The reason why Memo Ochoa remained on the bench during Salernitana vs Hellas Verona

Since Guillermo Ochoa came to Sporting Union of Salerno 1919 in Serie A in Italy, he had competed as starting goalkeeper in all matches, which is why in Mexico he was recognized for the potential with which he arrived in Europe in his second stage in the old continent.

However, his streak as a starting goalkeeper at Salernitana came to an end on February 13 as was on the bench for the first time and did not play the game against Hellas Veronaa fact that raised doubts among Mexican fans since, if Ochoa was recognized for his work in goal, why did the technical director remove him from his position.

was his David Nicholas who finished with the doubts and clarified What led you to make this decision?. As he said in an interview for Mediagol, Memo Ochoa is still the second goalkeeper team, so his place in the main XI is not guaranteed.

He considered it to be a role of the hierarchy since Luigi Sepe is the club’s star goalkeeper and now that he’s returned to the Italian squad, he’s put him back in the team’s starting lineup. Salernitana’s technical director recalled that the hiring of Ochoa was aimed at strengthening the goal due to Sepe’s absence.

“They hired Memo Ochoa to help us out until Sepe comes back. It’s a special role and there are hierarchies, Sepe has precisely taken his place”

On the other hand, to avoid conflicts between the goalkeepers, Davide Nicola added that having seated the former Club América goalkeeper was a way to rotate the composition and considered that if the team of the Juventus could do something similar with their goalkeepers, they could copy your strategy.

And it is that underlined the quality of the two goalkeepers inside, for which he added that it was only a change of strategy in the team to test the performance of Sepe and Ochoa in their respective matches.

“We have two excellent goalkeepers. There juve break their keepers, I don’t know why we can’t do that,” he said.

Luigi Sepe was absent with Salernitana since the end of 2022 when he filed a muscle injurywhich led him to be absent for a few months, which is why he could not play the first days of Serie A. This is where the board of directors estimated that for the season 2023 they needed to reinforce the goal, so they hired the goalkeeper from the Mexican team.

Now that Sepe has returned, Memo Ochoa faces a different scenario than he had at the start of the tournament, as he would have to convince the technical director to consider him in the starting line-up, otherwise he would spend the following matches on the bench.

And it is that, in the six games that the former América player has played with Salernitana, He only added one win, who was against Lecce on January 27; it was with the score of 2 to 1 that Ochoa won his first victory in the A league.

But also, during his first matches in Italy, Paco Memo He scored one of the worst goals of his entire sports career. In the match against Atalanta, he lost 8-2, an outrageous scoreline that sparked a series of jokes and memes about his quality as a goalkeeper.

The bone numbers worn by Guillermo Ochoa during his second stay in Italy contrast with what he recorded during his last season with Club América. Until his last match, The memo received 17 annotations, an average of 2.83 per game; while his saves averaged 28 saves per game corresponding to 4.67.