The impressive streak of Miguel Angel Russo that breaks ERA records in the history of Boca

Oscar Barnade

11/02/2020 17:48

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Updated 11/02/2020 5:48 PM

The streak of Miguel Angel Russo in this 2020 goes straight to the history books of Boca, in an atypical year and overshadowed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Only 15 official matches played

If compared with the first 15 meetings of all the coaches the club had, these figures are above all.

Boca had 49 coaches who directed 15 games or more.

Some, like

or Carlos Bianchi, had three stages.

Others, like

,

,

,

,

and now Russo, two.

is one step away from achieving what nobody could:

.

This is the first data to take into account of the campaign.

The first who went 15 games without losing since his inauguration was

in the 1943 tournament. That year

began

, who had come from the previous season, but after losing to River 3-1 on the fifth date, he left office. .

After a two-game interim by José Malfitano, on June 6

debuted

with a 3-1 victory over Independiente.

After putting together 11 wins and 4 draws for the First Division tournament, he lost undefeated on October 12 to Platense (3-4) for the

Cup, a national cup like the current one.

Platense beat Boca 4-3 for the Ramírez Cup and took the undefeated cycle of Alfredo Garasini.

Alfredo Di Stéfano assumed the leadership of Boca at the beginning of 1969. The first four games were for the Argentine Cup at the time.

Then the Metropolitan.

After 10 wins and 5 draws, he lost undefeated to River (0-2) at the Monumental.

Now, in case Boca does not lose next Sunday against Newell's in Independence Park, this will be the first cycle in which a DT was undefeated in the first 16 games.

Alfredo Di Stéfano's team in 1969 arrived undefeated in 15 games and lost it at the Monumental to River.

As with Garasini's team in 1943, the current coach's harvest is 86.6% of the points at stake.

Then there were two for victory and now three.

Left behind, with 83.3%, Mario Fortunato's starts in two stages: the first, in 1930, when he became the first coach in the club's history, and the second in 1946. Di Stéfano had a similar percentage in 1969 and Silvio Marzolini in 1981.

With the Fortunato teams, this Boca shares other records: they are the only ones who won 12 of the first 15 games.

Garasini in 1943 won 11, the same as Marzolini in 1981 and José María Silvero in 1970. In all cases, official consecutive matches are counted without distinction of competition.

Of the 15 games of the current management, 7 correspond to the League tournament, 2 to National Cups and 6 to the Libertadores.

With a clarification: in two of the away games for the Cup,

on the bench (Libertad and DIM), since the coach could not travel because he was in the risk group.

But the most striking fact of this stage is that he barely received 4 goals

.

In the first three games

saved

(one goal conceded), another 11 Esteban Andrada (two goals conceded) and on Saturday

(one goal).

Another start that received few goals in the first games was that of Di Stéfano in 1969, with the enormous

under three sticks: just 7. Jorge Habegger's cycle, in 1993, suffered just 8 goals in the 15 games of start, but at the same time he barely scored 10. Meanwhile, in 1991, the first stage of

Tabárez received only 9 goals.

The current coach inherited a team with defensive solidity from Gustavo Alfaro's stage, but he had an unforgettable final stretch in the Super League that allowed him to make the Olympic return and now maintains a good general structure, with a goal, at the restart.

Even so, Russo warned after the victory against Lanús: "

."

Finally, although the 32 goals scored are not on the podium in history -48 made by Fortunato's team in 1930-, it is one of the highest effectiveness of the last 15 years.

The first cycle of Bianchi, in 1998, had 36 goals in favor and that of Alfio Basile, in 2005, 34.

Even Russo outdid himself, because in 2007 he had started with 32 goals.

Insatiable,

, now he's going for more.

FK