Boca is also suffering from injuries: ‘Changuito’ Zeballos will have surgery again and Orsini has torn

Boca’s hard defeat in Córdoba against Talleres de Córdoba, with a team in slow motion and without reactions to the rival’s game, has left the silence of Hugh Ibarra, perhaps in order not to throw statements or blame individual actions. It was clear that changes would come in the near future: changes that were inevitable, others that were being analyzed, and a game idea that needed to appear as soon as possible. But this Monday two injuries have since complicated the landscape Exequiel Zeballos is to undergo surgery again and Nicolás Orsini suffered a tear.

“Exequiel Zeballos has an external meniscal tear in his left knee for which he will have to undergo surgery. Nicolás Orsini, for his part, suffered a hamstring tear in his left leg”reported the club, via their official Twitter account.

For Zeballos it is a new setback, because after that explosive appearance in mid-2022, a kick in a Copa Argentina match against Carlos Casares’ Agropecuario forced him to have surgery on his left ankle and stay away from the fields for a long time.

He asked again for clues, for the freshness that can lead to the attack and because the ‘Xeneize’ attack was deflated in the three dates that were played in the Professional League. will be between two and three months of absence for the ‘monkey’.

The injury of Nicholas Orsini meanwhile, in the handful of minutes of the first half in Córdoba, he will be removed from the fields for a few weeks and his return will be more complex, because in addition to the good contributions of Michael Merentiel -assisted Langoni for the Boca discount against Talleres- will join Darius Benedict, who against Platense next weekend will fulfill his penalty and be available. Thus the center of the attack will once again show another type of competition.

The irresponsible expulsion of sebastian villa (Will he have more than one date to be a repeat offender?) It also opens the door to one end of the team early on. Given Zeballos’ injury, the only option it would seem would be that Luca Langoniwith a better presence before the goal every time it was his turn in the outcome of the last professional championship.

It seems difficult for Ibarra to move someone who, with at least more mobility, is giving him something different: Oscar Romero. Where will the Paraguayans stand in front of those led by Palermo? If it’s a link again, the one-ended 4-3-1-2 will be kept. But the DT has to change something else: the midfield.

The underground level of Juan Ramírez and of Pol Fernández also dragged towards decline Alan Varella. That’s why for the next game he is likely to enter Ezekiel Fernandez to the starting eleven and the former San Lorenzo finished at the start. What if he gets a double 5 in midfield? In the 4-2-3-1 Boca could partner Varela with ‘Equi’ Fernández, have both ends at once and Merentiel ahead. It’s risky to go back, but that’s what Ibarra felt last week before leaning towards repeating the squad in Córdoba as a way to give underperforming players confidence.

The other surname that appeared against Talleres and which could have minutes is Martin Payero, although always starting from midfield and with Romero as a pitcher. There is one certainty: Boca has surnames and variants to have different game patterns and also raise their level. Now you have to choose the coach who takes the field. And in there, the players show another image.

a special growth

Beyond the situation to lift the partial closure of the third tray of the South section, at Boca they are also preparing to receive a visit from Martin Palermo, who will arrive as Platense coach at the Bombonera playing field. And he will be honoured.

The idea of ​​the club is not only to give him a plaque and a commemorative shirt, but also to dress the stadium with crests alluding to Palermo’s rich history in the club and for this a gigantic canvas has been commissioned to welcome him to the stadium from whom he once received a bow as a gift.