Millonarios is experiencing one of the most complex moments of the Alberto Gamero era. Eliminated from the Copa Libertadores and complicated in the home runs (it is last in group A, with three points in the same number of games), The team plays the semester this Wednesday in Bucaramanga: it has to win to stay alive (6:15 pm, with Win Sports + signal).
The failure in the Cup hit the team hard and the fans began to pick on Gamero and the players, to the point that some even insulted the children of the team captain, Mackalister Silva. The last few days have been so hard that the coaching staff decided to take a day off after losing against Palestino, to try to slow down.
A reference for star 14, midfielder Yhonny Ramírez, analyzed the moment Millonarios is going through today. He himself was part of a team that was in the same circumstance in the semifinal phase: three points in three games and with the obligation to win everything to fight for the final, although the mood was different then.
Yhonny Ramírez (left), with Román Torres, in 2012.
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Today the environment is complicated. Ramírez believes that Millonarios has to take advantage of the respect that he has generated with the campaigns of recent years in the local tournament to get up and once again seek to advance to the final.
“Millonarios has acquired great learning, a hierarchy in local soccer. They have to become strong, strengthen their young players. And the weight has to fall on the most experienced, the experience has to come out,” he opined.
Injuries and short payroll affect
Injury losses continue to worry Millonarios. Stiven Vega, the last to fall from the call, has a sprained knee that will take him out of the courts for almost two months. Ramírez is concerned about the issue of replacement.
Steven Vega
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That issue, that of replacement, is what, for Ramírez, is the big difference between the moment he experienced with the team in 2012 and now.
“At that time we practically had another payroll. One day before the game against Tigre in the Sudamericana, the other team went to play against Tolima and won 3-0, that result was key to continue fighting for the title. Today I don’t see it with the necessary replacement, plus the Libertadores coup, which affects it,” he noted.
Millonarios also has one game left in the Copa Libertadores, and in very complicated circumstances, with a decimated team, away from home and against what was the great favorite of the group, Flamengo, that the classification is also at stake. For Ramírez, this game must be played with intelligence.
“It is an extremely delicate match, especially given the moment they are experiencing today, when criticism is intensifying. A bulky result would be fatal for Gamero’s goal. These results, when they are of this size, are shocking. What Gamero should do is go with a team that fights, with intelligence, without giving away and facing it in the best possible way,” he concluded.
The accounts are clear: Millonarios has to win everything he has left to think about reaching the final. And that may not even be enough. At least, what the fans hope is that the effort is made. For now, the team is risking its future in 90 minutes.
José Orlando Ascencio
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