Russo scolds Palacios after Úbeda row, may drop him from Boca XI | OneFootball

Boca's rise, with a noticeable improvement in football and positive results after months adrift, came with a negative asterisk: the repeated reproaches from the players towards the changes, with Claudio Úbeda as the main target of the anger.

But that's over, because Miguel Ángel Russo took a firm stand after the last episode that had Carlos Palacios as the protagonist of another public scene that left the coaching staff in a bad light at the Gigante de Arroyito and had a one-on-one chat with the Chilean as a corrective measure.

"It can't happen again," was, more or less, what the 69-year-old coach, now back in the daily routine after overcoming a urinary infection, told the footballer - whose history of controversies plays against him - upon returning to Tuesday's training.

It was a brief, concise, and forceful conversation. Russo is tired of the players (previously figures like Miguel Merentiel and Edinson Cavani) making gestures or verbally expressing complaints about a technical decision and gave a disciplinary lesson - in good terms - to Palacios.

The coach does not want to see these extracurricular issues in the focus of the media agenda - much less when Boca is on the rise - and that's why he set the guidelines face to face with Palacios, although there was also a message for the entire squad at the time.

Does this affect the Chilean's consideration? No, as in similar situations that occurred previously there was no punishment. However, there is a possibility that the former Colo Colo player will leave the team to receive Central Córdoba on Sunday, but the reason is purely football-related.

Russo did not see Palacios well in the last matches (he took him out in all of them in the middle of the second half) and both Williams Alarcón and Alan Velasco, in that order of priority, are gaining ground to replace him. It's a change that the coaching staff has been analyzing due to his low performance and has no relation to the gesture to Úbeda, as revealed in Boca Predio.

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