Defensa y Justicia, located on the podium of the Professional Soccer League (LPF), receives this afternoon Estudiantes de La Plata, also with a very good campaign, in one of the four games that give continuity to the 16th. date of the tournament led by River Plate. The match will be played at the Norberto “Tito” Tomaghello Defensa y Justicia stadium, it is refereed by Leandro Rey Hilfer and televised by TNT Sports.
Florencio Varela’s “Halcón” is third with 28 points, behind River (37) and San Lorenzo (29), with whom they drew 0-0 last date and thus ended a series of four consecutive wins. Their rival, Estudiantes, has 27 points and has four wins in a row, the last one over Vélez 2-0.
Defensa y Justicia, who also competes in the Copa Sudamericana, will make two changes to receive “Pincha” as ordered by his coach Julio Vaccari, in relation to the previous match with San Lorenzo: Julián Malatini for Agustín SantAnna, suspended due to accumulation of reprimands, and the scorer Nicolás Fernández for Juan Miritello.
Estudiantes, for their part, who also competes in the Copa Sudamericana, recovered striker Mauro Boselli, who was not against Vélez, but will not start and Mauro Méndez will play in his place.
Formations:
Defense and Justice: Ezequiel Unsain; Julián Malatini, Nazareno Colombo, Tomás Cardona and Alexis Soto; Julian Lopez, Kevin Gutierrez; Santiago Solari, Nicolás Fernández, Gastón Togni; and David Barbona. DT: Julio Vaccari.
students of La Plata: Mariano Andújar, Leonardo Godoy, Santiago Núñez, Luciano Lollo and Zaid Romero; Gaston Benedetti; Santiago Ascacibar, Jorge Rodríguez, Fernando Zuqui, Benjamin Rollheiser; and Mauro Mendez. DT: Eduardo Dominguez.
Referee: Leandro Rey Hilfer.
VAR: Hector Paletta.
Stadium: Defense and Justice.
start time: 2:00 p.m.
TV: TNT Sports.
Platense – Racing
Racing Club, which obtained one point from the last 18 it played, will try this Sunday to end that negative series when it visits Platense, whose coach Martín Palermo is playing for the job after three straight defeats in the Professional League. The match will be played from 4:30 p.m. at the Ciudad de Vicente López stadium, of the “Calamar” team, with the refereeing of Hernán Mastrángelo and televised by ESPN Premium.
The “Academy” has not won for six dates with a draw and five losses, an adverse series that places it with only 18 units, without a chance to fight for the title and relegated in the qualification for the next season’s cups, either the Libertadores or the South American.
In the present Libertadores, Fernando Gago’s team is in first place in their group, but without a doubt the extensive list of injured, some with a long recovery time such as Emiliano Vecchio, Johan Carbonero, Leonel Miranda and Gonzalo Piovi, contributed to the fall of the team.
In the past dates Anibal Moreno, Gabriel Rojas, Paolo Guerrero (the three will return tomorrow), Matías Rojas, Gabriel Rojas and Maximiliano Romero have joined that list due to various inconveniences.
The bad results are weighing more and more on Fernando Gago, who was surveyed by clubs from Brazil and Saudi Arabia, and if he does not obtain a victory in Vicente López, his continuity will be at risk.
On the Platense side, after a good run of three wins in a row, reality changed and now they have accumulated three losses in a row, remaining second to last in the average table and with a serious risk of relegation.
Probable formations:
Platense: Ramiro Macagno; Nicolás Morgantini, Ignacio Vázquez, Gastón Susso, Sasha Marcich and Marco Pellegrino; Franco Díaz, Iván Rossi and Vicente Taborda; Mauro Quiroga and Nicolas Servetto. DT: Martin Palermo.
racing club: Gabriel Arias; Facundo Mura, Leonardo Sigali, Jonathan Galván and Gabriel Rojas; Nicolás Oroz, Juan Nardoni, Anibal Moreno and Emiliano Saliadarre; Gabriel Hauche and Paolo Guerrero. DT: Fernando Gago.
Referee: Hernán Mastrángelo.
VAR: Diego Abal.
Stadium: Platense
start time: 4:30 p.m.
TV: ESPN Premium.
With information from Telam
