River still enjoy Nacho Fernández, the irreplaceable player who missed the Gallardo cycle the most

Ignacio Fernandez He went to the Rossi Center, had a medical examination and then signed the contract River. Thus his return was officially completed. And so, Martin Demichelis He will have not only his second reinforcement, but the brains of the team.

say that the Micho has to his brain is not extravagant. He also has nothing to do with the nickname Nacho has earned, a product of his cleverness to play him. He is, neither more nor less, that he has the conditions to be the organizer of the River game, which he has already shown before going to the Atletico Mineiro from Brazil in early 2021.

In addition to wearing jersey 26, Nacho ended up wearing jersey 10 at River. And it wasn’t accidental. He became the man through whom all the balls passed to carry out the attacks. And once he left, Marcelo Gallardo found it difficult to replace him.

Upon his arrival at River in 2016, Nacho was a player who played on the wings. Later he became a more internal midfielder, who was asked by Gallardo to move from area to area. That he wasn’t content to help recover and initiate attacks, but rather asked him to trample the rival area.

Thus, the goals began to arrive. He scored 31 goals in 186 games. But there is one fact that marks the importance for the game. Gave 27 assists. That is to say, he is a player who contributes to the goal pass, an aspect that in the River counts as much as the goals.

Nacho Fernández’s last functions with the River shirt were at the beginning of 2021, in the semifinals of the Libertadores Cup of the 2020 edition, in which Núñez’s team was eliminated with Palmeiras.

In the next liberators, River suffered it. Is that Muñeco’s team met Mineiro in the quarterfinals. And Nacho converted the goal that gave the Brazilians the victory (1-0) in the first leg Monumental. In the second leg, won 3-0 by the Belo Horizonte team, Fernández did not play as he was sent off in Núñez.

Now, River will have fun with Nacho again. Which returned to Argentina a few days ago, after the top management of Núñez and Mineiro agreed and the deal was closed at 3 million dollars, which included the debt of the Brazilian institution which was around 1.1 million dollars .

Thus, time has moved on. It is that Fernández’s return was scheduled for 2024 when the contract with Mineiro expired at the end of 2023. But between the seduction operation that began when Nacho came to play Leonardo Ponzio’s farewell on September 21 and his personal situation with his pregnant wife and the desire to have his daughter in Argentina, everything accelerated.

This Wednesday, Fernández had a medical check-up in the morning and then went to the Monumental offices to sign a contract until December 2025. The “brain” has returned to River. And he is ready to join the work with the team led by Demichelis.

Demichelis’ first game

Martín Demichelis will make his debut as manager of River. This Thursday, starting at 21:15, on Star Plus, his team will face Chilean Unión La Calera at the La Pedrera stadium in Villa Mercedes, San Luis.

River has moved 105 kilometers since working in Potrero de Los Funes, where he played the first part of the preseason. And everything is ready to face the first meeting of this new era.

Since the substitutions will be unlimited, Demichelis will put in two different teams at all times, thus evaluating almost all the variations that his squad has on the pitch.

In turn, he warned that it will not be necessary to take whoever starts the match as a starter or who enters the second half as a substitute. What we can begin to clarify is the chosen scheme: for now, in training in San Luis he tried with a 3-1-3-3 and with a 4-3-3.