The strange historical mark that River achieved in the last two victories

For the first time in these more than eight years of cycle, the last superclásico in the Bombonera put under the magnifying glass like never before Marcelo Gallardo. The scheme with five defenders did not work, the changes in the second half did not make a difference and River suffered a severe blow. Despite the criticism, the DT justified his decisions and in the last two triumphs, when he resorted to the bench of substitutes, he found solutions that they remained in history.

Against Argentines they were Juanfer Quintero, Beltran and Palavecino. And before Students they joined Solari, Ship and Suarez. Thus, so far in the 121 years of life of the CARP, they are the only two times that three substitutes who came on have scored goals.

The six stepped on the grass plugged in, they were decisive -especially the trident that scored in La Paternal- and MG enjoys that necessary replacement to which he resorted so many times and did not always find answers.

After a closed first half at the Diego Armando Maradona, andhe spectacular free kick goal on the 10th -entered by Barco- was the key to lead a key victory in the fight to enter the Libertadores 2023 for the general table. And then Beltrán (Solari left) and Palavecino (Zuculini) made their contributions to settle the lawsuit on a court that is always complicated against a direct rival in the cup bid.

Against Estudiantes, when Gallardo turned around, the protagonists also restored his confidence with goals. Because of Beltrán’s muscular discomfort, Solari jumped onto the pitch and in the second half he took advantage of Nico de la Cruz’s pass to cut a drought of seven games without dippingstrange streak considering the seven goals in the first eight games with the red band.

After the contribution with the goal pass to Borja, this time it was Barco who replaced Juanfer. And the former Atlanta United, with a dribble worthy of JFQ, took a devastating left foot to convert after almost five months. And the strawberry of the dessert put it Matias Suarezwho played the last quarter of an hour instead of Borja and took advantage of the celebration to apologize to the fans for the wrong penalty in the definition before the Patronage for the Argentine Cup.

In that search for a Gallardo that you constantly need to optimize resources so that your pack of variables can match the headlines, the last six points left him with good feelings. A consolation in an adverse semester that invites hope for the future and that when defining its continuity could have an important weight in the balance.

The last River goals that came from the bench