2023-05-07 11:14:38
Less than a month ago, a newspaper headline quoted “River Munich”, the team that after crushing their opponents left nothing behind. The reference, obviously, played with the virtues of the Millionaires and the German team, unbeatable in their country, always a powerful force in the Champions League, which until not long ago sheltered Martín Demichelis, the River Plate coach that after a stumbling start, he redirected his leaders through a space that has only been showing them images of joy.
It’s true. The defeat against The Strongest in Bolivia, for the Copa Libertadores and against Arsenal and Belgrano, in the Professional League made us think that the transition in Núñez, after the “Gallardo” cycle, looked traumatic. Faced with this incipient adversity, Justiniano Posse’s man did not back down. He arranged pieces, improved the level of some players and began to gain a good distance from the rest in quality of play and good results.
That spring seemed to come to an end a couple of days ago in the win against Fluminense, in Rio de Janeiro. The 5-1 scoreline raised doubts about “Micho” and about the reliability of a team that is enough and even seems to have plenty of resources in domestic commitments, but which has a hard time showing solidity when it leaves the country.
The opposite version of his process is expressed by Boca Juniors. Almost evicted to fight for the local title in the middle of the tournament, he aims all his cannons at the long-awaited “seventh”, the Copa Libertadores that would allow him to equal Independiente as the most winning in America. In the midst of a bad campaign for his ever greater claims, and after laying off Néstor Ibarra, the Football Council’s commitment to his successor, Sergio Almirón, after a brief period of adaptation in which things did not improve, seems to show his positive side. The voice and optics of the former coach of Lanús have already been evidenced in the position of Advíncula as a right midfielder, the firm commitment to Valentín Barco, a youthful left-back with good management and effective contributions when he crosses the middle of the field, and in the help generated by the noticeable improvement in the performance of the rest of the members, a specific case of Chiquito Romero and Pol Fernández, Luis Vázquez and Alan Varela.
that will be the context of a superclassic that would be even better if Matías Suárez, an exceptional player, a manager of actions within the reach of few, who seems not to have enough weapons to face his physical ailments, and who is only taken advantage of by Demichelis.
Beyond this desire for a black palate, almost impossible to fulfill, the same desire extends, in a less pretentious way, to the rest of the players. In a tournament that follows the trend of those of the past, in which exhausting running around prevails over calm lucidity, in which it is common to see many footballers with their legs stiff from the effort and very few with a fresh mind and inspiration latent, it would be positive if the two most popular clubs in the country offered through their teams an aesthetically pleasing match, something more, or much more than the usual generous effort. That the sacrifice does not limit a spout; that discipline does not coerce a dribble. It is necessary to continue understanding that soccer at a professional level should continue to produce the same sensations that we felt when we were kids and we dreamed of playing whatever classic it was.
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