Matías Bustos Milla
08/02/2021 16:05
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 08/02/2021 16:05
"You have to be calm, the goal is going to come because Boca creates situations ... in Juan Ramírez's play it was noted that we are in a hurry because our forwards convert, so we have to be calm
.
"
Miguel Ángel Russo's phrase after the 0-0 in Córdoba against Talleres told him the thoughts of everyone indoors and in the run-up to the Superclásico against River for the round of 16 of the Argentine Cup.
The statistics tell that Boca won just one game of the last 13 games (3-0 against The Strongest) and that he
could only convert one goal
in the backward review of six games.
He did
Agustín Obando
.
Hence the concern.
Who can score a goal in Boca?
How can you do it?
The only chance of the match against Talleres, at Mario Kempes in Cordoba, was had by Juan Ramírez, who just arrived.
Russo plans the classic against River.
The Miguel Ángel Russo cycle that began in January 2020 finds 86 points in favor.
But the interpreters who made them are no longer on the campus.
Is that Tevez (15 conquests), Ramón Wanchope Ábila (9), Mauro Zárate (4), Franco Soldano (4), Gonzalo Maroni (4) and Emmanuel Mas (1) left the club at the end of the first semester.
But it is added to them that Sebastián Villa decided not to play again in Boca tempted by a proposal that came from Belgium and with 12 goals he was one of the most profitable against the network.
And the rest?
Eduardo Toto Salvio (adds 11 goals) is still injured and Edwin Cardona (6) is doing a mini-preseason after the return of the Colombian National Team.
Boca has 66 goals off the court.
Cardona had a few minutes against San Lorenzo, but is on a physical recovery plan after the Copa América.
Photo: AFP
And on the playing field how many do you have?
Of those who usually jump onto the pitch, the player who has scored the most goals in Russo's cycle is
Izquierdoz
, with four goals.
It is followed by Lisandro López with three.
Yes, the two central markers.
Just Obando appears with two celebrations and behind him accumulate one Zambrano,
Pulpo
González, Cristian Medina and Agustín Almendra.
Drought
The absence of scoring pieces explains a good part of Boca's weak numbers in this new semester, despite the fact that the VAR annulled a badly for Pulpo González and another for Weigandt in the series with Atlético Mineiro.
In the review there are almost no opportunities to convert
Pavón, Briasco and Orsini
, who had an injury and was left out of the last games.
The youthful Luis Vázquez still did not find his scoring power in the Reserve in the highest category.
There are no more tips, because the
nine
did not arrive in this passing market.
Obando scored the only goal of the semester.
(Photo: Juan José García).
The aggravating factor of the scorers who are just in the central defense is that a good part of that history was built from the stopped ball that Cardona contributed, perhaps one of its main merits.
And the
coffee grower
is not yet under Russo's orders.
Will you put him in front of River at least on the bench?
In 2021 the three goals Superclásicos made them
Villa, Wanchope and Tevez.
Today none is available.
The opportunities that the Boca coach says his team has are really not such.
Until the game with Talleres, he had an average shot on goal of just one per game.
Against the Córdoba team, the one who tried the most was Pavón, but his three shots went five meters above the crossbar.
How will you do to hurt River in the hand-to-hand of the Argentine Cup?