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The reasons for Atlético Nacional’s failure with Alexandre Guimarães in 2021 | Libertadores Cup

Atlético Nacional ended a semester of competition this Wednesday to forget. Eliminated from the Colombia Cup at the hands of Deportes Tolima in the semifinals, from the League by La Equidad in the quarterfinals and in the Libertadores Cup by Universidad Católica de Chile, who managed to advance to the second round after a decade of eliminations in the group stage. The team lost its way a long time ago, it has not been working and with three failures in less than five months, Alexandre Guimarães’ sports project is in quicksand. Here are five reasons for a new debacle in Antioquia.

Little fluidity of the game: They are seven consecutive games without winning and four in which they failed to score goals, the team suffered when competing, added to the lack of confidence and low levels of a large part of the squad, who ate the story of 7- 1 over Patriotas on the final date of the championship and from there, insecurities and poor planning led to two tough eliminations.

Low visitor level: The team was barely able to prevail in four games out of 15 played outside the Atanasio Girardot stadium. Nacional did not manage to level the overwhelming game he had in Medellín and when he was not a local, the team was filled with insecurities and offensive and defensive disabilities.

Aerial game and still ball: Two headaches in the game system of coach Alexandre Guimarães, the fouls in favor were balls that the rival took advantage of to rearm or carry out the counterattack, while the corner kicks were situations of maximum danger in defense and in attack they were wasted opportunities . Although the coaching staff warned that there was not much work due to the number of matches, when Nacional had more distance between matches, their game volume was lower. In the group stage, all the teams that Nacional has faced in this group stage scored a goal in this way: Nacional from Uruguay (Gonzalo Bergessio), Argentinos Juniors (Emanuel Herrera), Universidad Católica de Chile (Luciano Aued). Added to the bad starts and doubts of Aldair Quintana, in addition to the losses in the marks that those goals from the rival caused.

Reinforcements that did not provide: Jonatan Álvez failed to be the scorer for which Barcelona de Guayaquil began to miss him at the beginning of this year, Danovis Banguero failed to be that outstanding winger who shone in Deportes Tolima, Alex Castro, Jonathan Marulanda also failed to adapt and their level was very under.

Null self-criticism: Coach Alexandre Guimarães, perhaps protecting his squad, was not self-critical and did not accept the mistakes he made throughout the matches. With recurring errors and the impossibility of seeing the practices, the team was in a bubble that in this last game exploded.

A sixth issue could be the lack of confidence in several players when facing the games, there was not that leadership that in other versions of Atlético Nacional they had them and many times they got results based on that group cohesion. Waiting for an individuality to save the game is not enough. That commitment was not seen in the last games and in the end the poor results were given.

Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
En Twitter: @juanchoserran8

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