Buenos Aires, Oct 10: River Plate beat Olimpo and Boca Juniors tie with Talleres. Chilean striker Marcelo Salas' injury problems continued as he limped off in the second minute of River Plate's match at home to Olimpo on Sunday (October 5). His replacement, Fernando Cavenaghi, scored twice in a 3-0 win.
Salas, who only returned from a month's injury layoff last Wednesday (October 1) limped off with what appeared to be a recurrence of his nagging thigh problem. Cavenaghi fired River ahead 12 minutes later and scored a second from a counter-attack four minutes before halftime. Osmar Ferreyra added the third with three minutes left, one minute after Olimpo's Javier Paez had been sent off.
River, the defending champions, moved up to 13th after only their second win of the championship, lifting some pressure off beleaguered Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini. South American champions Boca Juniors, still without injured striker Carlos Tevez, stayed top despite being held 1-1 at Talleres.


Defender Rolando Schiavi put Boca ahead by converting a controversially awarded penalty in the 27th minute. The Cordoba club hit back through Maximiliano Velazquez in the second half.


LINE-UPS: RIVER: Germn Lux; Nelson Vivas, Horacio Ameli, Fernando Crosa, Ricardo Rojas; Diego Barrado, Javier Mascherano, Osmar Ferreyra; Daniel Montenegro; Alejandro Domnguez and Marcelo Salas. Coach: Manuel Pellegrini.


OLIMPO: Jorge Vivaldo; Cristian Manfredi, Javier Pez, Hernn Medina, Fernando Clementz; Pablo Mannara, Rogelio Martnez, Hernn Bujn; Leonardo Mas; Alejandro Delorte and Carlos Dur. Coach: Enzo Trossero.


TALLERES: Marcos Gutirrez; Ariel Donnet, Julin Maidana, Vctor Lpez; Cristian Devalis, Maximiliano Salas, Sebastin Carrizo, Maximiliano Velzquez; Luciano De Bruno; Vctor Piriz Alvez and Emanuel Perrone. Coach: Jos Omar Pastoriza.


BOCA: Roberto Abbondanzieri; Pablo Jerez, Rolando Schiavi, Nicols Burdisso, Luis Perea; Ral Cascini, Sebastian Battaglia, Diego Cagna, Miguel Caneo; Pedro Iarley and Franco Cangele. Coach: Carlos Bianchi


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