The new Boca de Battaglia: youth, changes in all lines and the bet on another 9

08/18/2021 13:07

• Clarín.com

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Updated 08/18/2021 1:07 PM

If it is taken as a reference that in the last game, the sad defeat against Estudiantes, he could not even kick a shot at goal or that in the last seven games he could only score one goal and that of the last 16 games he could only win one, against The Strongest,

the stick of demand that Sebastián Battaglia will have to submit to at the beginning of his cycle as a coach at Boca offers a double challenge

.

On the one hand, you will know that you are faced with a team that gave much less than expected and that the expectations placed on its potential have possibly been exaggerated.

But at the same time,

any new trait, hint of improvement, entry of new and restorative faces that may appear under Battaglia's wing will represent a fresh air

that the team, the club and also the coach need to think in the medium term.

In that challenge, the youth players will logically be the cards that the new DT will play, since he knows them for having directed them in the Reserve and several of them have already shown themselves to be up to the task when they had to jump to the main stage.

💫 Seba Battaglia, day 1. #VamosBoca 🟦🟨🟦 pic.twitter.com/FV8jkEYCFm

- Boca Juniors (@BocaJrsOficial) August 17, 2021

In the first practice there were already examples.

Thinking about Board of Trustees,

Luis Vázquez, a center forward who stood out in the youth team and has not yet achieved continuity in the First Division, appears as a starter

.

In rehearsals he was the man most advanced in an attack completed by Cristian Pavón and Norberto Briasco, who was questioned in his presentations for his little offensive voracity and is more used to being a companion of the classic 9.

In that role so talked about in Boca World in recent years, where Wanchope Abila did not manage to establish himself as fixed, Mauro Zárate and Carlos Tevez alternated and Franco Soldano failed to fit in, the chance would come for Vázquez, 20, born in Recreo (Santa Fe) and that he arrived in Boca in mid-2019, at the hands of Oscar Regenhardt, and after having started his career as a Board of Trustees.

If scoring goals is the team's main pending account so far this semester, generating dangerous actions is also a must. And there also Battaglia could put his file with a youth to try to oil the operation.

Aaron Molinas, 21, of Lomas del Mirador, was tested as a starter

in part of Wednesday's morning practice. If he plays, he would leave the Briasco team and it would be a classic 4-3-1-2, the scheme with which the Reserve lived the most games, which has just come out as runner-up.

According to the variants that he showed in practice, in the midfield there would be two undisputed pieces: Agustín Almendra and Juan Ramírez.

It remains to solve who will be the central midfielder

.

Will Alan Varela, who was conspicuously relegated after his good performances, return?

Will Esteban Rolón continue?

Will the Colombian Campuzano enter?

Or will it be played by the 19-year-old Ignacio Fernández, who showed personality and played a great game in the remembered 0-0 against Banfield when all the Boca starters were serving isolation?

These unknowns will be revealed on Thursday, in the last soccer rehearsal for the clash on Saturday at 20:15 in the Bombonera against Patronato.

In defense, except for an unforeseen event, there are no doubts: Agustín Rossi will be the goalkeeper and there will be a line of four with Luis Advíncula, Carlos Izquierdoz, Marcos Rojo and Agustín Sandez, another of the kids who stepped firmly in the highest category and with the arrival of Battaglia wins the pulse of the position to Frank Fabra.

"Here is a group of very good professionals and guys that we already had in the reserve. The idea is to move forward and get to know each other as quickly as possible and make it difficult for me to put them on is important for the kids and also for the grown-ups. We will work on the idea that was being oiled with the boys from the reserve. And we will do it with a team that proposes and goes to the front, that thinks about the rival goal and is the protagonist, "said the most winning footballer in the club's history in his letter of public presentation as a coach.

Come on Seba!

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- Boca Juniors (@BocaJrsOficial) August 17, 2021

The young and the great.

Getting that puzzle together will be the key for the cycle to begin to take shape.

Battaglia knows that he will need the results, but he is also aware that the team needs to give a new, renovating image, with performances commensurate with its squad and a much friendlier game in view of the one it has been showing.

The closest example is at hand, with the departure of Miguel Russo, despite the fact that he won two local titles, eliminated River twice and was the last DT champion of the Libertadores.

"With Román (Riquelme) we talk continuously on the premises and we are in permanent contact, but beyond the responsibility that I have, I will also enjoy this moment. And I do not want to comment on the past but look forward to the future ... Afterwards , the player who wants to be here will stay, because we know what glory is in this club, but today you don't win with the shield. And the fundamental thing for that is to build a strong squad, to defend to the death the colors of the club more important of Argentina. And for that you have to have clear objectives and work according to what is intended ", summarized Battaglia.

And he begins to show his stamp.

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