River Plate’s first presentation in its stadium in the 2023 Professional League will be this Sunday against Argentinos Juniors for the third date. The meeting that will referee Fernando Rapallini is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. and will be broadcast live by ESPN Premium, so it can also be seen on the digital platforms Star+, DGO, Flow and Telecentro Play.
In the preview, the favorite to win in the betting house forecasts is the host with a maximum odds of 1.77 for each peso, dollar or euro invested. His defeat, that is to say a win for the visitor, pays up to 5.60. The draw is trading at 3.80.
Professional League – Date 3
For the Millionaire it will be his debut at the Monumental stadium because he played the first two matches as a visitor in order to have an extension to conclude the works he carried out and which increased its capacity to just over 83,000 spectators. With its people, the set of Martin Demichelis he will seek to forget about the loss against Belgrano de Córdoba and get his second victory in the contest.
The coach has once again available to David Martinez y Agustin Palavecino, who recovered from their respective injuries in a week in which Bruno Zuculini suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will be out for several months. If he repeats the formation that he started against the Pirate, they will go out on the field Franco Armani; Andrew Blacksmith, Jonathan Maidana, Enzo Diaz, Milton Helmet; Enzo Perez, Rodriguez; Pablo Solari, Ignacio Fernandez, Jose Paradela and Miguel Borja.
El Bicho, after losing in the first game against Rosario Central as a visitor, defeated Racing in La Paternal and arrives emboldened for the match against River. technical director Gabriel Milito can’t count on Santiago Montiel, expelled in front of the Academy and with a penalty to his credit.
The last four records between both clubs were with a smile for River. The most recent duel was in October 2022 for the Professional League of that year and the cast that he was directing at the time Marcelo Gallardo won 3-0 at the stadium Diego Armando Maradona.
River has in its squad the only footballer of the 26 who played and won the Qatar 2022 World Cup who plays in the Professional League: Frank Armani. In this context and after the tributes paid to the goalkeeper in Santiago del Estero and Córdoba, the Millionaire, in his home debut, will do his own with a special addition because he invited all the players from the institution who lifted the most important of all in Argentina 1978 and Mexico 1986.
Among them stands out the figure of Daniel Alberto Passarella, who is the only Argentine who won the World Cup twice because he was part of the teams in 1978 and 1986. The invitation to the ceremony by the Board of Directors that presides Jorge Brito it generated discrepancy between the partners and fans taking into account that during the Kaiser’s term as president the team descended to the B Nacional.
“I am going with my friends and my family. My return will be a common return together with the members of the world championships that we won”, assured Passarella in the last hours in an interview in TyC Sports. Brito defended and justified his invitation: “The differences I had with Passarella in his management were public knowledge. It is not worth commenting here what we did as soon as we arrived in the first presidency of Rodolfo D’Onofrio. That does not imply that I am the owner of making a decision not to invite someone who was a world champion, being a River player.
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