Global Courant 2023-05-02 03:56:28
If he does not return with casualties from Rio de Janeiro, Demichelis already has the eleven that will face Xeneize. How does it go tomorrow at the Maracana.
River traveled to Brazil with his head focused on the Copa Libertadores, but with a sideways look at the Superclásico. It is that after the previous scale in Rio de Janeiro to face Fluminense, Núñez’s team will face the duel against Boca for the Professional League. And Martín Demichelis wants to be in all the details.
After the draw against Atlético Tucumán, which allowed River to maintain the advantage over San Lorenzo, since the Cyclone also tied with Vélez, the Millionaire coaching staff points all cannons at the week of greatest combat since the Demichelis era began. It’s that Núñez’s team will face the toughest team in their group in the Libertadores and five days later they receive their eternal rival, in what will be the first Superclásico as coach for Micho.
“It is important how you get to the match against Boca, but we cannot deviate,” Demichelis said a few days ago. For this reason, the result in Brazil is not only important for the future in the Libertadores but also to arrive with the best spirit to play against the rival of a lifetime. For the confrontation against Fluminense, River will once again have its starting base after Demichelis made the gala team rest in Tucumán for a transcendental week. And the coach hopes not to lose soldiers for the battle against Boca at the Monumental.
What’s more: it even aspires to recover players. It is that in Brazil he will not have Paulo Díaz (he is recovering from a left hamstring strain) but they will do everything possible during the week so that the Chilean can be in front of Jorge Almirón’s team. If he does not arrive, Emanuel Mammana will continue among the starting eleven.
Meanwhile, Demichelis already has Enzo Pérez and Enzo Díaz available, who were suspended for having reached five yellow cards (in the classic against Independiente) and complied by not playing against Atlético Tucumán. Enzo Díaz, in addition, will arrive fully rested since he will not play against Fluminense either because he owes a date in the Copa Libertadores since he was sent off in the 4-2 defeat of Sporting Cristal at the Monumental.
In this way, the possible team that Demichelis thinks of to play against Boca -if he does not bring “injuries” from Brazil- would be with: Franco Armani; Milton Casco, Leandro González Pirez, Paulo Díaz or Mammana, Enzo Díaz; Enzo Perez, Aliendro; Nacho Fernández, Esequiel Barco, Nicolás De La Cruz; Lucas Beltran. There may be clearly some modification, according to the scheme used by the coach. It will be necessary to see if he maintains the tactical arrangement with five midfielders (most likely) or if he plays with two attackers.
River trained the last two days at its Ezeiza property, where it did mostly ball and tactical work. He will use the same methodology, of making a cult of exercises with the ball and in reduced spaces, after returning from Rio de Janeiro to continue training at RiverCamp, where he will already put his whole head in Boca.
The coaching staff, in turn, will analyze in depth how to counteract the virtues of Almirón’s team and how to enhance their own to exploit the rival’s shortcomings. Above all, they will pay close attention to what Boca did against Racing, where, for example, the Peruvian Advíncula appeared playing as a right winger.
In turn, they will also be attentive to the arbitration appointment. It is that the actions of the referee Andrés Merlos, in the field of play of the Bombonera, and of the VAR, in charge of Leandro Rey Hilfer, in the classic between Boca and Racing, left suspicions, since Valentín Barco and Sebastián Villa had to be expelled : Both plays were against Facundo Mura, the one on the left side was hit by an iron and the one by the Colombian was elbowed. However, they did not see the red one. Just before the Superclásico.
In any case, River’s coaching staff is more focused on football. Think and analyze based on “day to day”. And he instills a clear idea in his players. “You have to work calmly, without losing your manners and with humility,” said Micho. In turn, he asks his footballers that after the confrontation against Fluminense, before the questions from the press focused on the Superclásico, they make measured statements, in accordance with River’s style and philosophy.
