By Edgardo Avelar
01 Nov 2024, 00:07 AM EDT
The disappearance of Uriel Antuna in the Tigres de la UANL, like the great player he showed last season with Cruz Azul, he only has one reason and according to the experienced coach’s opinion Ricardo La Volpe, in the feline squad they are placing him in the wrong area on the field.
The above was described by the former coach of the Mexico national team in the 2006 World Cup in Germany in his podcast “LaVolpismo”, where he explained that: “They are placing Uriel Antuna in a wrong area close to the right wing, where Javier Aquino, who was a forward and is now a flying winger, is placed, so for that reason side they take away the danger.”
La Volpe stated on this topic that: “The great coach is the one who makes the players shine with their technique, because of their game, so in a case like that of Uriel Antuna, why did it work at Cruz Azul? First, because Cruz Azul plays with a line of three, secondly, Cruz Azul, when playing with that line, has two flying full-backs with a lot of back-and-forth.”
And he added that: “First he had Rodrigo Huescas and today that he doesn’t have Antuna, He has Jorge Sánchez, he also played with a nine and the midfielders, where Anselmi placed him as the second nine and that made him generate danger and a lot of finish.
He also said that: “I was not surprised that Cruz Azul did it, Well, we did it in Toluca with Vicente Sánchez and Cardozo, while in the Atlas with Hugo Castillo and Daniel Osorno, as well as in the national team with Francisco “Kikín” Fonseca and Jared Borgetti.”
La Volpe was clear that Antuna’s success in Cruz Azul was because: In Cruz Azul, Anselmi put him as the second striker And for the good, the good system of the Cruz Azul coach generated many goal plays and that is why it killed you because it is spicy and has definition and that is why he became the scoring champion.”
In Tigres they are wrong
In turn, La Volpe when playing the issue of the style of play that Antuna plays in the Tigres of the UANL, explained that: “What happens is that Tigres plays with the famous 4-2-3-1 and that means that they have the two full-backs attached to the wing and he positions himself close to the line on the right where There is Javier Aquino.”
The experienced technical director and analyst of TUDN in the matches of the Mexican team, for that reason he assured that they are placing him in the wrong way: “Uriel Antuna is a player who knows how to get in diagonally, Then they must free up the right zone or place him as a second striker, so that with his explosiveness and skill he can arrive well profiled.”
“But if they throw it from the wing, they lose a lot there, especially because I insist that Aquino is in that area and then his team’s own midfielders close the spaces for him, which reduces the space for Antuna to be the player who showed his ability at Cruz Azul.”
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