River Plate, with an impeccable performance in the Professional Soccer League (LPF), will host Sporting Cristal from Peru today, in search of their first win in the current edition of the Copa Libertadores.
The match, valid for the second date of Group D, will be played from 9:00 p.m. at the Monumental stadium, with arbitration by the Colombian Jhon Ospina and television by Telefe, Fox Sports and the Star+ platform.
The “millionaire” will debut as a local after the setback in Bolivia, on the first date against The Strongest (3-1) at the height of La Paz.
After that defeat, Martín Demichelis’s team added three victories in a row in the local tournament, which leads with 30 points, six more than San Lorenzo.
River has won eight of the last nine games it has played in all competitions, and only conceded those three goals at the start of the 2023 Copa Libertadores.
Sporting Cristal entered the group stage after eliminating Huracán in the last qualifying stage, but in their presentation they suffered a severe setback against Fluminense 3-1 at the National Stadium in Lima.
This will be the seventh cross between River and Sporting Cristal in Conmebol tournaments and in the previous ones the Argentine team won five and only lost one.
– Probable Formations –
River Plate: Franco Armani; Milton Casco, Leandro Gonzalez, Paulo Diaz and Enzo Diaz; Ignacio Fernandez, Enzo Perez, Rodrigo Aliendro and Esequiel Barco; Solomon Rondon or Jose Paradela and Lucas Beltran. DT: Martin Demichelis.
Sporting Cristal: Renato Solis; Jhilmar Lora, Gianfranco Chávez, Ignacio Loyola and Nilson Loyola; Jesús Pretell, Jesús Castillo and Jostin Alarcón; Washington Corozo or Leandro Sosa, Brenner and Joao Grimaldo. DT: Tiago Nunes.
Referee: Jhon Ospina (Colombia)
VAR: Juan Lara (Chile)
Court: River Plate.
Start time: 21.
TV: Telefe, Fox Sports and Star+.
