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The date 12 of the Professional League 2024 has four games this Sunday and the last of them is between River Plate y Newell’s at the Monumental Stadium with refereeing by Leandro Rey Hilfer. The meeting is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. It is broadcast live on ESPN Premiuma channel that can be tuned online on the digital platforms Flow, DGO and Telecentro Play as long as the client has contracted the ‘football package’. On Canchallena you can follow the minute by minute with information and statistics updated instantly.
The last time both clubs met was in April of last year in Rosario, for the 2023 Professional League, and the Millonario won 1 to 0 with a goal from Pablo Solari.
The Millionaires have just qualified for the quarter-finals of the Copa Libertadores by defeating Talleres de Córdoba 3-1 in the overall result, thanks to the 1-0 victories in Córdoba and 2-1 in Buenos Aires. In the LPF they are in tenth place with 16 points (four wins, four draws and three losses), but they have three consecutive draws and the last of them was 1-1 against Gimnasia de La Plata, so they must win in order not to lose ground to the teams that are in the top zone.
To welcome Leprosy, Marcelo Gallardo makes some changes, although the starting team is very similar to the one that defeated the T last Wednesday. Marcos Acunaa brand new signing and perhaps the best signing in Argentine football in this transfer market, could add his first minutes with the red band, although entering from the substitutes’ bench in the second half. In the starting eleven, Rodrigo Villagra, With little playing time since the arrival of the ‘Muñeco’, he has a chance to occupy the position of Matias Kranevitter, of good performances. The other change is in the offensive zone, with three names for one position: Franco Mastantuono, Claudio ‘Diablito’ Echeverri or Facundo Colidio, who recently recovered from synovitis in his right knee that kept him out of the last few games.
Marcelo Gallardo is undefeated since returning to River Plate with two wins and two drawsNicolas Aguilera – AP
The set of Sebastian Mendezfor its part, He started the second championship of the year in Argentina on the wrong foot. He is 23rd in the general classification. with only 11 points obtained in the same number of presentations, the result of three wins, two draws and six losses. In the last match, they lost at home against Racing by the minimum difference (previously they succumbed to their eternal rival, Rosario Central, in the Rosario derby, also by 1 to 0). They have not won since the sixth match, when they beat Barracas Central 1 to 0 with a goal from Juan Ramirez in added time.
In the preview, the favourite to win according to the betting forecasts is the home team with a maximum rate of 1.42 against 8.10 for a defeat, that is, a victory for the visitor. A draw comes at 4.20.
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