Boca de Martínez plays better and better: after the trial by fire in Rosario, ratification is needed against Trinidense for the South American team

Víctor Hugo Morales, in the days when he dedicated himself to sports stories and not politics, led every attack of the blue team by shouting “and Boca vaaaa”. He extended the last letter which predicted a play that could end in a goal. Héctor Caldiero, another historic sports narrator who followed the Xeneize campaign until his death in 2011, told him “Little mouth.” And while the relationship between the colors and their fans is unbreakable, it’s not always as strong with the team. Ultimately, players and coaches are birds of passage. Some will remain in history and others will die painfully and ingloriously.

The management of Juan Roman Riquelmewho is in his fifth year – his first as president – He had five coaches: Miguel Angel Russo, Sebastián Battaglia, Hugo Ibarra, Jorge Almirón and Diego Martínez. The headlines were won, of course, with that first flash on the eve of the pandemic. However, Only in 2024 does he seem to have hit the mark with the coach. At least in an aspect no less important than the result for many of those who drink the Bombonera on drinking nights, as they will experience today against Trinidense, or on the afternoons of the local championship.

Boca plays better and better. And the historical criticism that today has obscured the victories, privileging individuality over collective functioning, has remained in the background. There is the equipment. Societies flow. Martínez managed to give it an identity.

“People identify with what the boys give on the pitch. The players also gain more and more confidence. To achieve our goals we must evolve as a team,” said the 45-year-old coach from Rosario. the victory against Newell’s.

When the question that the fans in the stands and the analysts outside the grass asked themselves was “What does Boca play?”, today the answer is very clear. It is one of the teams with the longest tenure, with the volume of football of its midfielders and the strength of the situations it generates in every match. It has “shine,” the word Martínez used to refer to plus this is given by the presence of Guillermo Fernándezbut he had already won since he chose young blood for the midfield.

Cristian Medina (21 years old), Equi Fernández (21) and Kevin Zenón (22) are immovable. In Pol’s absence, Jabes Saralegui (20′) did not feel the pressure to replace the captain on the right. Mauricio Benítez (20) also proved capable of entering the central circle when the situation required it (today he would start in place of Medina, who suffered a knock). And if the core of the team works, the paths open up.

Boca has dynamics and change of pace not only because its midfielders are young; furthermore, due to the predisposition they must enter the area. Medina and Zenón, above all. Equi is a clean start, a distribution that also goes far. And as the player himself said, the symbiosis with the coach is fundamental.

“The coach gives us this identity and gives us an important way of approaching every match and every training session. We must continue on this path. The team has done an excellent job as a group, in terms of permanence and recovery. This makes us very strong” and we need it a lot,” Fernández said.

Forward, Edinson Cavani’s door has been unlockedwho will also play tonight, Miguel Merentiel is an increasingly complete player who doesn’t just thrive on finishing and Luca Langoni scored again after a year, right in a key phase.

Boca has reasons to dream of success. The game, this time, helps above the figures.