Unstable, with difficulties to find a clear path, a lot of irregularity and not unbeaten.
In just three dates, the greats are showing a tough start in the Professional League.
All lost at least one date and there was one of the four who still did not win.
Despite the fact that they boast the largest budgets, especially Boca, River and Racing, and that they generate the most important expectations due to their rich history, they have
not yet taken off.
Why did none of them cut themselves and are they victims of unevenness?
What are the main deficits that prevent them from convincing?
What do they have to adjust?
River and Independiente are going through new processes with Martín Demichelis and Leandro Stillitano.
Boca, Racing and San Lorenzo kept their coaches.
The questions for Hugo Ibarra are the same as last year.
Fernando Gago does not seem to find the return.
Rubén Darío Insua, in this context, is the one who seems to be following the same route even though he has nothing to spare.
Playing well and maintaining performance is a pending account for everyone.
mouth does not mesh
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He was a two-time champion in 2022 (League Cup and Professional League), but he never finished convincing from a strictly football aspect.
And the last three finals that he lost (Argentine Cup with Patronato; Champions Trophy and International Super Cup, both against Racing) added to the fall with Talleres hit hard.
In short,
he won two of the last nine official matches
.
And he couldn't even prevail in the summer friendlies.
The operation was always a debt.
The team depends too much on their individualities, does not have a good game circuit and suffers from some disconnections at the back.
Hugo Ibarra, to top it off, covers the kids.
Despite the fact that Luca Langoni only needed 12 shots to score 8 goals, he runs from behind.
The same for
Equi
Fernández, who has already shown that he can be useful alongside Alan Varela.
Or Exequiel Zeballos.
And speaking of
Changuito
, this Monday the news broke of a meniscal injury that will sideline him from the courts for another good time:
he will have to undergo surgery on his left knee.
Nicolás Orsini will not be able to play against Platense either due to a tear in the femoral biceps of his left leg.
Darío Benedetto is not there, who will serve the suspension this weekend, but the problem lies in the preparation.
In this item, Oscar Romero shines, but he suffers from creative loneliness.
Surrounding the Paraguayan better can be a good start.
Pol Fernández and Juan Ramírez are not at an acceptable level.
And the fans have already lost patience with the coach that Román chose.
River in search of his style
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He was loaded with pressure as a result of Demichelis's words:
"We are the team that strengthened itself the best."
And it is true, displaying his nickname, there were millionaire investments.
Nacho Fernández was repatriated, international players such as Salomón Rondón and Enzo Díaz, one of the most sought-after footballers on the transfer market, also came to Núñez.
What is missing is to mesh the pieces better.
In the search to print his style,
River needs to be more direct and has an Achilles heel in the background due to the unevenness of his defenders
, especially Marcelo Herrera and Enzo Díaz himself who had to play in the central marker position.
The goals he conceded against Belgrano and Argentinos are a testimonial.
Everything depends on the cerebral
Nacho
Fernández and needs a greater contribution from Miguel Borja and Pablo Solari.
On Sunday he broke the mechanized scheme with the entry of Esequiel Barco.
It can be a good alternative.
And the 4-3-3 seems to be the drawing that suits him best.
In this sense, he must assess the recovery of two soldiers: Nicolás De La Cruz and Paulo Díaz.
Racing and his headache
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The greatest capital of Gago's cycle was the seal of his team.
Racing had shown itself with a great volume of play based on possession, triangulation, with flyers that reach the area and forcefulness.
In this start over, he lost some of that ferocity and added a problem that is already beginning to become a headache:
recoil and defensive fragility.
They come to the
Academy
often and expose it.
The reinforcements still do not give positive signs.
Maxi Moralez shone in the final in Abu Dhabi, but has not yet managed to be the axis of the circuit in a midfield with little recovery.
Aníbal Moreno was missing, injured, Juan Nardoni was far from being the tightrope walker.
Racing has far more playable steering wheels than cutting.
And the centrals and sides are facing danger.
Paolo Guerrero needs more continuity.
They disallowed a goal, but the first one he touched sent it inside the goal.
"It is now where we need to feel like protagonists again. Win again and show again all the good we have already done," said Gago after the draw against Tigre.
Independent shuffle and deal again
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Stillitano talks about “assembling” the team with the reinforcements.
Eleven reinforcements arrived and as many left.
And he is costing him.
He tried out with Toto Pozzo, then with Nicolás Vallejo.
Kevin López seems to have found a place due to his panorama a little later.
Independiente tries to be a balanced team, but the youth team lacks greater intensity and filming.
One case is
Chila
Márquez, with a great start, but without good decisions in the final stretch of the pitch.
The defense needs to assert itself.
With Sergio Barreto out due to contractual problems and the injuries to Luciano Gómez and Edgar Elizalde, he still hasn't found the best version of himself.
San Lorenzo and its fortress
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Consciously incorporated.
Insua brought two Colombians, Rafa Pérez and Carlos Sánchez, and kept the idea.
The team has the profile that allowed them to reach the South American when they had considered adding to swell the average: sacrifice, order and effort.
It is intense, direct, it does not give away luxuries because the generation of the game depends fundamentally on
Perrito
Barrios and Jalil Elías.
Although they are at an even level, much more is supported by the dynamics of the rest.
And the team has a plus:
it made the Nuevo Gasómetro a fortress.
He's won five straight home games, where he's only lost one of the last 16 dates, and has gone unbeaten for 500 minutes.
look also
River had a day of good news: De La Cruz, Paulo Díaz returned and Borja would not be serious
Boca also suffers from injuries: 'Changuito' Zeballos will undergo surgery again and Orsini tore
The bad news that Independiente received and will force Stillitano to have to rearm the defense