And Ole even hinted that the pairings where fixed, to give Boca a leg up. Six days rest and the possibility of playing a team already out of the running in the last match.

To answer one question posted in the original article, if teams are tied on points at the end of the liguilla, goal difference (during the liguilla) will be used, then goals scored, and THEN, if they’re still level, results between the teams during the Apertura proper (Boca would beat San Lorenzo on this criteria, whilst Tigre would beat both Boca and San Lorenzo).

And thanks for the link Daryl, glad as ever to be of service!

The first is the high degree of competition between clubs of different economic situation. People from all over the world pay some attention to who plays for Boca, because Boca is an exporting machine. Players like Tevez, Gago, Riquelme, etc were always easy to watch on TV because Boca spend a fortune on TV sponsorship every year.
But players like Sand (Lanús), Berggesio (San Lorenzo) or Lázzaro (Tigre) are not that easy to remember, although they are as good as the best.
This Argy league, with all its problems, is so competitive it’s scary.
San Lorenzo was originally going to be a super team with Ramón Díaz at the helm.
He brought D’Alessandro and Placente among others, the hoopla was big until Mr Díaz decided to leave the team for more dollars in Mexico.
D’Alessandro, Placente and other players left San Lorenzo in a situation everybody described as terrible. Santiago Solari though, stayed with the team.
But then, along came coach Miguel Angel Russo, and with a lot of hard work and a good amount of Argy football, they started to win games.
Boca, meanwhile had lost their chance to make a run for the Copa Sudamericana.
They were 11 points behind the leader in the Apertura and lost a number of important players to injury. (Palacio, Palermo, Paletta, Cáceres, Morel Rodriguez, etc) and their most important player, Juan Román Riquelme has not taken a break since well before the Olympic Games.
Boca only bought one player, Luciano Figueroa. The rest are kids from La Cantera, like Forlín, Dátolo, Viatri, Noir, Vargas, etc.
Boca won many games by one goal but they fought and earned a spot at the top of the board.
Tigre, on the other side is an amazing story. A club that has nothing, no bench depth, no money, and its history is more related to 2nd category football years.
But they got a very special coach in Diego Cagna, who organized them and showed them that big teams have nothing on them. They lost “the respect” and won game after game, to be today dreaming of greatness for their first time in history.

Now when we take a look a the three coaches involved in this tiebreaker, we notice the level of high quality football they bring to the championship.
Boca’s coach, Carlos Ischia has been for years Carlos Bianchi’s first assistant.
Diego Cagna (former Boca captain) used to be “Bianchi’s man on the pitch”.
And Miguel Angel Russo, a superb modern coach a la Pekerman, who fears no one and instills confidence in his players.
These three coaches, in my opinion, are a good example of why argy football is so competitive.
The all bring good old attacking football to their teams, like argy football should always be played.
And more than ever, I notice that aside from the big few European clubs we all know of, Argy teams have nothing to fear. Argy football is alive and well, even when AFA is run by a dictator who won’t go away and in his best dictator ways is now preparing his sons to follow his act.

Argy football has something not every league has much of: “FOOTBALL”.
Saludos