Maximiliano benozzi
08/03/2021 15:20
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 08/03/2021 3:20 PM
Matías Suárez had a pending account that he wanted to settle in this new crossing of River against Boca for the Argentine Cup.
The Cordovan was in debt in the superclassic duels because he felt that he had not yet had his great match against the eternal rival.
Will not be able.
You will have to wait for another crash.
The forward will miss the match due to a strained left adductor that he suffered last week with Lanús, and River may suffer without him on the pitch.
Without Suárez,
River loses the best striker in Argentine football
.
And to a player who at any time can generate danger for rivals, given his great technical quality to start or finish plays.
In addition to his technique to control the ball and his assists, at the beginning of this semester he contributed a lot of goals and put together a lethal duo with Braian Romero.
The departure of Matías Suárez, injured, against Lanús.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll.
Suárez scored three goals and five assists in five games at the start of this second half of the year, and with the River shirt he already
has 28 goals and 26 goal passes
(in 85 games). In addition, he participated in the plays of 9 of the 12 goals that Gallardo's team scored this semester. And in the first part of this 2021, he did not play much. Between the synovitis in the right knee, the isolation by close contact (of his wife) of coronavirus and his own contagion of Covid, the Cordovan was, in an interrupted way, almost two months without playing. And River was irregular. The team felt his absence.
This new injury occurred to Suárez in the match with Lanús last Wednesday in the Professional League. At 15 minutes into the second half, he pricked and felt pain in his left adductor muscle. The next day, medical studies showed that the River forward suffered a grade 1 injury, which would be a strain, which requires at least ten days to recover. They waited for him until Tuesday but the pain continued and Gallardo did not focus it.
"I feel that I was in debt in the games that I played against Boca," Suárez admitted in a talk with
Clarín
two months ago, while he was spending his vacations in Córdoba. At the same time, I was looking forward to this clash for the Argentine Cup. "Playing those types of games is the best. And the desire to play against Boca is always there. It motivates us all, both us and them. Any player likes to play a classic, what you experience before those games is unique, all are preparing for these games, "said the Cordovan in that interview.
Suárez played five classics against Boca, of which River won one, Boca another, and the rest were tied.
In three of those classics he was a starter and in two he entered the second half.
And the only good performance was in the first leg of the 2019 Copa Libertadores semifinals when Gallardo's team defeated Gustavo Alfaro's 2-0 at the Monumental.
In that meeting, the Cordoba assisted Nacho Fernández in the second goal.
In the last Superclásico, that of the coronavirus outbreak of the River campus, Suárez could not be because he was infected.
Now, he had a rematch for the Argentine Cup.
But a muscle injury left him without that possibility and he will have to see it again from the outside.
Suárez's replacement
Julián Alvarez will be the replacement for Matías Suárez.
A man from Cordoba for another from Cordoba: born in Calchín, a small town of 2,000 inhabitants, he has a great chance to show his full potential.
Julián Álvarez played a good game against Huracán and won the position.
Photo: ALEJANDRO PAGNI / AFP.
Alvarez, one of Gallardo's favorite youths, was already a starter in the last Superclásico, in which River played with a team decimated by the coronavirus outbreak that the squad suffered.
He played a good game and scored the goal that led the game to the penalty shootout, which Boca finally won.
Alvarez had a great game on Sunday against Huracán.
He knew there was a chance to be against Boca from the start
and he took advantage of it
.
Now, the footballer who made up the squad of the Argentine team that is the champion of America in Brazil will have a complex challenge: to make sure River does not miss Suárez.
At least for 90 minutes.
On the other hand,
Paulo Díaz
could play apart from the trauma to his right leg after a blow he suffered on Sunday with Huracán, for which he came out in the first half.
And there is a doubt in the midfield: Jorge Carrascal or José Paradela.
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