Match Report
2 points and 1 places separated them: Boca Juniors 1st with 13, Nacional 2nd with 11. The last five rounds placed Nacional no better than 13th for form, against 2nd in the standings. Per game in the league, Boca Juniors were scoring 1.5 and conceding 0.33, Nacional 1.5 and 1.17, against a competition average of 1.3 goals per team per game.
Boca Juniors carried an 8-game unbeaten run into this.
Estadio Alberto José Armando in Buenos Aires, capacity 54,000, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-2.