After the fall of Santiago, Battaglia thinks of the Libertadores and squints at a team that may not be up to par

The test that Sebastián Battaglia did in Santiago del Estero went wrong. Nicolás Orsini was not only the player with the worst performance in Boca’s defeat to Central Córdoba; In addition, the coach eliminated him at half-time. He actually corrected a mistake, as the former Lanús striker played in an unusual position, on the right flank, outlined from the side to the goal, when it comes to a “9” in nature. And the only thing he did was highlight Sebastián Villa for his absence.

If the Boca coach placed Orsini in that place it is to rest the Colombian and because he did not have another player with the characteristics of a winger at his disposal. Why change? “There is a lot of wear and tear, the matches are intense. We have already seen that only one team could win both matches. Argentine football has that, and it’s more evident in Boca, everyone wants to beat you.” Battle analyzed.

“We have to compensate, we also come from a midweek match. Now we play Wednesday, then the weekend and then we have a week to think about the next match again”, he concluded.

However, despite what Battaglia pointed out about the nine games in 30 days that Boca will have to face this month and the wear and tear of the squad, it is real, the real reason and purpose of their decisions have to do with the Copa Libertadores. “Usury ends up being important and always the goal and the way is to get everyone back in physical shape in order to reach the second round of the Cup in the best shape”.

On the horizon of Boca appears the first leg of the round of 16 of La Libertadores, next June 28 at San Pablo (the return will be on July 5 in La Bombonera) and Battaglia, apparently, is the only thing that interests him , what does not live it. That’s why he cares, that’s why it breaks, that’s why he speculates, that’s why he decides and that’s why it changes.

And it changes because, for example, where before he had many players, now he has very few: the Boca manager has only two wings, Villa and Zeballos, since Cristian Pavón was hanged by the Football Council in January and at the end of the month. in which he will go free, that Norberto Briasco is recovering from an operation and that Salvio has been injured.

And surely it was Toto’s tear, who has between two and three weeks to recover (will he still play at Boca since his relationship ends at the end of the month and they have not yet offered him renewal?), Who also alerted him to more to Battaglia, which has Villa and el Changuito on a glass shelf.

It will also be for this reason that in the last call he summoned the youthful Luca Langoni, the 20-year-old forward who breaks him in the Reserve Hugo Ibarra, even if so far he has not added minutes.