racing club draw 1-1 with him flamenco by Jorge Sampaoli in the Cylinder de Avellaneda and for the moment shares the leadership of Group A of the Libertadores Cup of America with the Brazilian team. At the end of the first half, Gabriel Barbosa opened the account for Mengao and equalized it at 74 Nicholas Orozfree kick.
In an even first half, with the team of Fernando Gago pressing and generating the most dangerous situations against Santos’ goal, such as a free kick by Nicolás Oroz that the goalkeeper rejected, the break occurred 25 minutes after the expulsion of gabriel hauche. The Racing striker committed an offense that earned him the second yellow card that referee Jesús Valenzuela showed him without hesitation.
Taking advantage of the numerical advantage, Flamengo began to handle the ball and managed to disturb Gabriel Arias. gabigol he had a great opportunity to open the scoring, but failed incredibly in the finish. The scorer claimed responsibility in stoppage time after a pass to the center of the Chilean area Eric Thumb at the start of a free kick that found free barbosa for a first definition.
The Academy alone leads his zone with ideal score after the victories against nublense in Chile (2-0) and aucas of Ecuador at home (3-2), while at the local level it is located in the 14th position with 18 points, 16 behind the leader River Plateand comes from losing 3-1 against Boca Juniors last Saturday.
In the event that Racing achieves a victory against the Brazilian team, it will reach nine points and will be close to obtaining a ticket to the round of 16 of the continental contest. In addition, the game acquires a singular importance for the coach Fernando Gagoquestioned by a sector of the fans after the string of five games without victories with a draw and four defeats in the local tournament, the last one against Boca in The Bombonera.
He MengaoFor his part, he has three points in the zone, after the 2-1 loss against Aucas in his cup debut and the 2-0 win against Ñublense in Rio de Janeiro. In it Brazilianthe team led by the Argentine coach Jorge Sampoli It is located in 13th place with three units, at a rate of one victory and two defeats, the last one by 3 to 2 against Botafogo.
On the next day of the Copa Libertadores, Racing will travel to Ecuador while Flamengo will go to Chili.
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Racing: Gabriel Arias; Facundo Mura, Leonardo Sigali, Emiliano Insúa, Gabriel Rojas; Juan Ignacio Nardoni, Aníbal Moreno, Nicolás Oroz; Gabriel Hauche, Maximiliano Romero and Paolo Guerrero. DT: Fernando Gago.
Flamengo: Saints; Wesley, Fabricio Bruno, Léo Pereira, Ayrton Lucas; Arturo Vidal, Erick Pulgar, Thiago Maia and Everton Ribeiro; Pedro and Gabriel Barbosa. DT: Jorge Sampaoli.
Stadium: President Peron
Referee: Jesus Valenzuela (Venezuela)
TV: Fox Sports
Table of positions of Group A:
TRUSTEE VS. MELGAR
Patronage de Paraná plays for the first time in its stadium, the Priest Bartholomew Grellaa Copa Libertadores match against melgar of Peru for the third date of the Group H. Both teams want to leave behind the bad results and achieve their first victory in the tournament in a match directed by the Bolivian referee Gery Vargas and televised Fox Sports 2 and Star+.
It is the second game of Pattern on their field so far this year (1-1 with Estudiantes de Río Cuarto), since they played local at the Atlético Paraná campus while spare parts were advancing to enable their stadium by Conmebol. The home match against National Athletic of Colombia for the Libertadores was played in the stadium of Columbus of Santa Fewith a 2-1 victory for the Medellín team.
Regarding his international campaign, in his two presentations he left a good image. However, he is last in the group with no wins and no points: adding up both competitions, he has won two of the last 9 games.
On the side of the Peruvian team, Melgar did not achieve a victory in the current Libertadores either, harvesting only one point and coming from losing 3-1 in Colombia with Atlético Nacional.
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Patronage: Matias Budiño; Lautaro Geminiani, Sergio Ojeda, Cristian González, Facundo Cobos; Damián Arce, Nicolás Domingo, Nazareno Solís, Jorge Váldez Chamorro; Juan Cruz Esquivel and Mateo Levato. DT: Walter Otta.
Melgar: Carlos Caceda; Pedro Ibáñez, Alec Deneumostier, Leonel Galeano and Paolo Reyna; Alexis Arias, Horacio Orzán, Tomás Martínez; Cristian Bordacahar, Bernardo Cuesta, Luis Iberico. DT: Mariano Soso
Stadium: Priest Bartholomew Grella
Referee: Gery Vargas (Bolivia)
TV: Fox Sports 2 and Star+
Table of positions of Group H:
With information from Telam.
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