Overview

• Miguel Ángel Russo missed the Defensa y Justicia match on medical orders, with Claudio Úbeda directing the 2-1 defeat in Florencio Varela.
• Úbeda and the staff granted the squad two days off, with training set to resume Tuesday at the Ezeiza complex.
• Club leadership, led by Juan Román Riquelme, ratified Russo and his staff through the end of the season and will support whatever presence his health permits.
• Boca is keeping details of Russo's condition confidential after recent hospitalizations for a urinary infection followed by dehydration and elevated bilirubin.
• The loss left Boca fourth in the annual table on 47 points, level with Argentinos Juniors but behind on goal difference, and the next match is Oct. 5 against Newell's at La Bombonera.