Martín Demichelis, brand new River coach Plate, assured that the club “did the best pass market in this window» with the arrivals of Matías Kranevitter, Ignacio FernandezEnzo Diaz and Salomon Rondon.
In the pre-debut press conference to the Professional Soccer League tournament, which will be the Saturday against Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero from 9:30 p.m., Demichelis agreed with the preseason and with the reinforcements for his squad.
“No disrespect to anyone, River made the best transfer market in Argentina”, said the DT. «Four arrive high ranking players and I am more than grateful to the effort of the institution”, he added.
About the Venezuelan striker, who “is about to fall”the coach considered that «Rondón and Miguel Borja can play together. They can even play either of them with (Lucas) Beltrán, who had a great preseason.”
Martín Demichelis and the debut in River
Martín Demichelis, successor to Marcelo Gallardo After his successful cycle of 8 and a half years, He said he is confident in the team for the championship that is starting and that still does not have the starting eleven because they did not communicate it to the players.
When asked about the decision to leave players out of the starting team, Demichelis was honest: “The player who is in River knows that the competition is enormous and you have to choose 11. I’m sure I’m going to be wrong and I told them, this is football and what matters is that it was a great preseason and I hope that the injured recover so that we can count on everyone”.
When talking about the first sensations in the pre-debut He said: “I’m calm, I don’t think beyond the next day, the next conversation with the players. Lunch, review the training… We will meet in Santiago in a few days with the desire and increased convictions because I’m Extremely happy with the preseason despite some injuries”.
How the River of Martín Demichelis is going to play
Regarding the game system and how River is going to play, Martín Demichelis recounted: “One of the objectives is to form a solid team thinking about attacking and looking for the goal in front and in these friendlies we are in that search and I am not going to go into the comparison, River defended in different ways in these years and the rival plays too ”.
In this sense, he highlighted:Have control of the game and feel comfortable in the two structures of the offensive and defensive phase and achieve good feelings that were seen in the friendlies and in that leading role that we are going to seek the idea is to read the game well in decision-making ”.
Con regarding the injured“Micho” replied: “The squad is huge and we are training with 21 players field due to the issue of the injured and that is why there will be no exits in this market: I love them all and thank you for the players They keep competing.”
The DT “Millionaire” did not want to go into details with the cases of Paulo Díaz, Matías Suárez, David Martínez and Nicolás de la Cruz: “(Agustín) Palavecino will be next week with all the rest and as for the other players I do not want to give details because an injury is frustrating. When I said uncertain future, I mean that it could be in one or two weeks”.
Then he did refer to Martínez for being the only left-handed central marker and he said: “We need it especially for the exit on the left, we lack that pass, that’s why we are going to play with two right-handed central defenders and we will follow his recovery so that he can play soon and be taken into account”.
And he added the name of Enzo Díaz for that position: “We’ll see with Enzo how can it be docked and he already did that of playing as the second central marker in 4 or 5 games in April and we saw him well, we’ll see how we work on it to see if we can count on him”.
Martín Demichelis and the World Cup
Martín Demichelis also spoke about the World Cup that Argentina won in Qatar 2022: “Hopefully the impulse to be world champions make us grow and they will see us all over the world. Hopefully we set an example and people enjoy themselves in the stadiums. I have no doubts that the players will feel it and hopefully it will be favorable in the game and in the matches ”.
As for the goalkeeper Frank Armani, member of the world champion squad, the coach assured that Having him “is a blessing.”
“Now everyone wants to play, they want all the training to finish and go out on the field, even more so after so long.. I take this opportunity to thank Central Córdoba that will recognize the only world champion who plays in our football (referring to Armani)”, he concluded.
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