River dreams of the hand of a Julián Álvarez who does not stop growing: national team level, goals and pure talent

09/16/2021 10:03 AM

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Updated 09/16/2021 10:03

Julián Alvarez played a soccer match for the Argentine National Team.

He also completed his best performance in the Primera de River, which added 14 of the last 18 points in dispute.

The repertoire of

Araña

is wide and he gave it away in Rosario:

goals with both legs, oriented controls, qualifications, mobility and solidarity to start the pressure in the rival field

.

For something Alvarez was summoned by Lionel Scaloni for the Copa América and for the last qualifying matches.

The same thing that Gallardo sees him - it is known that it is one of his weaknesses - is what the coach born in Pujato observes.

Obviously, they did school each of the training sessions with Lionel Messi and company on the premises that the AFA has in Ezeiza.

And there is another virtue in Alvarez: that of learning by looking.

Marcelo Bielsa, who was born in the Cordovan town of Calchín 21 years ago, did everything well in the Colossus.

He showed his face for River, who had a poor performance, beyond the win that ended the game.

Julián Álvarez celebrates one of his goals against Newell's.

Photo: Juan José García

“You learn a bit from everyone.

When I was 18 years old, I had to go up to the River First Division and I was able to train with top players.

And now the same in the National Team, when practicing with guys who almost all play in Europe, "said the figure of the night.

It all started with a great control to a pass from Enzo Pérez and a subsequent qualification to Nicolás De La Cruz for the 1-0 of the visiting team.

But River stayed and made a bad first half.

He went at halftime tying and with various concerns.

Nor had the complement started well, until the

Spider

appeared

.

And a new control was what made the difference: he took advantage of an imperfect shot from Angileri, stopped it with his right and defined a left-handed cross.

They were 16 minutes.

Society.

Alvarez and Palavecino celebrate one of Araña's goals.

Photo: Juan José García.

And a while later, he built a beautiful wall inside the area with Jorge Carrascal and the Colombian defined well before Aguerre's departure.

And at 31, the champion of America in Brazil went toe-to-toe with the goalkeeper and finished with a forehand, briefly tilting his body for his profile.

A definition of luxury, yes.

"Good,

Spider

, good"

, congratulated captain Leonardo Ponzio, who returned to play after overcoming complications from the aftermath of the Covid.

“We needed to win to stay on top and we did.

We did a good second half, the first was hard for us.

We didn't know how to control the game, ”Alvarez explained.

And he added: “The third goal left us calmer and only then did we go.

The second came as a surprise because Fabricio Angileri tried to hit the goal ”.

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