Several British media reflected the historic performance of the River Plate striker who will wear the Manchester City shirt
Different English media turned their eyes on the impressive Álvarez’s performance in the Copa Libertadores
The Monumental stadium witnessed a new night of Copa Libertadoresthat went down in the history of both the club and the competition. The great undisputed figure of the confrontation between River Plate and Alianza Lima was Julián Álvarez, who scored six of the eight goals that the Millionaire he gave the Peruvian team. Already sold to Manchester City, the performance of the Spider did not go unnoticed on the other side of the pond and several English media echoed the striker’s impressive performance.
The future competition for a place in the starting team of the light blue draw between the Argentine and Erling Haaland began months before the footballers met for the first time in person. “Who is Haaland?”, headlined The Sun, in one of its articles enlarging the figure of the Calchín native, while the Daily Mail headed the summary with a forceful phrase: “The Premier League is not ready”. With the two balls under his arm, Great Britain woke up with Álvarez’s face in several of the local newspapers.
From the European continent they confirmed offers to take on loan the young gunner who is part of the Argentine team. But clearing up any kind of rumor Ferrán Soriano , CEO of Manchester City, assured that he will stay in the cast led by Pep Guardiola and that he has just become champion in the Premier League. “We have had many offers from clubs to loan Julián Álvarez, but he is not going to leave. He will do the preseason with us and he will stay . Barcelona was not among those interested”, he confirmed to The Sun.
Julián won the man of the match award and two balls for the six goals scored (Photo: Getty)
Marcelo Gallardo, River Plate coach and Álvarez’s mentor, reflected at a press conference on the historic performance. “It’s difficult because there’s a team that made a big investment (for Manchester City) and takes away a diamond in the rough. We are countries that export soccer players, many have left us in this time and we have tried to survive those games. Replacing it will be easy for us, we are not going to find him, we have to be aware that he will very possibly play in the round of 16 of the Cup and go to his new destination. What happens no longer depends on me or what we can do ourselves. It’s that simple.”
In addition, with the performance on Wednesday night, the gunner reached 51 conquests with the River Plate shirt in 115 games officials and the historical mark of Rafael Santos Borré is stalking, who with 55 is the top scorer of the Marcelo Gallardo era. The Spiderwas only four celebrations away from the Colombian. Lucas Alario completes the podium (41 goals in 82 games). Álvarez still has to play the start of the next local tournament, the Copa Argentina match against Barracas Central and the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores, before he joins Manchester City.
THE MEDIA THAT REFLECTED THE HISTORIC PERFORMANCE:
“Who is Haaland?” entitled The Sun to graph Julián Álvarez’s night
“Erling Haaland’s competition” The Telegraph wrote on its front page goals-by-julián-álvarez-5fab77c.jpg” alt=”¿Who is Haaland?”: in England they surrender to Julián Álvarez’s six goals” />
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Daily Mail led with “The Premier League is not ready” for the talent of Julián Álvarez