Matías Bustos Milla
10/26/2020 5:20 PM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 10/26/2020 5:20 PM
The start of the League Cup will find Boca and Miguel Ángel Russo with the idea of continuing to seek the best performance of a team that was already champion in March, which reinvented itself after the pandemic and which will plan the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores while competing in the local tournament.
The DT, in this context, has several points of analysis for this stage of the year and to draw conclusions about what is coming in each line.
The defense, entrenched
Since Russo's arrival at the club, the appearance of Boca's defense changed.
The sides became pieces of the attack and with that look Buffarini and Fabra will continue as the starters.
Jara and Mas await behind their backs, who must incorporate offensive characteristics for when they have to enter.
In the rear, in addition, there are three surnames at the same level that compete for the starting eleven: Lisandro López,
Carlos Izquierdoz
and
Carlos Zambrano
(in that order for the DT's gaze) will alternate according to the competition.
Behind the chance awaits the boy
Gastón Ávila
, with a very good performance in friendlies, and it is a fact that he will have filming in the League Cup when the rotation arrives.
Russo wants Boca to regain its functioning.
(Photo: AFP)
Variants in midfield
With the Colombian Jorman Campuzano and
Pol
Fernández
as the starting and undisputed pair in the double 5, the coach's gaze will point to
adding options
in an area that can mutate his tactical drawing according to the rival.
Capaldo will be the help wheel of any of them and little by little the
Pulpo
González
will join
.
And who else?
The Youth
Enzo Roldán, Aaron Molinas, Alan Varela
and
Cristian Medina will
have to make their way into a squad that also has old / young kids from Inferiors like
Gonzalo Maroni
and
Agustín Obando
, one of Russo's weaknesses.
Will there be a mutation to use three midfielders when it comes to playing away in the local Cup or in Libertadores?
The pieces will be moved by DT, but Lanús in Cabrero and Guidi, in addition to the visit to Rosario, may be a preview of what will be tested at the Beira Rio in Porto Alegre.
Maroni, in action against Caracas.
(Photo: Reuters)
Memory attack, but with competition
Today Carlos Tevez looks impeccable, a scorer and irreplaceable.
And his evaluation, at least for the coaching staff, goes hand in hand with the assessment of
Franco Soldano
despite his lack of goals.
So, with Eduardo Salvio also as a permanent fixture, everything boils down to a hole that could have Edwin Cardona, Maroni, Obando and at some point Villa.
But Soldano knows that the scorers live off the goal and the minutes on the court will be fading in each game if the screams do not appear.
In that case, Wanchope Ábila would enter the scene, with a better goal average than anyone but with one march less for the sacrifice task that Russo asks of his points.
Walter Bou, Mauro Zárate and even the youthful
Exequiel Zeballos
await their opportunities
.
With the idea of acquiring that voracious attack rhythm again, Boca will start the League Cup with the idea of training to face what is to come from the Copa Libertadores.
It is clear: the eventual award for being champion of this national trophy no longer needs it (Libertadores 2021 was classified as Super League champion) and that is why the horizon looks the other way.
But DT already said: "The Boca that I wanted we had in March and we must recover it."
That's what this AFA transition championship will do.
FK
