[Sport] You have to trust... the astrologer

[FNX Magokiler]

The fan is an irrational being by nature. Cyclothymic, optimistic without arguments or pessimistic without cause. But, first of all, irrational. Singing "I want the Libertadores" after the draw against Lanús only confirms it. Let's see: the illusion, the dream, the desire, the demand are very good. And football is the most exciting of sports because of its lack of logic. Of course Boca can beat Palmeiras, it's what we all want. But it is worth keeping in mind that he could not beat a team that did not have a win in five games, that fired its coach, who is now in the hands of an interim, in which Laucha Acosta plays as a starter - and is injured, so as not to lose the habit - and that they have a goalkeeper who was determined to score a goal with his feet in each outing. Boca couldn't beat that team. And Palmeiras, River and Palmeiras are coming again.

If it had been possible to insult each other, if the team didn't need encouragement so much, if we weren't in this decisive instance, many players would have ended up being bitched. Cavani, perhaps, the first. He was this, but this, of being whored en masse. Because individually, some surely did. There were two moments in which the fans became heated with the Uruguayan. The first, at 19 of the second half, for shooting a cross instead of kicking at the goal, already inside the area and after having cleared the mark. The second, at 30, when he had to go fight for the ball with Lema and chose to stop and not crash, protecting himself. As if he had no confidence - the first action - or as if he was afraid of getting hurt - the second. Let's see, solidarity is very valuable, as is the sacrifice of running everyone. But a striker must be selfish, aggressive, have a certain degree of malice. And Cavani, a star whose hierarchy is beyond doubt, seems to have lost all that. I would also think twice before going across to Lema, but I am not Cavani, a Uruguayan football legend. How can he not win a split? Why is he always two meters from where the ball lands? Why is he so far from the game? Even with a regrettable team from the generation like this Boca de Almirón, the forwards have their chances because they generate them themselves. The thing about Pipa is an example: a goal play was generated by old Pipa, the bald Pipa that we all miss and remember with affection: he went off the mark there.

 

 

They covered another one that he defined with a left foot on top of the man. Let's see: this in 20 minutes. Against Central Córdoba, Merentiel burst a post and Benedetto put it in at the end. Something bad is happening with Cavani. What if the Cavani we dream of lives only in videos? And if the Valencia coach is right that he is a former player? Does he have to start against Palmeiras? Will Almirón dare to take out the star reinforcement who decided to come two years late? Will Riquelme leave him?

Of course, if Boca played as badly as it did, it is not Edinson's fault. If he left this image pale and was surpassed for a long time by a lesser team like Lanús of this time, responsibilities must be sought elsewhere. If Chiquito Romero was the most decisive player on the team, against Lanús and in La Bombonera, the sign is not good. The changes continue and the team does not appear, there is no recognizable identity and this time, except in the final moment, when it generated a couple of saves from Aguerre (always with stopped balls), it was not able to corner an opponent whom in other circumstances he should have scored with some simplicity.

But this Boca won only two games of the last eleven, and their victories were against teams fighting relegation. What was seen in Santiago del Estero was positive, and in front of Lanús everything returned to normal, as Carlitos Tevez would say. That Almirón uses as one of the arguments to beat Palmeiras that "the field is going to collapse", beyond a populist statement, reveals shortcomings of another type, although no one doubts the influence of the people of Boca. When the coach himself says that the players "know how to play those types of games", what should be inferred, that against Lanús they don't know how to do it? It is to be expected that the nonsense he declared is only for the outside and that inside he recognizes, for example, that Pol Fernández should not be given more chances; that Figal must be marked -because unfortunately we do not have anyone more reliable in his position-; that Zeballos has to play on the left; that you cannot commit the stupidity of giving away the tie (where was Weigandt?); that Cavani - in case everything explained above was not understood - has to go to the bench, and in his place Benedetto must play (and if not Merentiel, who at least is not afraid of crashing); that Janson, whose goal was opened - two goals in a row - has to start.

 

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