Boca, isolated: before Banfield would have to put a team full of youth, with Cardona?

07/21/2021 20:03

• Clarín.com

• sports

Updated 07/22/2021 9:22 AM

After the controversial goal disallowed against Mineiro due to the poor performance of the VAR and a long night in Brazil, Boca arrived in Argentina and received another extra-sports slap. Despite what was being said from Belo Horizonte, the Government, through the Ministry of Health, determined that the delegation broke the health bubble and must isolate itself for seven days. The drawback is that the team has two games ahead of it for the local Professional Football League tournament, which it should face with youth.

After the fall against Mineiro, Boca had two important duels on his agenda at the start of the only competition he faces this semester with the Argentine Cup.

Especially if you take into account that he has not yet assured his presence in Libertadores 2022, a contest that offers him a good sum of dollars.

Xeneize comes from drawing on the first date with Unión in Santa Fe and now it was their turn to play on Saturday against Banfield, in the South, and on Tuesday against San Lorenzo, in La Bombonera.

Of course, the idea was to settle on the table ...

In the event that the LPF does not consider Boca's request to postpone the matches, Miguel Ángel Russo will have to put together a puzzle to design a team that goes out onto the field, with the regulatory need to have 7 professionals among those summoned.

Boca spent the night in a bus so as not to break the health bubble.

The government did not contemplate the situation he suffered in Belo Horizonte and he must respect a seven-day preventive isolation.

Photo: Alex De JESUS ​​/ AFP.

In total, Boca will have isolated 24 footballers from its squad, all those who returned from Brazil and Frank Fabra, who traveled to Colombia due to the death of his father and is still not in time to leave his bubble.

They must rule out the injured Agustín Almendra and Eduardo Salvio, so the list gets shorter and shorter.

Not even Russo will be able to be in the bench of substitutes, logically.

The one who will wear the first diver would be Sebastián Battaglia, who is a coach of the Reserve and already knows how much the kids of the club can give him.

Among the names that Battaglia will have to resort to is an archer, Agustín Lastra, and several kids such as Eros Mancuso, Valentín Barco (the 16-year-old boy who made his debut against Unión on Friday), Ezequiel Fernández, Rodrigo Montes, Gabriel Vega and Gonzalo Escalante .

And an internationally renowned figure, Edwin Cardona, who postponed his return from the Copa América and did not reach the cross against Mineiro but could be part of the local tournament.

A real puzzle that would be added by boys from the fifth division, most of them making their debut for the first time with the Boca jersey.

It is worth mentioning that since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, other teams suffered situations like these, from decimated teams in official commitments.

The most remembered case is that of River, who had to use Enzo Pérez as a goalkeeper after a covid outbreak, but it also happened to Sarmiento de Junín, Gimnasia de La Plata and Banfield himself, to name a few examples.

However, the particularity here is that Boca has no detected infections but that the isolation is only preventive after what was his trip to Brazil and the subsequent incidents that delayed his return.

Everything will be defined between Boca, the AFA and the LPF authorities in the next few hours.

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