River Plate coach Marcelo Gallardo will take care of all the starters Saturday against Vélez Sarsfield, by the sixth date of the Professional Football League, facing the quarterfinal rematch final of the Libertadores Cup against Atlético Mineiro from Brazil, in which will seek to reverse the 0-1 visitor who suffered this Wednesday in the first leg.
“If we want to have chances, we must play a more complete game, be effective and improve in every way. It will be hard, difficult, but the series is open. It will depend on how we prepare to play with other ideas and freshness “, Gallardo assumed at press conference from the Monumental after the fall to the Brazilians.
“I have to get very fully into the development of this week for the team and try to put it in our heads that we have to be more concentrated, attentive and decisive in Brazil “, remarked the Doll.
“I have days to work and stimulate in the best possible way for the team to play a good game in Brazil. I have to be focused so that the players have answers. It is a goal, a minimal difference. We have to be more effective, it’s not out of our reach, but we have to get right “, said the River technician.
And continued: “They started the second half better. They had another position, they took confidence, he confused us and the goal came quickly with something that was hinted at. It was difficult for us to take the reins of the party, we lacked freshness to better think the game; the hierarchy of Mineiro weighed “.
Gallardo immediately acknowledged: “You have to assimilate these blows. There are many games ahead, we cannot fallWe don’t have time to keep our heads down, not to lift our legs. I have to stimulate the squad so that they do not get hit by the blows, you have to leave quickly“, he concluded.
A streak that excites
The hot streak from the millionaire coach in definitions hand in hand against teams from Brazil and away illusions with a view to the rematch of the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores against Atlético Mineiro next week.
Since that victory epic in 2015 against Cruzeiro 3-0 in Belo Horizonte until the last with Palmeiras last summer when he won 2-0, although he was also eliminated in the semifinals, Gallardo’s team succeeded several times in Brazil.
So things, Since Gallardo took office, River played eight heads-up against Brazilian teams in South American tournaments and of them he won six, four of them closing the visitor series and the rest before Paranaense, in the Monumental.
His first hit was against Flamengo in the 2019 final move in Lima, Peru, where About two hours from Gabigol they left him with second place.
The last one was before Palmeiras: after falling 3-0 at home, he went to San Pablo and got within shot of the draws after a third goal by Gonzalo Montiel, which annulled the VAR for a doubtful advanced position of the Colombian Rafael Santos Borré.
Precisely the right side traveled this Thursday to Spain to join Sevilla, a club with the fact that Montiel, 24, will sign a five-year contract. In addition, the entity of Núñez will receive 8.5 million euros free of expenses and maintains a 15% capital gain on a future sale that exceeds 11 million euros.
A muletto will go to Liniers
The match against Vélez Sarsfield for the LPF will be a test to see the performance of some players as Enzo Fernandez, Agustin Palavecino or Joseph Paradela, who could be the replacements of the suspended Enzo Pérez before Mineiro.
River’s steering wheel received the third yellow last Wednesday about the end of the match and must meet a suspension date, so that he will only be able to play for the Cup again if the team progresses to the semifinal round.
The Uruguayan midfielder Nicolas de la Cruz, while, left the field due to muscle fatigue in the left calf, but will have no problems in play Rematch.
Regarding forward Matías Suárez, who returned to play after two weeks of absence due to muscle injury, Gallardo evaluates giving him minutes this Saturday in Liniers To arrive to the match before Mineiro with more shooting.
The squad trained in the property of Ezeiza and this Friday they will be concentrated. The return of Robert Rojas and Agustín Fontana is expected, who were discharged In the past week after almost a month of differentiated jobs.
A possible team against Fortín would be with: Enrique Bologna, Alex Vigo, Jonatan Maidana, Red, Thomas Lecanda; AND. Perez, E. Fernandez; Palavecino, Paradela or Jorge Carrascal; Fontana, Frederick Girotti.