“We are obliged to be champion, but it is difficult to play like this”

Boca Live a 2025 full of turbulence. To the elimination of Copa Libertadores At the hands of a weak Lima Alliance, the fall in the Superclassic was added. Another mazazo, so much that with the team leading area A of the Opening Tournament, Juan Román Riquelme He decided to throw Fernando Gago. To top it off, after the fall in the monumental, Red framesone of the referents of the squad, dispatched with a phrase that bothered: “We owe nothing to the fans“. After the tremor and with the Xeneize waiting for the Liga playoffs against Lanús, the defender gave the face to clarify his sayings.

Red started making a self -criticism for his post -defeat statement with River: “I was wrong, I knew they were waiting for me and that I could talk about more,” he said in F90 for ESPN.

“Now we are fine, last week it was rare for us. Fernando’s departure was rare, for how it happened. Beyond what had happened in the Libertadores, we were well. We had to turn the page and continue, in football everything happens very fast. This week we are already well (thinking about the playoffs),” said former Manchester United.

The former defender of the Argentine National Team went beyond the fall with the Peruvian team that left Boca outside the Copa Libertadores: “It was not the Lima Alliance party, this comes long, for results that we fail to achieve in the previous tournaments.”

Another of the controversies that was lived after the defeat in the Monumental was given by the change of the scheme of Fernando Gago that left the traditional line of four that had been giving results by five defenders. “We are here and we follow the technician’s orders. We cannot define how a game is raised. Throughout my career I never saw it,” red defended.

“The player follows the orders of the DT, even if he has a trajectory”

The total sincerity of Marcos Rojo in his dialogue with Fernando Gago, in the previous Superclassic.

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However, the defender then accepted that he planted an objection in the week: “I told him that I feel more comfortable inside that outside, but Fer explained to me and made the decision.”

Herrón, Boca’s DT in the remainder of the Opening Tournament

Red Marcos gave details of the current Xeneize coach with the squad.

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Without margin of error with the fans, Red accepted Boca’s obligation: “We are obliged to be champion“He said, although he complained:” It is not nice to play like this, it seems that the only one that has pressure is mouth. It is not easy to play like this. I am 35 years old, but the pressure feels, imagine the boys, “Red continued.

“Here it seems that the pressure of being champion only has mouth”

Does it coincide with Marcos Rojo?

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Finally, the defender said that Mariano Herrón himself confirmed that he will continue until the end of the playoffs and said he wants revenge: “I would like to play the final with River.”