For this game it was decided, as in the fourth date with Newell’s Old Boys in Rosario, that the Cordoba World Cup stadium have visiting fans, so that already 10,000 “millionaire” supporters assured their presence to encourage their team in Cordoba.
River has 22 points, is an escort for Racing (24), and will try to achieve its fourth win in a row in the local competition to direct its classification to the next stage.
The coach of the “Millionaire”, Marcelo Gallardo, plans a rotation of starting players against the Cordoba team, to avoid the overload of matches ahead of the final stretch of the group stage of the Copa Libertadores and the definition of the Copa de la Professional League, with the novelty that he concentrated for the first time since his return from the loan in Colón, from Santa Fe, at attacking midfielder Cristian Ferreyra.
River played five games in just 17 days with almost the same team, since there were only changes forced by the injuries of Esequiel Barco and Robert Rojas and the return of David Martínez to central defense.
For that reason, care has already begun, especially for Julián Álvarez, who could not play in the win (2-1) against Banfield due to hamstring discomfort during the warm-up and this week he only did very light tasks.
But the bad news of the day was Marcelo Gallardo today when it was found that the Colombian Juan Fernando Quintero, who was going to start tomorrow, suffered a problem in his left hamstring and will not be in Córdoba.
River has six straight games remaining without weeks of rest between the Libertadores and the League. After facing Talleres tomorrow, he will receive Atlético Tucumán, then he will travel to Chile to play against Colo Colo, the following weekend he will appear in Junín against Sarmiento and then he will face his trip to Fortaleza, Brazil, on May 5.
The injured Javier Pinola and Barco, who suffer from muscle strains, will only be available in May.
The Cordovan team is going through an opposite reality, although with a load of matches similar to those of Gallardo, since it also participates in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores, in which it won one match and lost the other, but without making a foothold in the League Cup, in which he occupies the last place in his area, with five points and a single win in the 10 games played.
The arrival of the Portuguese coach Pedro Caixinha at the end of March, to replace Ángel Hoyos, did not change the present of the team too much, and although there was a change in the attitude of the players, the results are still far from what was expected.
With Caixinha leading the squad, the ?T? they only won the debut match of the Libertadores, at the Kempes 1-0 against the Catholic University of Chile, a competition in which they lost to Flamengo at the Maracana (3-1) last week, while they suffered three defeats in the local competition in a row, against Gimnasia (2-1), Defense and Justice (5-1) and Argentinos Juniors (2-1).
Only before the ?Hawk? of Florencio Varela, the DT chose a completely alternative formation and suffered a hard fall at home, so he expects that tomorrow he will maintain a base of starting players -although he no longer has a chance of qualifying for the quarterfinals- and the rotation will be carried out on Saturday, when he visits Banfield.
It is that next week, on Tuesday 26, Talleres will receive Sporting Cristal in a key duel to define their destiny in the Libertadores.
The history of meetings between these teams shows that they met 56 times, with 29 wins for River, 14 successes for Talleres and 13 draws.
When do River and Talleres play
This Wednesday’s game will begin at 7:00 p.m., with the arbitration of Patricio Loustau.
Where to see River – Workshops
The duel for date 11 of the League Cup will be televised live on TNT Sports
Probable formations of River and Talleres
Workshops: Guido Herrera; Gastón Benavides, Matías Catalán, Rafael Pérez and Ángelo Martino; Juan Méndez, Rodrigo Villagra, Héctor Fértoli and Matías Esquivel; Michael Santos and Federico Girotti. DT: Pedro Caixinha.
River Plate: Franco Armani; Andrés Herrera, Jonatan Maidana, Leandro González Pirez and Elías Gómez; Bruno Zuculini; Santiago Simón, Tomás Pochettino, Agustín Palavecino and José Paradela; Brian Romero. DT: Marcelo Gallardo.
Referee: Patricio Loustau.
Field: Mario Alberto Kempes Stadium.
Time: 19.
TV: TNT Sports.
Source: Ambito
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