Matías Bustos Milla
08/17/2021 19:01
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 08/17/2021 7:01 PM
Sebastián Battaglia's first training session at the head of the squad had a bit of his matrix.
Is that his stability as DT in the Reserve moved her to the first words at the head of the group that this weekend will be measured against Patronato to seek the first win in ten games.
With everything to build although with faces that are already familiar to everyone: a good part of the current squad passed through the hands of Battaglia in the last year and a half.
Here he has an advantage.
The coaching staff will be made up of
Juan Krupoviesa
as it has been up to now and also
Fernando Gayoso
,
goalkeeping
coach, PF
Alejandro Blasco
and
Mariano Herrón
will remain
, who came to the club in 2020 to join Russo's coaching staff but who were not part of the same when he arrived.
Battaglia's first indications did not point to major tactical modifications: a clear message and quick work.
“His whole career was the same;
it was never effusive in triumph or chaotic in defeat
.
It's time to see how it develops in the First
”, they told Clarín from the privacy of Boca Predio.
The maximum winner in the history of Boca as a player (he has 17 Olympic laps) was presented by Juan Román Riquelme before the group.
And in brief words he also pointed out that there must be self-criticism from all parties, not only because of the departure of Miguel Russo, someone very dear to him and with whom he built a relationship of trust and gratitude.
Battaglia will assume in Boca.
(Photo: AFP)
It will be an opportunity for Battaglia, although he knows that it will not be a DT with a career on his back who will arrive to transform everything.
Step by step, he will have to make adjustments to change the course that Russo could no longer and that the players on the squad did not see with confidence beyond obvious statistics:
only one win in 16 games
, with just two goals.
They went hand in hand against Atlético Mineiro with a scandalous VAR and the triumphs in the two crosses against River gave better signals but only in the competitive, in the delivery, but not in the football field.
Sebastián Battaglia took over the Boca Reserve on January 3, 2020.
Battaglia's great challenge in these first games will be to return Boca an offensive identity that it lost since 2020, when the pandemic stopped a team that brought an overwhelming pace after winning the Super League against River. Never, with Russo, was that group the protagonist again. And now the DT who arrives from the Reserve but who already showed some clues about his own when he had to take charge before Banfield and San Lorenzo will be able to manage other types of hierarchies.
The tactical drawing can vary according to what he did in the Reserve, with a 4-3-1-2 or with three points
. The line of five defenders seemed to be buried in La Plata.
Will it be a team full of kids?
Not in the first steps, because there will be a respect for the trajectories and also because the day to day to evaluate will have a first look with a magnifying glass for everyone equally.
But Battaglia knows that his capital will be in making the most of something that Russo just put in a drop and that he dismantled at the least opportune moment.
A small precedent: in the clash against San Lorenzo,
the DT did not take long to remove Fabra and Cardona when he observed that they could not keep up with the game
.
There was no hesitation;
no further explanations were required.
Now, with other types of obligations, Battaglia will also have to deal with that.
With an advantage: the transition in the restructuring of the campus has already been made by someone else.
Everything went, almost, as thought, a few months earlier than imagined.
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