Wherever you look at it, the party that will define Boca’s rival for the 2020 titles has the Millionaire as the undisputed candidate. The Drill goes all or nothing.
The cover letter of Banfield to dispute with River a place in the final of the Champions Trophy against Boca does not offer great expectations. With two points out of the 12 they played, no wins and one notable detail: in two of the four games their rival played they lost a player due to expulsion and yet the team Javier Sanguinetti, with a lot of time on the clock, could not make the difference and tied one and lost the other. He scored only two goals and they scored five. From whatever perspective the game is analyzed, the Millionaire He is the candidate to access the final.
“You’re never a favorite when you play against River. We’re not going to see what happens, we have the illusion of playing another final, and for that we have to play an almost perfect match”Sanguinetti analyzed with several quotas distributed in the same sentence: that of reality, optimism and hope. None of the three variables applies between the time the referee whistles the start and the end of the match. Beyond the numbers, in 11 against 11, what each team proposes on the field is what defines it and what the team showed Drill in four dates it does not have a clear game characteristic and many poor aspects.
Among its shortcomings is the definition: Banfield does not have among the soccer players one that walks straight, there are more deflected shots than those that reach their destination. You don’t have one goal, to graph it accurately. Neither among the starters nor among those who enter as a replacement. The two goals of the tournament are the responsibility of Andres Chavezstarter in the last three games.
The very poor start to the season for Banfield and the few changes made to reverse the moment show another characteristic of Sanguinetti’s team: has what it looks like, there is nothing other than juveniles to try to change the elusive proposal. The goalkeeper -of the best, despite Banfield’s location in the table- and the four in the background were repeated all the dates, just like Brian Aleman. The half plus one of the team is always the same and those who rotate, too.
Because except for the first game, when the brothers sosa sanchez They were starters, then alternated. Augustine Urzi He is no longer there – he played alone in his debut and was sold to the Mexican Juárez – and in the midfield there are no repeat companies: the expulsion of Alexander Cabrera on the first date and the lack of rhythm of Eric Remedi make that probable tandem of removal and construction impossible. There, sometimes, Alemán joins in without this being its most salient characteristic. The boy Juan Bisanz that arrived from the National Pimera non-stop, is just a bet with 193 minutes in the elite of Argentine soccer spread over three incomplete games.
“If I know that I am not going to be able to compete, I do not even introduce myself. It is a fantastic opportunity”Sanguinetti admitted in the preview of the match against River and therein lies the key. The only thing that Banfield can offer is the self-esteem of its players for giving the bump that comes from playing against a great team that wants exactly the same thing: to win to reach the final. The opportunity to get out of poverty, when no one expects them to.
If Banfield reached this instance, it was because of another team led by Sanguinetti, in his first step as DT of the club. On that occasion, they played the final of the Maradona Cup against Boca and despite the defeat -it was on penalties- that team was another: by names (the survivors of that team are Coronel and Cabrera, the latter substitute without entering), but mainly for the game That team had an idea, a scheme and a strength that made it the protagonist. Today the coach cannot remove his coaches from the condition of partner.
On that occasion against Boca, with better arguments than in the previous one against River, Sanguinetti’s Banfield consummated a draw that forced penalties, an instance in which the xeneize it was more effective.
Perhaps, with this austere version, the only thing that Sanguinetti has at hand is to hold on to the opportunity and for his team to convince himself that they are at the right time and in the right place to straighten the course, which has him 10 points behind the leader -nothing less than Lanús, with an ideal score- and just one of the three teams that share the last position in the table. Unlike River, for Banfield it is glory or Devotee. And that attitude is what can detract from the value of statistics.
