Beccacece makes a substitution “alla Bielsa” in the 20 ‘of the first half and turns the game around

Some coaches have in their codes that they will not make changes in the first half of matches that are not due to obligation: an injury or a red card that requires filling a gap. Claudio Borghi is one of them: “Kill the player”. But the school of Bielsa says something else: who does not remember that friendly match between the Argentine national team and the Netherlands in 1999 when Bielsa eliminated Ortega and inserted Guglielminpietro but transformed him back thirty minutes later.

“I should have messed with Bielsa,” declared the former Gimnasia and Milan many years later.

It can be said that Sebastián Beccacece is one who follows “the Bielsa method”. That’s when they played this Monday 20 minutes into the first half of the Defense and Justice match against Aldosivi, he eliminated defender Juan Rodríguez and included midfielder Alanís.

The decision was made by the coach after the second goal of the team from Mar del Plata, by Bautista Kociubinski. This, despite Rodríguez having not had direct responsibility for that goal, despite him having done it in the 0-1 with the complicity of Cardona: Braian Martínez entered alone in the center of both central defenders and defined before the exit of Unsaín.

Attention, it was not necessary to change the system in the face of the negative result: Domínguez went from midfield to right-back and Colombo to play from central. And it must be said that the team started to work better as Beccacece’s men drew before 20 minutes of the second half.

Some time earlier, in the 39th minute, Aldosivi was left in ten for Boolsen’s dismissal, which facilitated Halcón’s work.

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Rodríguez is 28 years old, he has been in Defense since 2019, he arrived from San Martín de San Juan. From the beginning he has had a lot of continuity but now he is not a regular in the team: he had only played in the previous two Professional League matches.