A crazy championship that every day has a different pointer and in which Boca and River do not appear in the Top Ten

The top of the standings, the pride of every fan. How many children or teenagers of past generations have looked forward to the newspaper or sports magazine when their team led the championship? “It is cut and save”, it has been said. And her chest was full of self-love. Today, a click is enough to look at the positions, which are usually owned by the largest. But this Professional League, which has already consumed eight dates and starts pulsing on the ninth weekday, has another color.

In this Argentine football they dominate river and mouththe highest number of winners locally, rule Godoy Cruz, Newell’s, Atlético Tucumán and Argentinos Juniorsall with 16 points. Few in Mendoza imagined that, at this point in July, the team fighting for stay would lead the tournament. The last time it happened was in 2016, when there were 30 teams in the First Division and he was the leader in Zone 1. He is now number one because he has scored more goals (11) than Rosario (9) and Tucuman (8). despite the same goal difference (+5). The red insects they scored 12, but their goalkeeper Federico Lanzillotta went to look for more balls inside his goal (8).

behind they appear Gymnastics and hurricaneboth with 15. And only after a big one emerges, Racingwhich has 14 units, the same as Platense and Union. The teams are 9 and anyone can end up being a leader at the end of this new day which will be played between Tuesday afternoon and Thursday evening. Because, with the exception of the Globe and the Mendocinos, who will face each other on Wednesday at 21:30 in the Parque de los Patricios, the others will play against rivals who are below the main platoon of the tournament.

It is more, if the four leading the standings draw with Huracán, Rosario Central, Sarmiento and Boca; if gymnastics doesn’t defeat River and if the Academythe Squid and the Tatengue they beat Arsenal, Central Córdoba and San Lorenzo, there will be 7 leaders! before the tenth date.

Curiously, or not, that Boca are in eleventh place and River below half of the table, in sixteenth, explains this championship. so too. The two Argentine giants are betting on the international dream, that toxic obsession that mixes sporting ambition with the need for fresh dollars in the country of shares. If anything Carlos Bianchi has reflected on the impossibility of reaching the triple crown, a milestone he could boast of in 2000, when he won the Libertadores, the Intercontinental and the Apertura, it is now increasingly difficult to aspire to win two tournaments in the same semester. And that the Copa Argentina has been played since 2011. Not to mention the Club World Cup, which has been the exclusive property of Europeans for a decade. It is unattainable.

It is not compatible to jump headlong into the Libertadores or the South American and be competitive in the local tournament. Beyond the examples of Boca and River, who can still wake up already eliminated from the race outside the border, we must pay attention to the campaign of the teams that survive in the Cup among the powerful Brazilians: Students, Vélez and Talleres navigate the depths of the national championship.

The case of Cordova is dramatic. have lost 14 of 22 games in the season and that is why they occupy the last position of the general classification, the one that classifies the international cups. Pietro Caixinha He remains in place due to the quarter-final duel against the Libertadores Velez, rightly so. Something similar happens with Ricardo Zielinsky in Studentswho added 26 League Cup points in the first half and now barely succeeds 8 of 24 in play. Your opponent will be Atletico Paranaense.

The race is the only one of the greats that has started at a steady pace. He is forced by history and because he did not reach any goal in the first phase of the year: he was eliminated from the League Cup, the South America Cup and the Argentine Cup. He is unbeatable in the Cylinder, but he is not successful in other people’s rodeo. San Lorenzo and Independenttormented by their institutional crises, they try to fight.

The tournament has 27 dates and the ending of this film could be very different. But who takes away the illusion from those teams that today look at the rest from above?

There is a threat that has little to do with rivals. This is the pass market, which is still open in different parts of the region. Godoy Cruz he knows it will be difficult to keep his figure Martin Ojeda, who is one step away Botafogo from Brazil, who will pay $ 4,500,000 for 80% of his pass. In this sector, the biggest ones continue to benefit. river sold to Julian Alvarez Y Enzo Fernandezbut it invested 12 million of North American currency in Miguel Borgia Y Paolo Solari. Most have to appeal to ingenuity.