It may be hyperbolic to suggest that Maxi Salas kept Marcelo Gallardo in a job last week. The River Plate coach certainly enjoys more protection than most of his peers in the Liga Profesional de Fútbol, and deservedly so given his past triumphs as both a player and in his two spells on the bench. But Salas did manage to keep the jeers from rising too loudly in what has been a dismal last few weeks for Gallardo and his employers.
There is a fair dose of irony in the fact that the one thing River have had to celebrate over the last month was greeted
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