Coudet's challenge for River v Belgrano: more flow, more threat | OneFootball

River will host Belgrano this Sunday at the Monumental looking to maintain its perfect start since Eduardo Coudet’s arrival, although the coach’s real challenge seems to go beyond the result. The team won all three matches it has played under his guidance and scored two goals in each, an efficiency that allowed it to take nine points out of nine. However, its overall play is still far from the idea the manager wants.

Even in victory, the Millonario showed stretches in which it gave up control, struggled to maintain intensity, and failed to dominate matches from start to finish. At several points, the team became predictable in attack and relied more on efficiency than on the consistent creation of chances. That contrast is what the coach is looking to fix.

The coaching staff’s diagnosis is clear: River lacked greater fluency in possession and well-established passing patterns to supply the forwards consistently. In several matches, the chances came more from individual drive or isolated runs down the flanks than from sustained combinations. For a coach identified with intense, aggressive, front-foot teams, that situation is a key area to improve.

Coudet wants his River to be capable of taking control of matches, pressing high, winning the ball back quickly, and attacking with greater attacking volume. He wants the team not only to strike when the chance arises, but also to impose itself for long stretches.

The FIFA break came at the right time to work on those details. During the mini preseason in Cardales, the coach used training sessions to test attacking alternatives and fine-tune movements up front, with the idea of finding more presence near the opposition box.

In that context, one of the most repeated trials was the front three made up of Maximiliano Salas, Sebastián Driussi, and Facundo Colidio, three players Chacho is looking to get back to their best and maximize. Although they will not necessarily all start together against Belgrano, the intention is to give them minutes so they can regain their best form.

Driussi, in fact, seems to be the only one with a virtually guaranteed place in the starting eleven. The forward has already scored two goals in this brief spell and is now the team’s main attacking reference, although he often has to operate between the center-backs without a clear partner in the box.

Coudet’s challenge, then, is to get River to combine results with a more clearly defined identity. So far, the team has shown efficiency (six goals in three matches), but not yet the intensity or sustained superiority that define its DNA. Against Belgrano, the coach hopes to start seeing a team more in control of the game, with better circulation and greater attacking threat.

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