The DT was satisfied with the delivery of the team in front of The Strongest. This Sunday he faces Hurricane: what changes are he planning.
River returned from Bolivia and already puts his head in duel with Hurricane of Sunday at Professional League, in which he is the leader. The excursion to La Paz left a bad taste, but Martín Demichelis chose to look at the full glass. It is that the technician was satisfied with the attitude shown by his team, beyond the specific errors.
“I’m leaving dissatisfied with the result, but not with what the 90 minutes were and the delivery of the team, which went out of its way to go looking for the tie. We generated a large number of goal opportunities, but unfortunately we failed to be forceful”, said the coach after the 3-1 defeat against The Strongest. And that is the message that came down to the campus.
Demichelis was satisfied with what his team showed throughout the game and regretted, of course, the situations that River missed, mainly at the beginning and in the final attack, when he could have been within shot of the tie if he hit a header or if the rival goalkeeper did not have a magnificent night.
“I think we played very well for 70 minutesWe even dominated the last half hour, which is when teams not used to the altitude tend to suffer”, Micho analyzed. And he added: “We were always protagonists.”
With the result set, and because of the way in which the rival goals arrived, perhaps the intention to be the protagonist at all times, especially in adverse contexts such as playing at 3,600 meters above sea level, perhaps it should be reversed. , without implying sacrilege.
In any case, the analysis, because it deals with height, is relativized. In fact, Lucas Beltrán, for example, acknowledged that he played “dizzy” throughout the game. So the difficulty exists and it is great.
It also happened to River de Gallardo in his debut cupbearer when they fell 2-0 with San José de Oruro, in what is a new coincidence between both cycles: they played the first game of Libertadores and lost it by a difference of two goals at altitude, one in Oruro, in 2015, after almost 4,000 metes above sea level and the other, this Tuesday, in La Paz, at 3,600 meters.
Now, River will seek to quickly digest the defeat, without despairing of specific situations, such as inaccuracies or the fact that the team has left spaces that were taken advantage of by The Strongest.
It is believed that on the plain River will once again show the good individual levels and the structural harmony that it exhibited during March, which led it to win five consecutive games – four in the League and one in the Argentine Cup -, to which no goals were scored be the leader of the tournament.
On Sunday, at the Palacio Ducó, it will be an important test to confirm the leadership, against a rival that is trying to become strong at home and can be a tough obstacle.
Facing that match, Casco and Nacho Fernández will surely return to the title. And perhaps also Leandro González Pirez, since he is currently the best-performing central defender at River. At the height, Mammana and Paulo Díaz offered no guarantees. And the evolution of Nicolás De La Cruz is expected, who once again had problems with his right knee. If he doesn’t arrive, Santiago Simón, who trained well at Hernando Siles de La Paz, could have a chance at him. And if not, Esequiel Barco is another footballer who signs up to go from the start.
