Estudiantes de La Plata will have a risky visit to Avellaneda this Sunday, where they will face a needy Independiente, a team that has not known victory for more than two months. The match will be played this Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at the Libertadores de América-Ricardo Bochini stadium, and will be refereed by Hernan Mastrangelo and televised by the signal ESPN Premium.
Pincha arrives with 11 points to his credit and alternating good performances with disappointing ones. Yet this week he’s in tune after having thrashed Newell’s (3-0) in La Plata and defeated Oriente Petrolero (1-0) in Bolivia for the Copa Sudamericana.
El DT Eduardo Dominguez, who last year had an ephemeral stint with Independiente, repeats the list of concentrates and if imponderables do not arise, he will repeat the same 11 that played for the Copa Sudamericana against Oriente Petrolero. The entire squad worked normally and they are only sidelined due to various injuries José Sosa, Pablo Piatti, Guido Carrillo, Franco Zapiola and the juveniles Gonzalo Pineiro and Nicolás Palavecino.
On Red’s side, the bad moment cost DT his job Leandro Stillitanoreplaced by Peter Damian Monzon. They have just 9 points and a single victory achieved on the initial date on January 28, in Córdoba against Talleres (1-0) and with a goal against Angelo Martino.
The former player took over on an interim basis, achieved a victory in the 32nd round of the Argentine Cup against the modest Ciudad de Bolívar (3-0) and last date drew a valuable tie on the San Lorenzo field (0-0). In any case, it is speculated that next week the Uruguayan will take over as DT Pablo Repetto.
The record between the two is 174 games and favors Independiente with 70 wins against 52 for “Pincha”, while there were 52 draws.
POSSIBLE FORMATIONS
Independent: Rodrigo Rey; Javier Báez, Sergio Barreto, Edgar Elizalde and Damián Pérez; Sergio Ortiz, Iván Marcone and Kevin López; Baltasar Barcia, Tomás Rambert and Martín Cauteruccio. DT: Pedro Monzon.
La Plata students: Mariano Andujar; Leonardo Godoy, Santiago Nuñez, Luciano Lollo, Zaid Romero and Gastón Benedetti; Santiago Ascacibar, Jorge Rodríguez and Fernando Zuqui; Benjamin Rollheiser and Mauro Boselli. DT: Eduardo Dominguez.
Referee: Hernan Mastrangelo.
WAS: German Delfino.
Basketball court: Independent.
Start time: 14.
TV: ESPN Premium.
