The Cacique gets fully involved in what will be this Wednesday’s match against Xeneize, where he will seek a victory to distance himself at the top of Group F and thus begin to direct his qualification to the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores.
The bitter draw against Unión La Calera is now a thing of the past and in Colo Colo they are fully involved in what will be this Wednesday’s match against Boca Juniors at the Monumental Stadium, within the framework of the third date of Group F of the Cup Liberators 2023.
This meeting is of the utmost importance for the Cacique, in which they will seek to gain valuable three points that will allow them to distance themselves at the top of the table and thus begin to direct their qualification to the round of 16 of the contest.
How do both teams arrive?
El Popular reaches this commitment after a draw against the Caleranos that left it in sixth place and three points behind leader Huachipato, who has one less match. While in the continental contest, they come from a draw against Deportivo Pereira and an important victory against Monagas that has them at the top of the group with four units.
For their part, the Xeneizes do the same after beating Racing and thus climb to thirteenth place in the Argentine league. Meanwhile, in Libertadores they add an equality against the Venezuelan cast and an agonizing victory against the Colombians to reach four points and share at the top with the albos.
Injuries do not give rest to both teams
The hospital of the Eternal Champion continues adding patients and to the well-known casualties of Matías de los Santos, Fabián Castillo, Darío Lezcano and Matías Moya, Marcos Bolados was added, who suffered a knee sprain in the last match, which will leave him out of action for the entire first semester.
A not very different situation is the one experienced by the Bosteros, who have not had a good time at all and regret the absence of eight players due to injury, which has DT Jorge Almirón worried since five of them are starters.
For this duel, the strategist will not be able to count on defenders Bruno Valdez (grade 2/3 muscle injury in the left femoral biceps), Marcos Rojo (recovery process after a cruciate ligament tear) and Frank Fabra (lateral ligament sprain). inner knee). In midfield, Juan Ramírez will not be present (grade 2 tear of the biceps femoris).
While in offense, the Argentines will not have Luca Langoni (grade 1 hamstring muscle injury), Darío Benedetto (grade 2 hamstring tear), Norberto Briasco (grade 2 quadriceps muscle injury) and Exequiel Zeballos, who will his operated knee inflamed from a meniscal injury.
It should be noted that for this match, the Macul commune venue will be able to accommodate a total of 24,000 people after the punishments applied by Conmebol and the national authorities as a result of the embarrassing incidents that have occurred in recent times.
Colo Colo and Boca Juniors will face each other this coming Wednesday, May 3 from 8:00 p.m. at the Monumental Stadium and you can click here to not miss any details of this lawsuit valid for date 3 of Group F of the Cup Liberators 2023.
This is how Colo Colo marches in the table of Group F of the Copa Libertadores:
