it. For us as a team it is very important to have one of our center forwards in the way he is."