🎙️ Gallardo Analyzed River Plate's Victory in San Juan | OneFootball

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The coach of Millonario expressed his happiness for the 2-0 victory against San Martín and maintained that he has a squad where competition to play reigns.

River Plate managed to add another victory in the Professional Football League (LPF) by defeating San Martín de San Juan at the Hilario Sánchez Stadium with goals from Miguel Ángel Borja and Franco Mastantuono, who came off the bench to rescue Millonario in away territory.

At the end of the match, Marcelo Gallardo spoke about the performance of his players and the competitiveness that exists in his squad.

"I chose the forward line understanding the night, how the weather, the match, the management of minutes and efforts were going to be, we were going to have a complex day with high temperatures. We had to manage the efforts and the minutes. I tried to start in one way to then give oxygen with other variants," he commented on the choice of Sebastián Driussi and Gonzalo Tapia as starters.

The 'Doll' explained that he has a squad full of variants and that this keeps the competitiveness very high in this new cycle that began last year.

"We are in the process of constant search, and we are finding the individual behaviors of the footballers to function in the best way as we want. We need them to be in the best form football-wise, mentally and physically. The idea of continuity is marked by the footballers. The continuity of a team is the functioning of the team and the individualities that are sustained. For the team to function well, the footballers have to be in top form. We have ups and downs and we are in search of continuity," he explained.

In addition, the River Plate coach emphasized the difficulty of matches in Argentine football.

"It was a very tough, very tight and hard-fought match. Today what we had was hierarchy to open the score and put us ahead to define the match in the second goal. I'm going to insist on this, because it seems that Argentine football was a football totally alien to what we are seeing. All the matches are very fought and disputed. Everyone struggles to win, there is a lot of parity in physical efforts and how the matches are disputed. I said from the start that it was not going to be easy for us, the rivals also play," he analyzed.

River climbed to the third position of Zone B with 15 units, two behind the leader Rosario Central and one from Independiente. In the next match, they will have to face Estudiantes de La Plata at the Mâs Monumental Stadium on Saturday, March 1.

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