09/13/2020 - 11:23
Clarín.com
sports
Two weeks went by without yours.
Although he was connected day by day, via Zoom, with group talks, with individual instructions.
Isolated for integrating a double risk group for the virus but close to the pulse of a squad like Boca's, finally Miguel Ángel Russo was able to be in charge of the team's practices in Ezeiza to begin to shape his idea for the game against
Thursday
freedom
.
With logical care.
With a fair distance: enough for a shout or indication to be heard firmly beyond a mask in between.
With a sanitary tent if necessary to stay there, where you can also follow all the movements of the team through cameras.
Even on the first floor of the complex, where in normal times the dining room used to work, you can look closely and from height at the work blocks of your players.
But Russo likes to be on the field of play.
A man of experience, with a track record but essentially a connoisseur of
Mundo Boca
, he knows that in this club symbolic gestures can be even more powerful than substantive decisions.
For this reason, in fact, he is still considering
the possibility of traveling
to Paraguay with the squad despite the recommendation of the CD and the Soccer Council is that he remain in the country, avoid trips to Asunción and Medellín and deposit in
Leandro Somoza and Mariano Herrón
the possibility of carrying out the matches.
Russo still wants to be.
Boca trains in Ezeiza.
(Photo: Boca Press).
The
assembly of the team
will be the question.
And except for Wanchope Ábila (injured), the boy
Obando
(recovering from a contagion) and Sebastián Villa (due to the procedural situation that always leaves him an unknown for each movement), the coach has all his players at his disposal, although far from the ideal of preparation that everyone imagined.
It is true: the individual hierarchy may weigh in this type of encounter, but the
disadvantage
with which Boca arrives against its rival is difficult to compare.
If he observes that his players respond from the physical and do not present discomfort, Russo can opt for an eleven with the base of the last champion of the Super League.
With Andrada in the bow, Buffarini, López or Zambrano, Izquierdoz and Fabra;
Salvio, Campuzano, Pol Fernández;
Tevez and Soldano.
The vacant place for the left-handed lane could be Cardona or Gonzalo Maroni if the coach maintains the offensive matrix, but an alternative appears: Nicolás Capaldo.
The midfielder can bring muscle and lungs to the middle of the field with Campuzano and thus, that Pol takes the left side, as he already did in Racing and Godoy Cruz.
FK
