Boca: Ibarra recovers players and a question arises: do you put everything into Copa Argentina or save for the championship?

Mouth he’s fighting everything. And he does it with a team that has suffered many victims in sensitive areas (small town, Zeballo, sounds cool, Briasco Y Red were few in the semester) compared to what will be a last part of the season, compressed in its calendar since Qatar World Cup. In this scenario, Ibarra’s team overcomes obstacles with appearances of grown-up footballers and others who have stood up in complex situations. But now, at the time of the definition, it’s time for the DT. DoBet to put everything into each game or start choosing?

The Argentine Cup It is not a seductive tournament for Boca. He has already won it in his last edition when he feels like entering the next one Libertadores Cup was the priority. Now that goal had already been achieved in May. Economically it does not even represent a grand prize: he receives 1/8 of what he had already insured for playing the 2023 international tournament. And in the last game, against Agropecuario, he added another negative asterisk: the serious injury of one of his figures (Zeballo). That’s why the match against Quilmes is in an uncomfortable context, having to face it with a physically exhausted team but now also with the possibility of being champion in the Professional League.

The initial idea was to play with the majority of the owners before Quilmes in Mendoza. But now Ibarra hesitates between forcing some surnames or keeping them to receive Vélez alla Bombonera on the weekend. It happens with the central defenders (Figal and Rojo who was ultimately out of love), who are at the limit and demanding them right now can lead them to lose them for the rest.

Does the Argentine Cup deserve so many risks? Everyone inside the Boca Predio de Ezeiza thinks not. Because many young people can play again like they did against Godoy Cruz like Aranda, Sández, Langoni and maybe even Maxi Zalazar will have his chance if one of them is not full. Benedict, meanwhile, want to take advantage of him so that he has minutes of competition after losing weight due to a stomach virus.

The huge number of games in a short time is added to Boca in a different scenario from the rest: together with the Tigre, it is a squad that hardly had rest or preseason after having been champion of the League Cup. Unlike the others, who have rested, this Boca has not stopped playing week after week and at this point of the year the wear has begun to show. To make matters worse, October will mark a double date to be played during the week as well. And if Quilmes is overtaken, there could be a heads-up against River for the Argentine Cup, always with extra tension. What’s more: in November it is already guaranteed to play the Champions Trophy final against the winner of this championship.

If the deadlines are met as planned, Sebastián Villa will be available to the group in two weeks. And then it will depend on his leave when Ibarra decides to give him the opportunity to return to the team, right in the moment of definition. Another moment in which the DT will have to choose. As was going to happen with Sergio Romero, who was about to make his debut against Quilmes in the Argentine Cup but his appearance at the Boca goal will have to be postponed due to the cleaning that will have to be done on his right knee, the one operated on in March. Will Rossi be able to save or will Javier García have the chance of him again, as he did against Ferro?

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