In bad weather, nice post: Edinson Cavani and his emotional message on Instagram to leave behind the fateful afternoon against Sarmiento

Edinson Cavani knows how to turn the page. His 36 years and more than 800 professional matches support him. They spent hours of their black afternoon in the equality of Mouth against Sarmiento in the Gasómetro: he missed four clear scoring situations and was in the eye of the storm. Almost all the sports media have talked about his present, his alleged lack of confidence and his physical condition. How did the Uruguayan scorer respond? With a post on his social media in which he is seen embraced by his children in the garden of his home. “Energy that only they can give”, wrote the Matador.

Friday began with good news for Cavani: the medical tests carried out on him showed no muscle injuries. The striker requested a substitution in the return match against Sarmiento due to a strain in his left hamstring. In any case, he will most likely rest on Monday against Tiger in Victoria.

Cavani therefore would not have an immediate rematch, but could make up for it on Saturday 10th against Defensa y Justicia at La Bombonera.

The situations Cavani failed on Thursday afternoon did not go unnoticed even in his family. “The truth is that you watch the matches always expecting Edinson to give his all, but football is like that. There are moments when you have one and you score, and there are other moments when you have six, as happened with Sarmiento, and then you couldn’t score. It’s a shame. Immediately afterwards Sarmiento’s equalizer also came”, explained Cristian, Cavani’s brother, to DSports. And he added: “It’s obvious that the players of a big team like Boca have pressure. It’s a very big club and I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes. For any player who goes to Boca the expectations will be high. It seems to me that you have to” Wait for the moment, which will come. I have the positive thing that he had in many scoring situations. He needs to convert and get some confidence.”

Cavani struggles with the goal

Cavani scored just 3 goals in 18 games for the club. In the first half against Sarmiento he had a good performance, but further away from goal. But everything changed in the final part. In the 4th minute of the second half, he launched himself into space after a pass between the lines by Kevin Zenón and scored after evading the goalkeeper. He celebrated but immediately looked towards the assistant’s position and realized that he was ahead (at least a body length).

Three minutes later, the second opportunity: after another clearance from Zenón, again with the left, the Uruguayan striker shot freely, this time inside the half-moon, but his shot went wide. Shortly afterwards a cross arrives from the left, he heads it and the ball travels across the entire small area and ends up wide.

For the third time in the match (and in the second half), Zenón left Cavani in front of goal and this time it was the crossbar that denied the Uruguayan striker a goal. After a splendid through pass from the former Unión player, the Matador scored before goalkeeper Fernando Monetti came out, but his shot crashed into the horizontal. At that point the attacker was unable to hide his annoyance at the terrible misfortune.

Shortly after, another through pass from Zenón, with a great play, leaves Cavani in front of the goal but the attacker misses the ball in an attempt to lift Monetti who reduced it, and the goalkeeper wins the one-on-one match. In the vain effort of that play he felt a discomfort in his left thigh, signaled to the bench and Benedetto immediately entered, to complete a black evening.

“We all miss goals, they go in. There are moments when the ball goes in and sometimes it doesn’t. You have to be calm. He’s an expert player. We know what type of player he is. Sometimes it goes in, sometimes it doesn’t. You have to calm down,” he said. warned Kevin Zenón, the figure in front of the Juninenses.