Newell’s Old Boys will visit Arsenal de Sarandí today with the mission of achieving with their interim coach Adrián Taffarel something that he could not with the three previous coaches: winning three games in a row during 2021.
The match, framed in the continuity of the date 21 of the Professional Football League (LPF), will be played from 17 at the Julio Grondona stadium, will be refereed by Andrés Merlos and televised by Public TV.
The Rosario team, with a weak campaign in the domestic tournament with just 23 points, beat Independiente (1-0) and Unión de Santa Fe (1-0) in their last two appearances, both matches under the technical direction of Taffarel (exDT of the Reserve division), and if he wins in Sarandí he will achieve what those who led in 2021 could not: Frank Darío Kudelka, Germán Burgos and Fernando Gamboa.
Regarding the formation, Newell’s will present two variants in relation to the team that surpassed Unión, with the income of Diego Calcaterra for Cristian Lema (overload in the right adductor) and Juan Fernando Garro for the youthful Román Bravo.
In Arsenal, which is last with only 16 points and has just been beaten by Independiente (3-0), coach Israel Damonte has two doubts: Emiliano Viveros or Juan Andrada in the midfield, and Bruno Sepúlveda or Nicolás Mazzola up front.
The history between the two is 29 games, with 10 wins for Newell’s, 7 for Arsenal and 12 draws.
– Probable Formations –
Arsenal: Alejandro Medina; Ignacio Gariglio, Emiliano Méndez, Gastón Suso and Emiliano Papa; Brian Farioli, Emiliano Viveros or Juan Andrada, Leonel Picco and Facundo Kruspzky; Bruno Sepúlveda or Nicolás Mazzola and Lucas Albertengo. DT: Israel Damonte.
Newell’s Old Boys: Ramiro Macagno; Tomás Jacob, Diego Calcaterra, José Canale and Mariano Bíttolo; Maximiliano Comba, Jerónimo Cacciabue, Pablo Pérez and Francisco González, Ignacio Scocco and Juan Fernando Garro. DT: Adrián Taffarel.
Referee: Andrés Merlos.
Court: Arsenal
Start time: 17.
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