2023-09-05 18:38:31
After years of stability, triumphs and great moments of soccer by the hand of Marcelo Gallardo, River seems to be going through its first big crisis. Something that many imagined might happen at the beginning of the Martín Demichelis cycle, but that was delayed thanks to the Professional League title.
Las The first defeats generated a lot of noise in the Nuñez neighborhood and suddenly Martín Demichelis stopped being that reliable DT to become one full of doubts, with internal conflicts with the leaders of the campus.
Martín Demicheliswho is going through his first cycle as coach of a First Division team, He started the second part of the year without finding the team. Eliminations from the Copa Argentina and Copa Libertadores they did rethink the scheme and it seems lost.
Meeting with the referents and anger on the River campus
In this semester already used 21 players, did not repeat an initial formation or endorsed to some soccer players, that generated discomfort and concern on the campus, in the coaching staff and in the leadership.
After lose once morest Vélez in River’s worst game of the year once more with questioned changes and leaving key players as substitutes, DT’s relationship with various leaders on the squad suffered and there is a rarefied climate in the locker room of the last champion of the local tournament.
In fact, in the last hours It transpired that there were meetings as a result of rumors linked to relations within the group with the coaching staff and due to leaks of information regarding private opinions.
Demichelis cannot find a reliable starting eleven
In the five games he played between the League Cup and the second round of the Libertadores, River always started losing, they scored 9 goals, 6 of them from set piecescontinues with the losing streak as a visitor –won once in last 13– and made eight tactical changes.
Demichelis, in this second semester of the year, made constant changes in all lines and the most eloquent fact is that only two players, Enzo Díaz and Franco Armani, have played all five games as a starterwhich causes discomfort and doubts within the group.
For more information on this moment, Milton Casco -who started the first three games- He did not leave the substitute bench in the last twowhile Ignacio Fernández, cataloged by the coach as the brain of the team, did not start in three of the five games.
In the crossings through the Libertadores, following playing in the first leg with the usual team and a tactical system of 4-2-3-1, in the rematch he surprised with the entry of Pablo Solari for Nacho Fernández changing the ordering.
In that game there was another fact that caused controversial when due to the injury of Enzo Pérez -who was playing double five- Nacho Fernández entered and not Matías Kranevitter when the team needed a tie to go to the quarterfinals.
In addition, in both games, the team led by Eduardo Coudet he scored 3 goals from set pieces and in the rematch Ener Valencia made a difference leaning on Casco’s side, whom he replaced with Robert Rojas when he was already losing.
Start in the League Cup, with many doubts for Demichelis
After deletion and start of the League Cup, Demichelis was forced to change due to the absence of Lucas Beltrán and for the injuries to Leandro González Pírez, Paulo Díaz, Nicolás de la Cruz and Enzo Pérez.
El DT he chose Ramiro Funes Mori, Emanuel Mammana, Matías Kranevitter and Agustín Palavecino, but the team did not work outsuffered goals from set pieces once more and ended up playing with four forwards.
In the match once morest Barracas Central at home, They left the Milton Casco team and surprised with Santiago Simón on the right sideEnzo Pérez and De la Cruz returned and the unexpected change was that of Manuel Lanzini for Nacho Fernández.
Although that match once morest Barracas ended in a win, the team suffered another goal from a set piece and it was only in the second half that they were able to win it comfortably when the rival was left with 10 players due to the expulsion of Rodrigo Insua.
Finally, in the match once morest Vélez, the worst of the Demichelis cycle according to his own statements, the DT changed the team names once more and system by including Colidio and Solari instead of Ezequiel Barco and Lanzini.
Boat departurethe continuity of Nacho Fernández in the bank and system changewent on to play a 4-3-3, was what most surprised the players who showed discomfort and a very bad game in Liniers.
Demichelis has time to work
With this panorama, the start of the second part of the Demichelis cycle did not start in the best way or in the resultsnot in the operation, much less in the management of the abundance of players that the squad has.
He stopped by The FIFA date will give the coach time and work to try to find the team when he plays once morest Arsenal -the only one that beat him at home- on Sunday, September 17 at the Más Monumental for the fourth date of the League Cup.
Demichelis He has less than twenty possible matches ahead of him until the end of the year to reach the finals that he should play for having won the LPF once morest the winner of the Argentine Cup and the winner of the current Cup.
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