River Plate, far from the level that led it to clearly win the last Professional Football League (LPF), will try to recover its best image when it receives Arsenal this Sunday, which seems condemned to relegation to the Primera Nacional due to its low average.
The match, valid for the fourth date of Zone A of the League Cup, will be played at the Más Monumental stadium from 7:30 p.m., with the arbitration of Fernando Espinoza, the VAR in charge of Ariel Penel and televised by ESPN Premium.
River needs to change the direction and change the image it showed in its last presentation when it was surpassed emotionally and football-wise by Vélez Sarsfield in Liniers.
The “Millonario” had an opaque start in the League Cup with three points out of nine and the campaign does not help to heal the wound of the elimination in the Copa Libertadores against Internacional from Brazil.
The players show a noticeable decline in their performance, coach Martín Demichelis does not seem accurate in deciding the changes and tactical schemes and the coexistence in the squad became strained due to statements by the coach that should have remained private.
The situation is special for specific reasons. River has a large squad, with many figures, that was put together thinking about reaching the final stages in the Copa Libertadores and the Argentine Cup, but everything came to nothing with the elimination in both tournaments.
They only play in the League Cup and their team, undoubtedly the richest in Argentine football, was too big for so little activity, which resulted in discontent.
It is also added that by 2024 there will be changes to the team. Some mature stars could emigrate and many players in this League Cup are going to risk their continuity at the club for next season.
This Sunday, against a rival that is packing its bags to go to Nacional, it should reconcile with its people and once again be the River that makes a difference at the domestic level.
The “Millionaire” will look for his 17th. consecutive victory at the Monumental. He already set a record with 16. The last match he did not win was precisely against Arsenal (1-2), on February 26.
The Viaducto club is playing its last games in the major division, except for a fantastic recovery. He has the lowest average with 105 points in 109 matches, 20th from Platense and 21st from Sarmiento, when he has 33 left in play.
A possible way of salvation would be the resounding fall of Instituto de Córdoba, whose average is calculated with a lower divisor, although Arsenal should also abandon the last place in the annual table, which occupies six units behind Huracán.
In the first division tournaments, River and Arsenal played 31 times with 14 wins for Núñez’s team, eleven draws and six victories for Sarandí’s team.
Telam.
2023-09-17 01:32:12
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