Luis Miguel Rodriguez Cruz
Saturday, January 16, 2021 | 06:27
Bravos likes to surprise us, for better or worse. On the first day, it gave us light, we liked it sometimes and, despite Pachuca’s agonizing equality in the last minutes, Tena’s team was recognized for the great control of the game against a rather complex scenario. That day, everyone groped and understood perfectly what to do. But not yesterday. Bravos shrank yesterday as time went on and gradually lost the game, the dynamics and the structure. Too bad the penalty missed by Lezcano because the possibility of victory was there, in his boots. Lezcano’s failure sums up what Bravos, Xolos and the game in general were: yawning. Yesterday’s Braves became the Braves of the last tournament I saw in several games: without handling the ball, without creation in the middle of the field (Marco Fabián needed a lot), without clarity above, without connection between the lines … without nothing .
The counterattack is extraordinary, because it was noticed that Juárez could hardly change his destiny almost budgeted according to his possibilities: he aspires to scratch a playoff. It seems that the team does not give for more, and yesterday’s game is a real reflection of this. The narrators said well yesterday when they announced a 4-minute overtime: “What sin did I commit?” Caballero could not with his fresh speech and his bold and somewhat unbridled system; It seems that even Tena, with a certainly outdated system, will not be able to. There is still a long way to go, but what happened yesterday is not motivating. Against a rival, let’s say that at his level, Bravos was reduced to a minimal expression.
The first half was certainly interesting and all the more so as both teams had clear options in which the goalkeepers went out to get away, but once the second half began, a contagious terror entered both teams when he proposed and tried to seek victory. . Forget that a draw, rather than winning a point, loses two. Bravos must decide, as a club, whether or not he will dare to be the protagonist, whether he will dare to have a long-term project for the city and whether he will dare to make the leap to no longer be a small team. In the north the teams are successful: Santos, Tigres, Monterrey. Let your board build on those examples of successful clubs and copy a few things from them. The good must be copied.
All this is done with a better game proposal, a belief that they can become protagonists, that they must leave behind the smallness and, especially, that they have the obligation to become an emotional reference for the city that needs and urges you to feel identified with something local and own to be proud of the local and not so much, as happens in Juárez, for foreigners.