Football. Boca Juniors beat Colon¹ 2-1 on Sunday for a win that helped them go joint² top of the Argentine Clausura table with River Plate. On the same day, their co-leaders secured their first win in their last three games when they beat Velez Sarsfield 2-0. The two Buenos Aires clubs have 15 points after seven rounds.

Hosts Boca took the lead after 23 minutes as Jesus Datolo hooked in from an angle. Fifteen minutes later Boca doubled that lead thanks to some excellent footwork from Leandro Gracian.

Colon managed to get on the scoresheet through Cesar Gonzalez's header three minutes into injury time. But it was too little too late and Boca ran out 2-1 winners.

Velez lose clausura lead

Meanwhile Velez Sarsfield hosted River Plate. The visitors pushed themselves ahead after just nine minutes as Alexis Sanchez showed some deft³ footwork and blasted the ball over three defenders⁴ to give the visitors a 1-0 lead.

Just minutes later, Radamel Falcao Garcia coolly slotted it home to put River two-up.