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Says the phrase ‘new broom, sweep well’, it seems that it was applied to this Atlético Nacional, which, without the previous coaching staff of Juan Carlos Osorio with Pompilio Páez, managed to find victory again, a winding road, where five games ago it was they had lost their way. Alejandro Restrepo as a GPS, managed to guide the purslanes, who without much to spare about Deportivo Pasto, cut that streak of 16 games by receiving goals, in addition to establishing themselves among the eight in the League. Here are five keys to this nationalist joy on the cold Sunday of Medellín.
Line of four: With Helibelton Palacios as left-back and Yerson Candelo as right-back, who frequently changed bands, added to a young man like Yerson Mosquera accompanying Diego Braghieri as center-backs, they were the winning formula for Nacional to achieve zero in his arc. They controlled the transitions of the Pastuso team and although they had errors in some deliveries and in the preparation of the game at the start and exit, they managed to solve it. This good accompaniment led to José Cuadrado not being so exposed and responding with a couple of risky interventions, compared to those he had in other games.
Baldomero – Rovira as ‘double five’: Bryan Rovira dedicated himself to being Nacional’s filter, while Baldomero was more mixed, with a footfall into the area, so much so that he managed to score the winning goal after his recovery. That tandem gave him results, without losing so much the mark on his rivals.
Andrés Andrade, the ‘all-field player’: The ‘rifle’ is everyone’s partner in Nacional, a player with a lot of solidarity and sacrifice. He started as a winger, but was getting into the game as an inside, helped in the mark when he did not have the ball and even had the luxury of saving with his head and at the end of the game, a ball that was destined for a goal. With 22 games, he is the only player on the team who has been in all the official matches of this convulsed 2020.
Still costing dynamics and depth: The first half was a suffering rather than a loss of virtues. Nacional was a static, predictable team, without rhythm and crashing into a defensive wall in Pasto. They wasted several set pieces and until the second half, they had only one arrival at goal. However, in this meeting they managed to react before they were marked, that is already progress.
Effective possession: In the complementary stage and with the entry of players like Jarlan Barrera and Estéfano Arango, Nacional managed to hold the ball and have it play in his favor. He began to alternate it on the wings, ceasing to be in the center, thanks to that the spaces left by his rival arrived and through which he could score the winning goal.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
On twitter: @ juanchoserran8
