From unexpected scorer to captain who must seek balance inside and out: the new role of Marcos Rojo in Boca

The scorer of this Hugo Ibarra minicycle driving Boca is Marcos Rojo. Yes, your core indicator. And something else. Because with the departure of Carlos Izquierdoz it was the former Manchester United who took the captain belt and also a management that must find him with emotional balance in the game and with responsibility off the pitch.

Rojo’s decision to embrace Izquierdoz at Bajo Flores after scoring the goal against San Lorenzo had been accompanied by an attitude that invited one to think that he was looking for an expulsion in order not to face the Bombonera again after the internal episode that Darío Benedetto has externalized in the economic dispute of the Libertadores awards. However, the central one assumed all the responsibilities. Ibarra revalidated him as a bearer of the tape. And Red responded to that, though he knows he has to continue on that line for what will come from now on until the end of the season.

In addition to the goal with San Lorenzo, Rojo was the one who faced Benedetto in the locker room for the match against Talleres and asked him how he was going to resolve the penalty situation. there the Tube He gave up his post. And it was the man finalist at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with Alejandro Sabella’s national team who grabbed the post. At La Paternal, from a steady ball, he had also shown signs of a voracity for the goal that he had not had until this 2022.

Marcos is at a very good level, he is scoring goals, he must continue like this. I congratulated him at the end of the game, it is important what he does with his opponents in the opposing area, but he is also interested in what he does in ours. We are finding a way around the defense “, reflects Ibarra after the match against Estudiantes at the Bombonera. It is that Rojo sought his goal in the aerial game and found it with a left-footed shot on the corner that did not cry out for his past in La Plata, but that consolidated his good pass.

In the 55 games played with the club – he has already won two league titles – he scored 6 goals. One did it in the final against Tigre to be champion of the last League Cup. and andThe weak point is in his vehemence which led him to find himself under the magnifying glass of arbitration (with VAR) from the constant game of arms he has during the friction with rival attackers, always on the verge of leaving his team with one less man.

Before Talleres, it was he who separated all his teammates from brawls and constant complaints with the referee. On the night against Estudiantes, he brought together Alan Varela, Carlos Zambrano and Juan Ramírez for a mini interview to position himself and focus on the team’s decline. He is the voice of the team in eleven, along with Guillermo Polo shirt Fernández, who seemed to grow in responsibility upon his return to the club.