How is Group D? Fluminense leads it with 9 points, River and Sporting Cristal follow with 7 (the Millionaire is second for goals in favor) and The Strongest completes it with 6 points. Martín Demichelis’s team will qualify without depending on another result if they beat The Strongest at the Monumental. Now, If you tie, you can also pass but you will need help: that Fluminense beat Cristal or a 0-0 or 1-1 draw between the two to remain tied on goal difference and advance on goals in favor.
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River, which comes from beating Instituto 3-1 and cherishes the Professional League title with the defeat of Talleres, will face the Bolivian team with a forced substitution. After Leandro González Pirez’s injury, Emanuel Mammana or Robert Rojas will enter the team. In addition, the coach evaluates the entry of Enzo Pérez, captain and benchmark of the team, by Pablo Solari, who has been important with assists.
For its part, The Strongest comes from falling by 6 to 3! with Nacional Potosí and will seek to recover with a historic victory against River (they never beat him at the Monumental) that will allow them to dream of reaching the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores. They will also need Fluminense to beat Sporting Cristal or draw in Brazil. In any case, with a victory they will secure third place and therefore continue in the Copa Sudamericana.
“The team is physically bad. I have been in football for many years and this type of result opens my eyes, as well as the players.”commented coach Ricardo Formosinho, who was the 2004 Champions League champion as Mourinho’s field assistant at Porto. In any case, he assured: “Against River it will be a different story, let’s do something different. The players are already fine.”
River lost ugly 3 to 1 with The Strongest in his debut in the Copa Libertadores that took place in Bolivia. Now, being a much more mature team and at home and not in a setting with a lot of altitude above sea level, they will seek to prevail to continue in the Cup, the great objective.
Possible formations:
River: Franco Armani; Milton Helmet, Paulo Diaz, Emmanuel Mammana or Robert Rojas, Enzo Diaz; Enzo Perez, Rodriguez; Nicholas De la Cruz, Nacho Fernandez, Esequiel Ship; Lucas Beltran. DT: Martin Demichelis.
The Strongest: William Viscarra; Saul Towers, Gonzalo Castle, Paul Pedraza, Charles Rock; Jose Maria Carrasco, Alvaro Quiroga; Eugene Isnaldo, Michael Ortega, Fabricio Quaglio; Henry Triverio. DT: Richard Formosinho.
2023-06-28 00:55:52
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