River traveled to Brazil to face Fluminense with one eye on Boca: how they would form in the Superclásico

River traveled to Brazil with his head focused on Libertadores Cupbut with a side look on the Super classic. Is that after the previous scale in Rio de Janeiro to deal with fluminenseto Núñez’s team The duel against Boca for the Professional League will come. AND Martin Demichelis wants to be in all the details.

After the draw against Atlético Tucumán, which allowed River to maintain the advantage over San Lorenzo, as the Cyclone also drew with Vélez, the Millionaire’s coaching staff is aiming all guns at the week of the biggest battle since beginning of the Demichelis era. The thing is Núñez’s team will face the toughest team in their group in the Libertadores and five days later he receives his eternal rival, in what will be the first Superclásico as coach for Micho.

“It’s important how you get to the match against Boca, but we can’t deviate”Demichelis said a few days ago. This is why the result in Brazil is not only important for the future in the Libertadores but also for arriving in the best spirit to play against a lifelong rival. For the matchup against Fluminense, River will once again have their home base after Demichelis rested the Gala squad in Tucumán for a transcendent week. And the coach hopes not to lose soldiers for the battle against Boca at the Monumental.

What’s more: up to aspires to recover players. The fact is that in Brazil they won’t have Paulo Díaz (he is recovering from a strained left hamstring) but they will do everything possible during the week so that the Chilean can be ahead of Jorge Almirón’s team. If he doesn’t arrive, Emanuel Mammana will continue among the starting eleven.

Meanwhile Demichelis already has Enzo Pérez and Enzo Díaz at his disposal, disqualified for having reached five yellow cards (in the classic against Independiente) and complied by not playing against Atlético Tucumán. Enzo Díaz will also arrive fully rested as he won’t even play against Fluminense as he owes a Copa Libertadores fixture since he was sent off in Sporting Cristal’s 4-2 defeat at the Monumental.

This way, the possible team that Demichelis thinks of playing against Boca –if they didn’t bring “wounded” from Brazil- it would be with: Franco Armani; Milton Casco, Leandro González Pirez, Paulo Díaz o Mammana, Enzo Díaz; Enzo Perez, Aliendro; Nacho Fernández, Esequiel Barco, Nicolás De La Cruz; Luca Beltran. There could clearly be some modification, according to the scheme used by the coach. It remains to be seen if he maintains the tactical setup with five midfielders (very likely) or if he plays with two forwards.

River has been training for the past two days at his property in Ezeiza, where he has mostly done tactical and ball work. He will use the same methodology, of making a cult of exercises with the ball and in small spaces, after returning from Rio de Janeiro to continue training at RiverCamp, where he will already put his whole mind on Boca.

The technical staff, in turn, will analyze in depth how to counter the virtues of Almirón’s team and how to improve your own to exploit the rival’s shortcomings. Above all, they will pay close attention to what Boca did against Racing, where, for example, Peruvian Advíncula appeared playing as a right winger.

At the same time, they will also be attentive to the arbitration appointment. Is that the actions of the referee Andrés Merlos, in the playing field of the Bombonera, and of the VAR, in charge of Leandro Rey Hilfer, in the classic between Boca and Racing, have left suspects, since Valentin Barco and Sebastian Villa they should have been sent off: both plays were against Facundo Mura, the one on the left side was hit by an iron and the one by the Colombian was hit by an elbow. However, they have not seen the red one. Just before the Superclásico.

In any case, River’s coaching staff is more focused on football. Think and analyze on a day-to-day basis. And it instills a clear idea in its players. “You have to work calmly, without losing your manners and with humility,” said Micho. In turn, he asks his players that after the confrontation with Fluminense, before questions from the press centered on the Superclásico, they make measured statements, according to River’s style and philosophy.