Despite winning the Colombia Cup with Atlético Nacional, being second in the League two points behind Deportes Tolima and competing in the Copa Libertadores, that last item is the one that left Alejandro Restrepo on the tightrope. The operation of the team and the way in which it is facing the games would not be satisfying the Purslane managers, who would be evaluating its continuity.
Restrepo took over the technical direction of Atlético Nacional in June 2021, so far, he has managed in 43 games for all competition, with 23 wins, 12 draws and eight losses, his team scored 68 goals and received 35, for a total of 81 points out of 129 possible, being a performance of 62.7 percent. But why is he so questioned with these numbers?
One of the objectives of Atlético Nacional is to reach the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2022, where they mean just over 3 million dollars to the club’s coffers. The squad has good players, but the decisions during the matches is what has it in the eye of the hurricane, beyond the poor performance in the home runs of the II-2021 League, despite getting 42 points in the all-against-all phase , is another factor that has been building up on the 39-year-old coach.
Not to mention that for this year Carlos ‘Piscis’ Restrepo was added as second technical assistant. Restrepo continues to get complicated and there are several games where the team, instead of improving with the changes, gets worse. Everything indicates that the 3-1 win over Olimpia has put the directors on alert, who would be thinking of giving a ‘swerve’.
But at this point in the semester it will be difficult to find a coach who is willing to assume the coaching bench of Nacional. If the elimination in the Copa Libertadores takes place, the only incentive is to be champions of the I-2022 League, they will surely have a deck of candidates, among which the Argentine Hernán Crespo has sounded strong, who is without a team and had a good performance with Defense and Justice, the team he took to the 2020 South American Cup, it is also not ruled out that “Piscis” ends the championship. In any case, crucial days are lived to know if the Restrepo era continues or the purslane will have another new chapter on the technical bench.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED Correspondent
Medellin
En Twitter: @juanchoserran8
