Daniel Avellaneda
10/25/2020 21:13
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 10/25/2020 9:13 PM
The Libertadores has three Argentine representatives who came up to the round of 16 on their virtues, of course.
River, Boca and Racing have arguments to excite their fans.
Also, defects that must be corrected in order to continue advancing on the road to glory.
And although on Friday finally!
The Professional Football League (LPF) will begin, the focus is on the international arena.
At the end of the day, all three have already qualified for next year's Cup, the award that this new and far-fetched Argentine tournament will deliver.
Continental glory is at hand in this 2020 crossed by the pandemic, beyond the fact that the final in the Maracana will be played at the end of January 2021.
What do River, Boca and Racing have to become the new King of America?
What will they have to watch out for, regardless of the opponents on duty?
You have to take an introspective look and analyze your own strengths and weaknesses.
River: the highest scorer
Marcelo Gallardo's team was the team that scored the most goals (21) in the competition with an average of 3.5 per game.
It must be taken into account, of course, that he put 14 to Binacional, 8 in the Monumental - prior to the interruption by the quarantine - and 6 in Lima.
However, it is all a symptom of its forcefulness.
And a product, in addition, of the number of clear situations it generates: 29 in total.
Happy doll.
Marcelo Gallardo, after the victory against Liga de Quito.
His team is the highest scorer in the Cup.
It is no coincidence that Julián Álvarez is one of the top scorers in the Cup with 5 shouts.
Nor, that Matías Suárez has become
the footballer who created the greatest chances (7).
The Cordovan is also on the podium of the players with the highest number of assists together with
Nacho
Fernández (3) and only below
Rony
, from Palmeiras.
Numbers that mark, in short,
the offensive voracity
of the
Doll
, who knew how to give Álvarez a boost to boost the attack on board the 4-3-3 and even found a good replacement for
Nacho
Fernández, beyond his different characteristics, in
Santiago Sosa
.
Although he is a central midfielder, he is showing the ability to play sideways.
"We defend very high and when we are not aggressive, we suffer. And if we do not have that aggressiveness, possibly they will generate us as Liga did, which came to us on several occasions
," Gallardo commented after the 3-0 against Liga De Quito. be his Achilles heel, something that he corrected with the entry of Sosa.
These are the spaces offered by a team that bets on the attack.
Athlético Paranaense already noted.
Afterwards, the award-winning coach will have to assess how he overcomes the loss of Lucas Martínez Quarta, who was transferred to Fiorentina and made his debut this Sunday.
In individual terms, he has two full-backs from the National Team: Chilean
Paulo Díaz
and Paraguayan Robert Rojas.
The squad is short and no reinforcements arrived.
Mouth: solid back and explosion forward
The clean and jerk he took with Miguel Angel Russo in the last seven dates of the Superliga lit the way to the local title.
In the resumption of the Cup, however, Boca had chiaroscuro.
From a good duel against
Libertad
in Asunción, he went on to two games with uneven levels - despite the victory against DIM - to close with a remarkable performance against
Caracas
in the Bombonera.
Kabbalah dress?
As in 2007, when the Libertadores won, Miguel Russo wore a clear pilot.
Here, together with Salvio, scorer of the Cup.
Your best card is under all three suits.
Esteban Andrada is the goalkeeper who kept his fence undefeated the most times in the group stage (5) over Brazil's
Vanderlei
(4) and
Weverton
(4), from Gremio and Palmeiras.
Also, the one who received the fewest goals: just one, in his debut against Caracas in Venezuela.
All a guarantee.
Without going any further, on Thursday he covered a penalty at 14 minutes that Robert Hernández kicked.
Boca is the team with the best dribbling average (almost 17 per game), key to winning the individual duel and generating the imbalance.
It is a plus point, but it can also be confusing: it reveals some flaws in the construction of the collective game.
There is time to find the best performance because it has a wide and rich roster of variants.
Eduardo Salvio - along with the kid Álvarez de River, at the top of the gunners - and Carlos Tevez are in a great moment.
And against Caracas, the coach who won the sixth Libertadores in 2007 gave flight to Edwin Cardona.
His panorama, added to Frank Fabra's decision to project himself, can make up the absence of Sebastián Villa.
The Colombian striker, anyway, could be taken into account again in the round of 16.
“The Boca that I wanted I had in March. Now we are recovering little by little ”
, declared Russo.
In this is the coach who must seek the greatest fluidity in the game as a whole.
Racing: with possession but little goal
The statistics do not allow double reading:
Racing is one of the best teams in the Libertadores.
He scored more points than River and Boca, but by goal difference he finished second in his group, below Nacional.
That is why he must face Flamengo, no less.
The champion of America is coming and it is quite a challenge.
Ultimately, a large opponent is the best measure.
For better or worse.
Active and committed.
Sebastián Beccacece, the Racing coach.
Lots of possession and precision.
Little goal.
Behind
Independiente del Valle
(66.7%), the
Academia
is
the team that has the ball the longest (65.8%)
and also one of the most accurate in the passing category (495 per game).
In this last item,
Leonel Miranda
and
Nery Domínguez stand out
, one with 3.5 key passes every 90 minutes and the other with long balls (almost 8).
And as a result of this style of play with possession and focused on attack, Racing generated 23 clear chances, just like San Pablo - already eliminated - and under River (29).
Although there is a deficit here that Sebastián Beccacece will have to solve: he missed 19. Among them, two penalties:
Nicolás Reniero
against
Alianza Lima
and
Héctor Fértoli
against
Estudiantes de Mérida
.
There were 9 goals that gave him 5 wins in 6 games.
Few, beyond the points, according to the number of situations he manufactured.
The acceleration he showed in the match with the Venezuelans was offset by the entry of Lisandro López, which gave the game another time.
Thinking a second before executing is usually the greatest virtue to unlock matches.
“We won five out of six and the one who did not win we were dominant. The team represents the Racing fan very well, ”
said Beccacece.
From the conviction and that
"passion"
with which he described his players, he will have to work a hard game with Flamengo.
FK
