The constant schema changes, the lack of goal but, above all, of offensive vocation and the inconvenience of identifying a game idea caused some leaders xeneizes directly maintain that the second cycle of Miguel Angel Russo at the helm of Boca Juniors is already over. Y the defeat last sunday against Estudiantes in La Plata seems to have been the trigger.
In the middle of the complicated moment of the team, both President Jorge Ameal as the Boca board of directors and the Football Council would have decided that they will not interrupt DT’s contract, which ends in December. In this way, the only chance of exit would be through a resignation.
So things, Juan Román Riquelme and Russo himself will hold a meeting in the next few hours in which the continuity or not of the xeneize conductor will be discussed. The club vice president’s idea is not to kick him out, even if the truth is that I would be waiting for a gesture of the last DT that took Boca from the Copa Libertadores champion, in case it is agreed that the situation reached a limit.
While concern for performance is not new, the two eliminations to River (both for penalties) They gave Russo some air. Similarly, the scandalous departure of the Libertadores and the controversy over the isolation ran the spotlight for a while.
The reality marks that, after six dates of the Professional League, Boca still has not won, scored just two goals, adds 4 units and it is placed third to last in the table.
Barco tested positive for covid
In the rain, wet: Valentín Barco, Boca youth defender, tested positive for covid-19 and will continue to serve isolation that started last week for having been close contact of the archer of the reserve, Agustin Lastra, who had been infected.
The reserve campus was made last Thursday the swabs prior to the match against Estudiantes, which was played on Friday, when Lastra tested positive.
By having close contact with the goalkeeper in training, that day the defenders Renzo Giampaoli and the “Colo” Barco were isolated.
The goalkeeper Lastra had concentrated with the Primera squad the previous weekend, but in the swabs of the last Friday the tests were negative.
Barco was a starter in the team that tied 0-0 with Banfield and in the 2-0 defeat against San Lorenzo, when the First team was isolated by the health protocol for breaking the health bubble after the incidents against Atlético Mineiro in Brazil, for the Copa Libertadores.
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