In today's football, computers rule. There are coaches from the old school, the kind who managed with a second coach and little else, who are lost when counting the squad of collaborators who jump into a training field today with a professional team. It could be that someone does not even know him or, at least, does not know exactly what his function is.
Some will have, supposes a coach who, yes, after each game they deliver a detailed and huge amount of information, appropriately chewed. It is sustenance, a fundamental basis in decision-making. Especially when it comes to fatigue, tiredness. If the computer says that Fulano is fresh, if the data reveals that his muscles do not accumulate fatigue, forwards. Although in the eyes of the beholder, it offers some symptom of physical decline.
Merino always plays for Real. Yes, now there is no clear substitute but that is not the point. Merino always play since Imanol took command of operations. Y Silva, too. They are probably the two least replaceable players in the gear. Even in a match in which the coach did not hide, he acted with an eye on San Paolo and offered a real opportunity to players who asked for it as Merquelanz, Silva Y Merino They wrote his name on the roster board. The canary fell before the ball even rolled. Perhaps you have wanted to run too much with him. The Navarrese has lost freshness. The computer will say what it will say, but it is not as clairvoyant as at the start of the campaign.
The meritorious squad raised their performance to remarkable levels. Aihen, Sagnan, Merquelanz… Gorosabel I had already credited it in the initial sprint of the campaign, Zubeldia it is a safe value. The problem did not lie there. The squad once again confirmed to his coach that he can sleep peacefully, that he has undoubted depth when it comes to maintaining the level of play. At least up to a high competitive height. The last jump, the one that transforms Real from a neat and superior team into an unstoppable one, is given by the higher-end nuances of the squad. And yesterday, as in several of the last games in which Real have accumulated four consecutive draws, they did not appear.
Without Silva you do not win, without Oyarzabal lack some aggressiveness, Merino misses them and asks for some air, Isak It is being handled in a context, that of the evident lack of spaces, which damages its characteristics and reveals certain deficiencies in terms of smell in the area, the instinct towards the goal in the off-marks. The most predatory Royal of the season has been sublime in her football and has caused teams to fear her now. And without that touch of delicacy, it is crashing against the walls. Yesterday, against him Rijeka, at times in Cádiz or against AZ at home. It is the next problem to be solved.