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Barcelona loses Maradona Cup on penalties to Boca Juniors

 

Boca Juniors beat Barcelona on penalties to guarantee the debut Diego Maradona Cup in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday later a 1-1 attract typical time.

Goalkeeper Agustin Rossi saved Matheus Pereira's punishment before Guillem Jaime bursted over to hand Boca, who scored every one of the four of their spot-kicks, the triumph.

 Ferran Jutgla had given Barca the lead right off the bat in the subsequent half, yet Exequiel Zeballos evened out with 15 minutes to go to take the game to a shootout.

The match, which occurred at Mrsool Park in Riyadh, was organized to respect the late Maradona, who died on Nov. 25 last year.

Maradona, considered probably the best player to at any point play the game, played for both Barca and Boca in an expert vocation which ran from 1976 to 1997.

He played twice for Boca, somewhere in the range of 1981 and 1982 and again somewhere in the range of 1995 and 1997. He joined Barca from Boca in 1982, enjoying two seasons with the Spanish club prior to getting paperwork done for Napoli.

Barca mentor Xavi Hernandez exploited the game against the Argentine group to hand a presentation to Dani Alves, who got back to the club at 38 years old last month.

The Brazil global can't play seriously until January when the enlistment window opens re-opens in Spain, yet he could play in Tuesday's presentation.

Alves was one of 11 changes to the Barca side which drew with Osasuna on Sunday as Xavi picked to keep the vast majority of his crew new in front of Saturday's LaLiga game against Elche at Camp Nou.

A cagey first half, wherein Alves was the best player, opened up later the break, with Jutgla, a late spring marking from Espanyol, opening the scoring in the 50th moment.

Philippe Coutinho took care of an Alves cross however it was missed by the arbitrator, permitting Jutgla to turn and fire in his first objective for Barca.

Ilias Akhomach and Jutgla botched opportunities to twofold Barca's lead, while Neto did well to keep out Sebastian Villa before substitute Zeballos' turned home Frank Fabra's cross to take the game to punishments.

Marcos Rojo, Carlos Izquierdoz, Cristian Pavon and Aaron Molinas all scored for Sebastian Battaglia's side, with Matheus and Guillem missing for Barca.

Source: ESPN

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