Matías Bustos Milla
08/05/2021 2:22 PM
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Boca Juniors
Updated 08/05/2021 2:22 PM
In this Boca still under construction after a huge replacement of its squad that lacks gameplay, offensive forcefulness (he scored only one goal in the last eight games) and triumphs (he won one of fourteen),
the pair of centrals seems to be the base from which to stop this new team of Miguel Angel Russo
.
Of them, caudillos, firm, captains, for the rest.
Rojo and his goal celebration in the penalty area.
(Photo: Marcelo Carroll).
The series against Atlético Mineiro that VAR defined with the goals canceled against Boca, had already left a first positive balance. It is that
Marcos Rojo and Carlos Izquierdoz could with Hulk
, the best of the Belo Horizonte team. But it's not just about what they do on the field of play. In the last days there were several footballers who highlighted that "the group is very strong, the things that happened to us strengthened us and we are committed".
One,
Izquierdoz, captain for years and praised by Juan Román Riquelme for his professionalism
.
The other,
Rojo,
arrived in January, but
in charge of convincing Agustín Almendra to play again, to return to training before the preseason and also capable of demanding from the victory that we still have to continue "putting in without giving anything away
.
"
Izquierdoz and Rojo, together always accompanying the team.
(Photo: Marcelo Carroll).
"Humility, family, commitment, loyalty. This is Boca", was the publication made by Pulpo González, perhaps the third leg of the leadership of the blue and gold wardrobe.
But the message was replicated in most of the accounts, those that in the last transfer market dispensed with those that had millions of followers for the boys who begin to have thousands each time they play.
Izquierdoz also got his penalty.
(Photo: EFE).
So far this semester
, Rojo and Izquierdoz shared the field against Atlético Mineiro, Talleres and River. And
Boca did not score goals
, again with Agustín Rossi under the three sticks as a key man. But Rojo and Izquierdoz are also technicians on the pitch, capable of scoring when a teammate is out of focus or ordering the full-backs without as much shooting as Weigandt and Agustín Sández.
In addition to kicking (and converting) in the penalty shootout,
Rojo and Izquierdoz won every match of the night against Brian Romero
. And although the former Manchester United could be expelled by a kick to the back of Julián Alvarez that Patricio Loustau did not observe. Achieves? No, but Russo weighs from them the energy and pulse he wants from the rest of his team. The fans, in the networks, even praise him for that video that Red went viral with a fist blow to the security officers of Atlético Mineiro.
The arrival of the former Manchester, in January, also allowed Miguel Ángel Russo to put into operation a tactical modification that the club had not allowed for years: the five-man line, with three centrals.
He decided to use it in the first Superclásico of the year and always repeated it against River and Independiente.
To the point of supporting it with Izquierdoz, Zambrano, López or whatever.
From back to front, without so much talent but with more claw, the small (and only, for now) certainties of the new Boca begin from the center-backs.
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