In the first leg played last week at the José Amalfitani stadium, in Liniers, Vélez won 1-0 with a goal from Lucas Janson, from a penalty kick, therefore, with a win or a tie, the Velez team will go through the phase.
If River wins by my minimum difference, there will be a definition through shots from the penalty spot and if it wins by a greater margin, it will advance to the quarterfinals.
The winner of this tie will play in the quarterfinals against the winner of the series between Talleres de Córdoba and Colón de Santa Fe, who equaled 1-1 in the first leg held at the Mario Kempes stadium in Córdoba and who will play revenge tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. in the capital of Santa Fe.
The Liniers result was determined based on the disparity in the performance of both teams. River played one of the games of the poorest level in memory under the leadership of Marcelo Gallardo, while Vélez, with the Uruguayan Alexander “Cacique” Medina as DT, produced a remarkable task that only lacked greater effectiveness in the goal. defended by Franco Armani to widen the difference.
The “Muñeco” Gallardo did not appeal to simplistic statements at the end of the first leg and pointed out “we cannot play worse than this” and his sincerity was endorsed when he pointed out “The positive was the result, it is a minimal advantage, we must improve a lot” .
Even so, it remains floating in the air that Vélez missed the enormous possibility of reaching Núñez with an advantage of more than one goal that would have allowed him to play more relaxed and with a greater margin of error.
In River there are individuals such as Enzo Pérez and Enzo Fernández, among others, who are not going through a good current situation and it is likely that tomorrow the Uruguayan Nicolás De la Cruz, the “Millionaire”, as Gallardo marked it, “needs to recover his identity”.
Vélez, who has a promising litter of players made up of Diego Gómez (19 years old), Máximo Perrone (19), Nicolás Garayalde (22), Santiago Castro (17), Abel Osorio (20), should play an intelligent game in Núñez .
Medina’s team has the experience of Lucas Pratto, Walter Bou, Janson and Leonardo Jara, plus a player like Lucas Orellano, 22 years old and unbalanced when facing rival defenders with the ball dominated.
Finally, Álvarez’s farewell to the City of “Pep2 Guadiola (he will present it next Sunday) will be the most emotional touch of the night. The departure of the remarkable 22-year-old scorer (he has 54 goals in 117 games) will be very complicated to hide for River.
While in River (which adds two straight defeats in the Professional League) it is very likely that the Uruguayan De la Cruz will enter as an outstanding note, in Vélez the veteran Uruguayan defender Diego Godín, 36 years old and with a tendinitis that prevented him from making his debut after joining just two weeks ago from Atlético Mineiro, from Brazil.
In the record between the two for the Copa Libertadores they played 10 times, with two wins for Vélez, one for River and seven draws.
When will River vs Velez play?
The round of 16 match will be played starting at 9:30 p.m. at the Monumental de River stadium and will be refereed by the Chilean Roberto Tobar. In charge of the VAR will be the Brazilian referee Rafael Traci.
Where to watch River vs Vélez
The duel between Buenos Aires in the Copa Libertadores will be televised by Fox Sports.
probable formations
River Plate: Franco Armani; Emanuel Mammana, Paulo Díaz, David Martínez and Milton Casco; Enzo Perez; Enzo Fernández, Nicolás De la Cruz and José Paradela or Agustín Palavecino; Julian Alvarez and Braian Romero. DT: Marcelo Gallardo.
Velez Sarsfield: Lucas Hoyos; Leonardo Jara, Matías De Los Santos, Diego Gómez and Francisco Ortega; Nicolás Garayalde, Máximo Perrone and Luca Orellano; Lucas Pratto, Lucas Janson and Walter Bou. DT: Alexander Medina.
Source: Ambito
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