Boca has 26 points in the domestic tournament and raised its spirits with two consecutive victories, in Florencio Varela against Defense and Justice (1-0) and in La Bombonera against Atlético Tucumán (2-1), while the “Sabaleros” added 18 units and they did not find their way in the semester, with DT changes included.
In Boca, the two wins in a row improved the mood but that did not last long, since the injury suffered by the Colombian Villa (he tore the meniscus in his left knee) curtailed much of his chances of fighting for the title.
Is that the team led by Hugo Ibarra lacks functionality and it depends almost exclusively on the saves by Agustín Rossi and the imbalance of Villa, his most decisive player whom he will lose for at least a month.
With the objective in Colón and the sideways glance in the Superclásico next week in La Boca, Ibarra prepared a team that will have seven variants compared to the one that beat the Tucumans, since in addition to Villa two key pieces will be missing like Alan Varela and Guillermo “Pol” Fernández, both suspended, as well as the Peruvian Luis Advíncula, all due to the accumulation of yellow cards.
The positive thing is that captain Marcos Rojo will return after overcoming a tear last July 24 in the victory over Estudiantes de La Plata (3-1) that left him seven dates out (from 10 to 17) and will also start Darío “Pipa” Benedetto, who is sought to get in shape so that he arrives sharp at the match with River.
So Rojo, Benedetto, Facundo Roncaglia, Martín Payero, Esteban Rolón, Norberto Briasco (he has not played since November 25 of last year in the starting line-up) and the youthful Luca Langoni, author of the two goals in the victory over Tucuman and one of the great hopes of the club.
Those who will leave will be the suspended Varela, “Pol” Fernández and Advíncula, plus the other Peruvian, Carlos Zambrano, Juan Ramirez, Luis Vázquez and the injured Villa.
Boca’s emergencies, between injuries and suspensions, motivated “Negro” Ibarra to summon two youths without filming in the first division, central midfielder Mauricio Benítez, category 2004, and extreme Maximiliano Zalazar, born in 2001.
On the Colón side, with an interim coach, Adrián Marini, who took over the technical direction after two cycles that failed, first Julio Falcioni’s and then Sergio Rondina’s, will introduce between two and three variants, one of which is mandatory due to the suspension of midfielder Leonel Picco.
As for the record between the two, it is 79 games and favors the “Xeneizes” widely with 46 wins against 17 for Colón, plus 16 draws.
Probable Formations
Columbus of Santa Fe: Ignacio Chicco; Eric Meza, Paolo Goltz, Facundo Garcés and Rafael Delgado; Baldomero Perlaza, Julián Chicco and Cristian Bernardi; Facundo Farías, Ramón “Wanchope” Abila and Luis Miguel Rodríguez. DT: Adrian Marini.
Boca Juniors: Agustin Rossi; Nicolás Figal, Facundo Roncaglia, Marcos Rojo and Frank Fabra; Martín Payero, Esteban Rolón and Oscar Romero; Luca Langoni, Darío Benedetto and Norberto Briasco. DT: Hugo Ibarra.
Referee:
Hernan Mastrangelo.
Basketball court:
Brigadier Estanislao López, from Colón de Santa Fe.
Start time:
18.
TV:
ESPN Prime.
Source: Ambito
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