“Gallardo needs to talk to Guardiola”, Oscar Ruggeri and his opinion about Julián Álvarez and the continuation of the River

On a mobile from France, with the Eiffel Tower in the background, Oscar Ruggeri his companions were delirious ESPN along with their circumstances. Directly, face to face and frankly, the former Argentina National Team defender gave his perspective on Julián Álvarez, who yesterday was sent off with 6 goals in the match in which River defeated Alianza Lima 8-1 for the final match. of the Group Phase of the Copa Libertadores.

“Ché, are they giving the kid two balls?”began by saying with a pig’s head, which refers to two hat-tricks by the attacker who became the first player in River history to score six goals in the same game. And immediately, the discussion turned to a question: Will Julián Álvarez be loaned by Manchester City or will he join under Guardiola?

Oscar Ruggeri’s wrist did not tremble and he gave the solution to Millionaire so that they can enjoy Julián’s goals longer: “Only one person can unlock it.. Gallardo speaks directly to Guardiola. If he speaks, he will not listen. Recontra will listen to him, ”he said.

The star panelist of the program, led by Sebastián Vignolo, argued about the competitiveness of South American soccer and compared it to other mid-table clubs competing on the Old Continent: “The river is the most important thing you can get if you are not going with a competitive team of greats in Europe. Let him play the Copa Libertadores, which is competitive, this is the best we have in South America. How can they send him to a club that only competes at the local level? “

“For me, they will give him up, unless Guardiola prepares Julián to put him in the games and prepare him, but I don’t know what Guardiola wants. If I’m Gallardo, I’m telling you, calling that I. to him every day to tell him ‘Hello, how are you, how are you, how nice of you to bring Haaland, you’re a genius, you won’t leave the child a little,’ “he laughed.

Julián Álvarez scored six goals

River was 121 years old this Wednesday. And Julián Álvarez, the great Cordovan forward, made a tremendous gift: he scored six goals in 8-1 against Alianza Lima and sealed his name with fire. became the first football player in Núñez’s club history to score that amount in a match. Yes, a performance of 10 points to resonate with the concentration of the Argentine National Team in Bilbao.

Time will tell whether Álvarez will go to the World Cup in Qatar or not. If you don’t, it will be an injustice. Since the Calchín -born is a national team footballer, there is no doubt. He will join Manchester City in July of this year and he will likely switch back in his first months as he joins a winning and hierarchical squad, which he will join alongside Norwegian Erling Haaland. There will be speculation after filming and adapting to a big league. But the highest presentation it has nationally, locally and internationally, should not be left out.

Europeans who don’t know Álvarez will watch the first goal he scored against Alianza Lima to find out where the striker is. And it was that Spider threw himself to the ground and recovered 3/4 of the field, drew a diagonal from the center to the right (he got between 6 and 3) and determined to cross after receiving millimeter clearance from Santiago Simón.

Then, Álvarez presented his entire repertoire. In the second, he connected a cross from Simón within the area; in the third, he shot from the outside and nailed it; in the fourth, he hit the goalkeeper and touched the empty bow; in the fifth, he received from Elías Gómez and stabbed it before Campos left; in the sixth and last, he received his left foot on the crescent, he went into a pure disguise, escaped the two rivals and crossed it with his left foot.

The numbers of the Cachín attacker were overwhelming and that is why it was ruled that his non -involvement in Qatar would be an injustice. At River he had 51 goals in 115 games and he is four behind Rafael Santos Borré, the top scorer of the Gallardo cycle. More statistics gagamba: he played 51 games in the 2021/2022 season, scored 36 goals and shared 11 assists.

The day was historic, of course. Álvarez became the second player to score 6 goals in the same game in Copa Libertadores history. Past? It was also the Argentine, Juan Carlos Sánchez, who in 1985 contributed that amount to Bolivia’s 8-0 Blooming victory over Venezuela’s Deportivo Italia.

The mark Álvarez achieved was not appropriate for these times. Only 5 soccer players have scored 6 or more goals in First Division tournaments in Argentina’s professionalism. In 1933, Francisco Varallo scored 6 in Boca’s 7-1 victory over Chacarita; in 1937, Arsenio Erico celebrated 6 times in Independiente’s 7-1 win over Quilmes; in 1941, Jaime Sarlanga scored 6 goals in Boca’s 7-2 against Atlanta; and in 1972, Rafael Domingo Moreno scored 6 to 8-0 from the Argentinos to Lanús.

Cordovan was very close to overtaking Juan Alberto Taverna, who holds the record for goals recorded in a game in Argentine football: on October 6, 1974, in Banfield’s win against Puerto Comercial, he shouted seven goal at 13-1 against the Bahian team.