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BUENOS AIRES, April 18 - South American champions
Boca Juniors won their seventh domestic game in a row to stay
top of the Argentine Clausura championship on Sunday. Goals in each half from midfielder Javier Villareal and
striker Antonio Barijho, standing in for injured Guillermo
Barros Schelotto, gave Boca a 2-0 win over midtable Nueva
Chicago. Boca are four points clear of their arch-rivals River Plate
whose 2-1 at San Lorenzo took them second while Velez Sarsfield
went third after continuing Estudiantes's miserable spell. Velez won 3-1 as the team led by Argentina's victorious 1986
World Cup coach Carlos Bilardo extended their winless run to
five games and dropped to 18th in the 20-team table. Mariano Pavone gave Estudiantes a first-half lead but headed
goals in three minutes by striker Rolando Zarate, his ninth of
the championship, and defender Maximiliano Pellegrino put Velez
ahead. Pellegrino scored again the in last minute as he took
advantage of sloppy defending uncharacteristic of a team coached
by the usually ruthless Bilardo. Colon, under former Colombia-coach Francisco Maturana, threw
away a two-goal lead as they were held 3-3 by Quilmes. Two goals by Maturana's compatriot Giovanni Hernandez and an
Esteban Fuertes free kick put Colon in control left after Pablo
Garnier had given the Brewers a first-minute lead. But Quilmes, down to ten men in the 43rd minute when Chilean
midfielder Rodrigo Melendez was sent off, hit back with two
goals in six minutes from Ariel Lopez and Rodrigo Brana. The derby match between Rosario Central and Newell's Old
Boys ended in a goalless draw. Talleres, who led the championship from the first day until
last Sunday, dropped to fourth after losing 3-1 at Racing Club,
who are coached by Argentina's 1978 World Cup goalkeeper Ubaldo
Fillol.
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