After the defeat against Banfield, there are a lot of doubts about Boca: from the “Villadependencia” to the possibility of playing without the Colombian

Boca remained in a sea of ​​uncertainty after the defeat against Banfield in the South and some names have started to be evaluated after 9 games this year (7 for the Lega Professionisti, one against Racing in the Emirates and the rest against Patronato where they managed another Olympic tour) in the face of collective malfunction. And it is that Hugo Ibarra gave rise to (almost) everyone on campus and there are few who have ended up establishing themselves in a position. The goal with Sergio Romero, the rearguard with Nicolás Figal and Valdez, some movements by Óscar Romero. AND the rest, all under observation. Sebastián Villa too, yes. From Villadependiente to expendable?

The coffee farmer’s last 9 games have seen him scorelesswith only one assist and two expulsions (Racing and Talleres) but also with a level very far from what he has been able to demonstrate throughout 2022 that he is one of the most unbalanced players, to the point of putting Boca in difficulty with the situation in which he was injured (Luca Langoni ended up exploding on his site) and there was almost talk of the team’s only attacking key.

Villa must be analyzed within its complete combination. The 28 goals in 155 gamesmore than an internal and external conflict, leader in team assistsmentioned in the Selection, judicial problems, the praise of his teammates and the closeness of his mother in the last month (even managing to be at the celebrations for the last title on the playing field with him) as well as an operation. All this in the same person, who showed his best footballing side last year but never returned to his peak performance. Is it time to look for an alternative?

He only played 3 games with Luca Langoni. but the experiment of bringing extremes together doesn’t seem to bring out the best version of either. It is that unlike Villa and Pavón in 2017 and 2018, Langoni seems to be more close when it’s his turn to share the attack with the coffee farmer. And unlike Villa, the youngster scored two goals (against Talleres and Vélez) and assisted in other goals. And Briasco? As well as the conversion against Platense, his playing time against Banfield has seen him perform better than other wingers, still without Exequiel Zeballos, who has three weeks off rehabilitation.

The matches against Instituto and against Olimpo for the Argentine Cup will seal the fate of Hugo Ibarra to his game system and which players will start to give way in the hands of others. It happened in midfield with Juan Ramírez, who vacated the title, and also with Alan Varela, who are increasingly considering replacing with Ezequiel Fernández. It is that in the absence of certainties everything is being evaluated.