League Cup: Saturday’s Five Games and Key Matchups for International Competitions

This Saturday there will be five games in the League Cup

After the duel between Rosario Central and Huracán, the eighth day of the League Cup continues this Saturday with a schedule full of matches. In the first round, San Lorenzo fell 3-0 at home against Newell’s. Now, Lanús faces Defense and Justice and Estudiantes with Godoy Cruz. In the last round, from 9:30 p.m., Argentinos Juniors will clash against Independiente and Central Córdoba will play with Tigre.

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SAN LORENZO 0-3 NEWELL’S:

Newell’s obtained a triumph as a visitor to San Lorenzo and recovered after losing the classic with Central: it was 3-0 with a double from Cristian Ferreira and another from Ramiro Sordo. In the Ciclón, which played one of the worst games since the arrival of Rubén Darío Insúa, Gonzalo Luján was sent off for a double yellow.

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In a fairly discreet first half, Lepra took advantage thanks to an excursion in the area by Ángel Martino, who combed the ball at the door of the large area and enabled Ferreira, who did not fail. Boedo’s team had just a couple of chances, but they did not achieve equality. The detail in the first half was the expulsion of Insúa, who had a confrontation with Gabriel Heinze and then wanted to go in search of Gringo’s field assistant Mariano Toedtli. Nicolás Lamolina decided to expel the Barça coach and the collaborator of the Rosario coach.

In addition, the homeowner tried modifications that had no effect and the visit was lethal as a result. The gross mistakes in the last line of San Lorenzo facilitated the plays of Newell’s second and third goals that, if they had tried, could have come back with an even greater difference.

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With this result, Cuervo lost ground in the fight to enter the Libertadores 2024 and also lost its undefeated record in the competition. Meanwhile, they missed out on being among the first four in Zone B of the League Cup, which will play in the quarterfinals of the competition. This Tuesday they will play the quarterfinals of the Argentine Cup against San Martín de San Juan in San Luis. Meanwhile, Rojinegro was second in the group (along with Belgrano), one point behind the leader Racing and waiting for what happens in the rest of the day. In addition, it approached the qualification zone for the Sudamericana 2024 in the Annual Table.

Trainings:

Stadium: Pedro Bidegain

Referee: Nicolás Lamolina

LANÚS-DEFENSE AND JUSTICE:

Defense and Justice visit to Lanús

Two beaten teams in need of a victory will collide at the Ciudad de Lanús Néstor Díaz Pérez Stadium. Lanús, which has just fallen in the Clásico del Sur, seeks to resurface against a Defensa y Justicia team that was eliminated in the semifinals of the Copa Sudamericana. With the arbitration of Fernando Espinoza, it televises Public TV and ESPN.

El Granate, despite the change of coach, cannot find its way, having gone eight games without victories and being the only First Division team that has not yet triumphed so far this semester. As a result of this meager streak, he gave up a lot of ground in the fight to enter an international competition and began to look with concern at the table of next season’s averages.

El Halcón is also going through a small crisis after four games without a win and being left out of the international tournament after falling in its series against Liga de Quito of Ecuador. However, with an accumulated 53 points, Julio Vaccari’s men are the last to qualify for the next edition of the Copa Libertadores.

Trainings:

Stadium: City of Lanús Néstor Díaz Pérez

Referee: Fernando Espinoza

Television: Public TV and ESPN

STUDENTS-GODOY CRUZ:

Estudiantes will seek victory against Godoy Cruz in La Plata

At the Jorge Luis Hirschi One Stadium, another key match also takes place in the race for a ticket to international competitions between teams that are undefeated for a long time. Students from La Plata face off against Godoy Cruz de Mendoza. The referee is Leandro Rey Hilfer and is televised by TNT Sports.

Pincha, which also continues in the Argentine Cup race after eliminating Independiente on penalties, has gone five games without defeats and has just drawn a goalless draw against Gimnasia in the La Plata classic. Although in the tournament it is second to last in Zone B with only six units, with a total of 51 points it appears in the Copa Sudamericana zone, close to positions in the Libertadores (two with Defensa y Justicia).

Tomba, for its part, has gone eight games without losing; but six ties in a row. With 9 points, he appears expectant in the League Cup and with a total of 50 points he is eighth in the Annual Table, which gives him a place in the next Copa Sudamericana.

Trainings:

Stadium: One Jorge Luis Hirschi

Referee: Leandro Rey Hilfer

Television: TNT Sports

ARGENTINE JUNIORS-INDEPENDENT:

Key duel for entry to the cups between Argentinos and Independiente

Five points away from relegation and six away from qualifying for the 2024 Copa Sudamericana. This is how Independiente is in the annual table ahead of a risky visit to La Paternal to stay at the top of Zone A against Argentinos Juniors at the Diego Armando Stadium Maradona. From 9:30 p.m. with refereeing by Nicolás Ramírez and ESPN Premium broadcast.

El Rojo is undefeated in the 90 minutes since the arrival of Carlos Tevez as coach. With four wins and three draws ( Estudiantes eliminated them on penalties in the Argentine Cup), the Apache team will seek to repeat the victory in the Avellaneda classic against Racing in the Cilindro to continue as the only leaders until the next day.

El Bicho comes from a defeat against Colón added to a goalless equality against Platense and is urgently needed to add to surpass Defensa y Justicia in the fight for entry to the Copa Libertadores 2024.

Probable formations:

Argentinos Juniors: Alexis Martín Arias; Marco Di Césare, Miguel Ángel Torrén, Lucas Villalba; Javier Cabrera, Federico Redondo, Alan Rodríguez, Román Vega, Francisco González Metilli; Leonardo Heredia and Luciano Gondou. DT: Pablo Guede.

Independent: Rodrigo Rey; Patricio Ostachuk, Cristian Báez, Joaquín Laso, Damián Pérez; Iván Marcone, David Martínez, Federico Mancuello; Braian Martínez, Martín Cauteruccio and Alexis Canelo. DT: Carlos Tevez.

Stadium: Diego Armando Maradona

Referee: Nicolás Ramírez

Time: 21.30

Television: ESPN Premium

CÓRDOBA-TIGRE CENTRAL:

Central Córdoba and Tigre will close the day in the League Cup

Key clash in the fight to avoid relegation. Central Córdoba will host Tigre at the Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades in Santiago del Estero in a crossroads with two teams involved in the last places. From 9:30 p.m. with refereeing by Silvio Trucco and television by TNT Sports.

El Ferroviario recovered from a streak of seven games without victories between the end of the first semester and the beginning of the League Cup to chain three victories in the last five games (one loss and one draw) to place itself in 22nd place of the Annual Table with 39 points, two behind Gimnasia and Vélez, who would be competing in a tiebreaker to remain in First Division.

On the other hand, Matador’s poor production in this tournament with six points in seven appearances put him in the red zone. With one win in seven games (1-0 vs. Boca in La Bombonera), those led by Lucas Pusineri are second to last in Zone B, only ahead of Lanús and accumulate 40 points in the accumulated table.

Probable formations:

Central Cordoba: Matthias Mansilla; Jose Gomez, Sebastian Valdez, Gonzalo Goni, Gustavo Canto, Juan Andres Meli; Brian Farioli, Mauro Pitton and Leandro Maciel; Cristhian Ocampos and Luis Miguel Rodriguez. DT: Omar De Philippe.

Tiger: James Rojas; Martin Ortega, Robert Rojas, Abel Luciatti and Sebastian Prieto; Lucas Menossi, Sebastian Prediger, Alexis Castro, Jose Paradela and Aaron Molinas; Nicholas Reniero. DT: Lucas Pusineri.

Stadium: Unique Mother of Cities

Referee: Silvio Trucco

Time: 21.30

Television: TNT Sports

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