River Plate, which leads Zone A with 23 points, will visit Rosario Central this Saturday for the 13th round of the League Cup, with the aim of winning to qualify first against a rival that also needs the points to enter the Cup Libertadores.El Millonario, who has just lost at home against Huracán, needs the victory to ensure its chance of winning Zone A. “River has to go out and win the game. First because it is not yet classified and second because we all know that Boca has a good chance of reaching the Cup through the table, through the Argentine Cup or through some outside hand, as happened the other day with the goal that was disallowed against San Lorenzo,” the president of the River Museum in Rosario shot this Friday. , Marcelo Ismael, in the face of alleged speculation. Meanwhile, technical director Martín Demichelis confirmed those called up with the return of Matías Suárez and without Jonatan Maidana, who will not continue with the club once the season ends. The coach would make at least two changes: the entry of the right back Andrés Herrera for Santiago Simón and the Uruguayan midfielder Nicolás de la Cruz for Rodrigo Aliendro or Ignacio Fernández, while evaluating whether to keep Milton Casco at left back or replace him with Enzo Díaz and the possibility of replacing the Venezuelan striker Salomón Rondón with the Colombian Miguel Borja. For its part, Central is fourth in the annual table with 59 units, it leads Boca by 3 points and to date qualifies for the next Copa Libertadores. The Auriazul technical director, Miguel Angel Russo, evaluates the inclusion of the Mexican striker Luca Martínez Dupuy for Fabricio Oviedo, a variant that he tried at halftime of the last draw with Barracas. The match will begin at 6:30 p.m. (TV: TNT Sports) at the Gigante de Arroyito, which will be filled with some 45 thousand members who last Wednesday sold out the 20 thousand popular ones in less than an hour and almost all the available seats.
Sand says goodbye to the Academy
Racing will visit Lanús on date 13 of Zone B of the League Cup, in a duel that will have as its attraction the need for both to score points to access the Copa Sudamericana. Likewise, it will be a night of emotions that will be He will live in Lanús, which will attend the farewell of his goalscorer and idol José “Pepe” Sand, who at 43 years old is leaving football after scoring 173 goals in 322 games since his debut at Granate in 2007. The Corrientes native participated in four titles of the six that Lanús has and will retire from professional activity against Racing, the second team against which he scored the most goals in his extensive career, with 12 goals in 21 games. Lanús is last in the area with 11 units, although he improved with the arrival of Ricardo Zielinski (former coach of the Academy) by adding four matches without defeats.
Racing, led by the interim duo Sebastián Grazzini-Ezequiel Videla, is experiencing a negative reality despite the fact that it has a chance of qualifying for the quarterfinals with a team with serious defensive shortcomings.
The duo will continue until the end of the year, but the Avellaneda team must focus all their efforts on reaching the 2024 Copa Sudamericana for sporting and economic reasons. The match will take place from 8 p.m. (TV: TNT Sports) in La Fortaleza de Lanús, south of the suburbs.
Vélez plays it in La Paternal
Seriously committed to relegation, Vélez Sarsfield will visit Argentinos Juniors, which lost in its last four appearances, for matchday 13 of the League Cup, in a duel valid for Zone A. Liniers’ team will have a weekend hectic since he will play a large part of his chances of continuing in the First Division and the next day there will be elections in the club to renew the authorities. As for football, Vélez has 18 points in Zone A and although he has the possibility of advancing to the quarterfinals, the objective is to avoid relegation. In the annual table they added 45 points, the same as Sarmiento, Huracán and Gimnasia, above the Santa Fe team of Unión (43) and Colón (42). To ensure their continuity in the category, the blue V needs to win in La Paternal and Let Unión or Colón not do it, while if they win and Tigre (46) draws or loses they will also be saved. Argentines have no chance of advancing in the League Cup, but they have 52 points in total and are two away from entering next year’s Copa Sudamericana. In El Bicho, coach Pablo Guede is looked at out of the corner of his eye, who since he arrived to replace Gabriel Milito did not find work or good results.
The match will be played this Saturday starting at 4 p.m. (TV: ESPN Premium) at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Paternal.
The Globe wants to continue rising
Continuing with matchday 13 of the League Cup, Huracán will host the relegated Arsenal at 9 p.m. (TV: TNT Sports), in Zone A. Huracán is in the quarterfinal zone with 20 points, but is positioned three of the relegation in the general table (45) due to the bad season in the first half. After last Friday’s important victory against River Plate at the Monumental, the experienced Fernando Tobio – who recovered from a tear in the soleus – would enter for Fabio Pereyra, in one of the variants that coach Diego Martínez would make for the last home presentation. For its part, Arsenal is already relegated, although in the last six rounds it has collected 10 points of the 13 it has in the area and coach Darío Espínola would repeat the same names that drew goalless with Gimnasia La Plata in Sarandí.
2023-11-11 06:39:38
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