06/19/2024 10:13 a.m.
“I’m very sad about how Armani is criticized for the penalties. He earned important respect, beyond being world champion, by saving in River. We don’t all have the same personality.”
From archer to archer. From colleague to colleague. Yeah Franco Armani He had and has a mole since he came to River back in early 2018, that’s the topic criminalsomething that was demonstrated in the recent definition against Temperley which led to the elimination of the team in the Argentine Cup. A topic of debate about which everyone maintains their opinion, in the last few hours a voice from the side opposed to banking the Octopus in this area was added: It was Roberto Abbondanzieri, two-time world champion and three-time winner of the Libertadores with Boca.
Of course, Pato knows that penalties are not easy, despite the fact that his numbers in the xeneize are much better than Armani’s in the Millo: 28.92% effectiveness (24 of 83 saves) to 13.85% (nine of 65). “One is born like this as an archer. Surely he is training it, but it is not easy at all. That is why sometimes we see that when the goalkeeper does not save a penalty or passes close to him, he immediately falls with his head. I think it has to be the other way around there: that’s when you have to hold your head the highest,” said someone who is currently dedicated to agricultural production and usually expresses himself politically (a few days ago he was seen near Javier Milei).
And he added, knowing that it is a point that the goalkeeper can improve: “You have 50% of it naturally and the other 50% you can train. Nowadays it is much more difficult, each time they put one more stick in the wheel for us archers. But yes, it can improve it, I would love for Armani the best and. Anyway, don’t forget that by saving a penalty, he gave Boca a championship, ha,” he explained, in dialogue with TyC Sports, also leaving a small chicane between laughs for the penalty that Armani saved against Galván, when Racing and Boca defined the LPF 2022.
Armani, with the National Team in the Copa América (AFA Press).
This last thing that Duck mentioned, beyond the tone used, has some truth at a general level: curiously, beyond not being a specialist, it can be said that who is with the National Team to play his third Copa América saved four of the most important penalties that were given to him in his career. In the Selectionto Paraguay on the second date of the Copa América 2019 (it was decisive because Argentina had just lost and was 1-1, it could have meant elimination in the group stage); and in Rivertwo to Cruzeiro in the quarterfinals of the Libertadores 2019 and the one mentioned racing.
As for his overall career statistics, a Armani They kicked 162 penalties (five in Deportivo Merlo, 85 in Atlético Nacional, 65 in River and seven in the National Team), of which they gave him 122 (75.3%), he saved 27 (16.6%) and 13 went away deviated (8.1%). Of those 162, 73 were in regulation time (56 goals, 12 saves and five deflections) and 89 in definitions (66, 15 and eight).
