Copa Libertadores: Boca drew goalless against Nacional and the series will be defined in La Bombonera

Boca equalized 0-0 against Nacional in the first leg of the knockout round of the Copa Libertadores, which was played this Wednesday in Montevideo.After a duel in which neither of the two teams was precise in the last meters to be able to draw differences, the series will be defined next Wednesday in La Bombonera, when the second leg is played. The notes of the night for Xeneize were marked by Marcos Rojo, who returned to play minutes in the first team after recovering from the rupture of cruciate ligaments in his right knee, in addition to the debut of Lucas Janson, one of the reinforcements who arrived at the team led by Jorge Almirón.After the draw, the Boca coach analyzed the match and said: “We came to play our game, it was complicated with the court and the wind, but we knew how to play. The match is open and in our house it’s going to be another situation with our people. It’s never easy, the matches are all complicated, it’s a historic Libertadores team, we have a lot of respect for it. We have a week to prepare well.” Before the match began, Boca fans entering Montevideo’s Gran Parque Central were repressed with rubber bullets, blows and pushes by the local Mounted Police. More than 2,000 fans were crowded at pre-entry checkpoints when security officers began firing tear gas and rubber bullets, and began beating fans with batons. This situation generated runs and left some fans injured, while it was not officially known if there were arrests.

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