2023-09-05 06:15:00
Something broke. The last bad results seem to be, in part, a consequence of a break in the dressing room of River between the coaching staff led by Martín Demichelis and the referents. What happened? The footballers did not like some of the coach’s decisions and the discomfort increased after the eliminations in the Copa Libertadores, the Copa Argentina and the defeat against Vélez in Liniers, for the 3rd date of the League Cup. The team no longer responded like the last champion. And other mental and group failures were added to the football failures.
“It was one of the worst games since I was DT of River, if not the worst. Surely there will be a combo in which as the first person in charge I will have to search, investigate, find the key so that River returns to being what we have seen in a large part of the last months and in the previous tournament. We have to get out of this situation”, the millionaire coach had said at the press conference after the defeat against Vélez in Liniers. “We played a bad game again and I’m worried”, he insisted. His team had just lost to Argentinos (2-3) and Vélez (0-2), both games away from the Monumental. And he just won one match in the last 12 for the local tournament (against Banfield).
50 days ago river He was doing the Olympic lap against Estudiantes at the Monumental, three dates in advance. He drew applause for his blistering pace and the number of goals he scored. Everything was recognition for Demichelis and the players. There was talk, rightly, of an “amplified squad”, which had not only managed to form an overwhelming starting team, but it had extended the variants to 14, 15 headlines. It was even said that Marcelo Gallardo’s replacement had handled the transition between the most winning DT in millionaire history and his current management very well. Enzo Pérez seemed rejuvenated and even hung on Demichelis’s shoulders to celebrate goals. It was all a party. Until now.
Nacho Fernández, Enzo Pérez and Franco Armani, among River’s references after the defeat against VélezLA NACION / Manuel Cortina
The first thing that happened is that there were many changes from one game to another, hierarchy reinforcements that came to strengthen an already extensive squad. From the starting team, he only emigrated Lucas Beltrán in a millionaire pass to Fiorentina, from Italybut beyond the assignments of Robert Rojas and José Paradela to Tigre, Demichelis still had too large a squad to face a single contest.
There were references like Ignacio Fernandez and Milton Casco that they are no longer the undisputed starters (in recent games Santiago Simón appeared as a right back), the same as Esequiel Boatwho had been one of the most unbalancing players of the champion. Enzo Perez He suffered greater wear and tear after the injury suffered by Rodrigo Aliendro and that role did not end up being well complemented by Nicolás De la Cruz or Agustín Palavecino; and offensive midfielders were added who, in themselves, have their own weight from their last names at the Monumental: Manuel Lanzini and Gonzalo Pity Martínez.
Milton Casco, one of the references that is no longer the ownerRodrigo Nespolo – LA NACION
Jonathan Maidana He is not a starter either but he is also hardly playing. Too many names for few places. Problems with goals conceded from set pieces also affected the performance of Frank Armani. How many of them would appear in the River 2024 planning? Few, as Demichelis would be projecting.
After the questions received by the fans after losing to Vélez, Demichelis explained: “Always when you lose, the best player seems to be outside, on the substitute bench. We came from having a great second half with Facundo Colidio y Pablo Solari. They trained phenomenally, they are usually unbalanced and today they did not have a great night”, he defended himself before the consultation for the changes in the attack zone to play in Liniers. Esequiel Barco, for example, started from the substitute bench. And Agustín Palavecino was the starter.
After consecration in the Professional League, Demichelis’s River chained several consecutive blows on three fronts
“The solution cannot always come from the changes. I am concerned about the mechanism and operation of the equipment, which I didn’t like anything today”, sentenced Demichelis, with a grimace for the results and for some individual performances of his team. “It is not the first game that we are not visiting. We went back to not getting three away points and not being us, ”he continued.
This lack of identity was seen in several of River’s last games and especially against Vélez it was translated into the statistics: it took more than an hour of the game with Fortín for River to hit the rival goal. It was 17 minutes into the second half, and thanks to a shot from Barco. “Chila” Gómez cleared the ball to the corner with a great save. It was the only arrival of a team that was used to thrashing.
This point did not like the staff either. In each statement, they feel that Demichelis does not finish taking responsibility for River’s defeats and that, in the future, Plan a renovation to lower the average age of the campus. The millionaire coach never spoke publicly about this, but the players are thinking about big changes for the 2024 team. Those leaks would have reached the players. That’s where the conflict broke out that Demichelis will have to solve shortly.
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