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Low level of players, distrust, hostile environment and a random calendar await the coach.
Atlético Nacional was eliminated in the Copa Libertadores
Photo: Jaiver Nieto / El Tiempo
By:
Futbolred Editorial
February 29, 2024, 09:40 p.m. m.
Meteorologists call a potentially dangerous event that is made more severe by a strange combination of unusually severe circumstances a ‘perfect storm’. Like this, more or less, like what is experienced today at the Atlético Nacional headquarters.
The team went out for what should have been a walk in the meadow against Nacional of Paraguay in phase 2 of the Copa Libertadores, because not only because of payroll, history and potential was it the favorite, but because it had the benefit of being two-time champion of America , having gotten rid of the ‘coconuts’ from the south of the continent, with which access to the group stage was as expected.
But the climate began to deteriorate when problems began to accumulate: Jhon Bodmer was unable to right the ship and added to his painful defeat in the League that 1-0 in the first leg of the key against the Paraguayans, which added a pressure of which The greens could no longer leave. To top it all off, upon his return to Medellín he presented an irrevocable resignation and left ‘the top in the bag’ to an employee, Juan Camilo Pérez, who never had the authority or the work time that the emergency required.
This is how, in an instant, lightning and sparks began to fall on the green house: Nacional adjusted five consecutive defeats (Three in the League, two in Libertadores), the last one very serious, because there was a lack of a plan, a legacy for the interim Pérez that would have allowed him to react better but that Bodmer did not leave because he never had a base payroll and when he best outlined it the DT dismantled it.
Then came the individual failures: goalkeeper Santiago Rojas scores unusual goals in Libertadores and in the League he is the protagonist more for looking for a fight than anything else: Bernardo Espinosa displayed astonishing slowness and Sergio Mosquera’s performance was an ode to recklessness. Edier Ocampo was no longer a reliable winger or winger (although with Bodmer he looked very good), Robert Mejía went from more to less and the forwards, starting with Eric Ramírez, had their goal closed.
In case more coincidences were needed, the experience base with Espinosa, Dorlan Pabón, Jefferson Duque, Mosquera and Pablo Cepellini, those over 30, did not have the rebellion, mental or physical, to get the boys out of anxiety and counteract the game of the Libertadores rival and of each team in the League. .
In this scenario, the purslane attack plan does not go beyond Dorlan Pabón and Mantilla launching unproductive and predictable ones for the rivals and then individual excursions, targeting caudillismo, which in such a critical situation usually ends in defeats.
The hail of the storm is, finally, that divorce between the club and its fans that ended in threats to Bodmer and his family, violent reactions outside the Atanasio, applause for rivals and total antipathy towards his own team.
And the perfect storm is consolidated with a calendar that forces Pablo Repetto to win everything so as not to commit in the end to the radical obligation that Atlético Nacional now has to be champion to alleviate, to some extent, its serious crisis.
Pay attention to the itinerary:
Saturday 2nd, visit to Junior… The ordeal of winning in Barranquilla and against a brilliant roster, say about the champion
On March 10, they host Atlético Bucaramanga… Go score a goal against this Dudamel team
On March 16, visit to Boyacá Chicó… Tunja was always a tremendous obstacle
On the 24th they host Pasto and on the 27th they host Jaguares (date pending on the 8th)… Any setback there will compromise confidence…
On March 30, he visits Envigado, a victory that simply cannot be postponed
Repetto needs to boost performance to reach that height of 26 points, because afterward the closing is very tough: Santa Fe Pereira, DIM and Tolima no one guarantees that they will balance the box. It’s pouring rain at Atlético Nacional. And that is the storm that Repetto needs to weather: is he the ideal pilot for the emergency?
2024-03-01 02:46:51
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