With his debut in the competition he is obsessed with, before his debut in the Libertadores, River Plate He slipped in the game and in the result against a rival that had won just one of its last ten games. Not only is the undefeated team losing the League Cup, but it is full of doubts for another Cup.
Martín Demichelis, after the 0-1 loss to Huracán, was asked if he thought his message was getting through to the players. And the coach responded: “Ask the players. There is an idea”… The coach was angry.
Demichelis has strange decisions. It doesn’t put together a perfect team. It changes too much. In big games he builds strong lineups. In matches that should be more accessible, he strengthens the midfield… Contradictory. With the Huracán for example I had to take more risks. And he came out with only one forward, Miguel Borja.
River grew as it bolstered the attack with the half-time introduction of Pablo Solari (he had three clear chances and failed to find the target) for Rodrigo Aliendro. And then he added verticality and imbalance when Claudio Echeverri came on for the fading Nacho Fernández. He was as right about the changes as he was wrong about the first 11.
Furthermore, the River conveys a sense of vulnerability in the back. With Huracán making a big stop in the 78th minute, Walter Mazzanti ran in alone (Nicolás Fonseca didn’t cut him off at the start of the game) and scored the winning goal. And the millionaires didn’t tie it even though they played until the other guy finished because Mazzanti celebrated by taking his shirt off and they kicked him out. Youngster Daniel Zabala’s backheel goal, disallowed by VAR for a flagrant offside, did not count as a factor.
Two days before the end of this qualifying phase, River is third in Zone A and remains in the top four for the playoffs, but it has been complicated. He was not so comfortable anymore. Perhaps the most worrying thing is the irregularity and the grayness that accentuated the arrival of Tuesday, the day of the match against Táchira in Venezuela, the debut in the Libertadores, the ultimate obsession.
Source: La Verdad
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