Ángel Romero led Boca and decided it 3-1 on Matchday 9 of the Clausura

The opening blow

Ángel Romero opened and finished the scoring for Boca: he scored at 5' and at 56' to complete a brace and set the final score at 3-1.

The first two goals came in the first half (5' Romero and 11' Enner Valencia), so the halftime score was 2-0; that fast start was the immediate turning point of the match.

How the clásico broke open

Boca took advantage of an intense start: they dominated the 0-15', 15-30' and 30-45' intervals according to the by-interval read, and accumulated 22 minutes of pressure versus 12 for Central Córdoba; that imbalance explains why the goals arrived so early.

Romero's second, at 56', sealed the outcome just as the match threatened to rebalance; from that point Boca controlled the game until the final phase, when Central Córdoba had its pressure peak at minute 90 and scored a consolation by Martín Francisco Cuitiño.

What it leaves on the table and in the clásico

This was a league match for midtable points and Boca resolved it efficiently: the goalkeeper and defense held off the late rival push and the team finished with a 3-1 final score.

The historical context matters: in 11 previous meetings Boca had 8 wins, 2 draws and Central Córdoba 1; this result reinforces that pattern and confirms the decisive factor was early dominance—measured in pressure minutes and control of the 0-75' tramos.

Practical read

The match showed 17 momentum swings, but the simple reading is Boca won for two concrete numeric reasons: they made it 2-0 before the 15th minute and produced 22 minutes of pressure that shaped the rest of the game.

Central Córdoba managed a late goal at 90' but their best moment came too late; when Boca produced the key goals it had already created the space and time to close the result. — El Profe