River had a bittersweet semester with losses that hurt because the “sacred fire” did not appear in crucial moments

The pale draw as a local against University marked the end of the first part of the year to River Before disputing the Club World Cup In the United States. And left a bittersweet taste. Maybe, more sour than sweet. It is that although there were a training team, some objectives were not met and in general, the squad was in debt in the game.

River had an irregular walk. After a lazy start in the first months of this 2025, he managed to recover and change the tuning from mid -April. Your moment premium It was for a month, until mid -May, in which the team found a high beak. However, In the last two meetings, before Platense and Universitythe arrow went down again and worried. It is that the doubt forward is whether it is just a passenger downturn or if there is effectively a setback in the game.

That is one of the issues he spoke Marcelo Gallardo at the press conference after a draw with University. “We didn’t like to end the game like that. It’s not what we want to express”said the Doll Whoever thought that his team must resume the path of what he did during April and part of May, to be able to enhance.

The River coach made his own balance: “It was a first part of the year in which it cost us to enter the dynamics. Then the game arrived, we could do it in a good way when it arrived, the team began to show a different football, generated an enthusiasm in the people and was slowed by the Platense match, which did not allow us to reach one of the goals, which was to play the final. That dynamic we find has to continue flowing at this stage after the short break. That will be the stimulus for the second semester. That does not cost us and can continue flowing “he analyzed.

It is that River cost flows in this first part of the year, especially in the first months. At first, the matches were heavy. The yields were unstable and the soporiferous encounters. He could not create goal situations in quantity, he was not blunt and effective above, he kicked little to the arch and was allergic to the goal. In fact, in the first 17 games of the year, River barely scored 15 goals. That changed from the encounter against gymnastics when the arch was opened. From there, he made 25 goals in 9 games.

Although the aim changed, anyway, it did not achieve the goal of being in the definition of the opening and obtaining the title. He was eliminated by penalties before Platense. The karma from the 12 steps (he has been lost consecutive definitions) had already taken another title, that of the International Super Cup, played in March in Asunción, against Workshops, which won that Cup.

So the blows that River had more in the semester for rivals and contexts and because the sacred game and fire did not appear in those crucial moments. With the walking walk I was to wear everything in the opening and rise with the trophy but did not happen. And that is added that, due to coordination errors and defensive failures, he granted his opponents possibilities. In turn, the lesions were also a problem. There were more than 20 since the year started. In fact, there are still recovery players such as Gonzalo Montiel, Paulo Díaz, Maxi Meza, Matías Rojas and Leandro González Pirez.

Not everything was negative, of course. Franco Mastantuono explodedthe 17 -year -old jewel with the future of selection and world figure. And he was a great architect of the turnaround that River had given. In the peak of the team, Gallardo found an almost memory formation and the Núñez set had a win, good visitor matches in the Copa Libertadores, he classified first in his group and won the superclassic in the Monumental with authority. After all, that was the great joy of the semester.

For what is coming, Gallardo will seek to rescue the best of the month in which this River identified with the River of his first cycle and with what they want to see the fans to finish molding a reliable and convinced team, that he manages to capture his idea.