Boca Juniors earned a deserved 2-0 home league victory over River Plate in Sunday's Argentine Superclasico, extending their bitter rivals' dismal run with goals from Exequiel Zeballos and Miguel Merentiel. The defeat leaves River mired in a slump, having lost six of their last seven league matches as they sit sixth in Group B of the Clausura competition with 21 points, 10 adrift of leaders Rosario Central.

Boca, meanwhile, notched a third straight league win to move top of Group A with 26 points and secure an automatic place in next year's Copa Libertadores group stage, climbing to 59 points in the overall season table. A scrappy first half offered little in the way of clear scoring chances until Boca grabbed the lead in stoppage time when Zeballos capitalised on sloppy River defending, c

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