When do Godoy Cruz vs Boca play for the Professional League
The match will be played this Friday from 7:00 p.m. at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium, in Mendoza, it will be refereed by Pablo Echavarría and televised by ESPN Premium.
About 20,000 Boca fans are expected in the Mendoza stadium, because the provincial authorities enabled the presence of the so-called “neutrals” for the game and the demand for tickets in the previous hours exceeded expectations.
The “Xeneize” team led by Hugo Ibarra has 36 points along with Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, two less than the point guard Atlético Tucumán (38), and comes from a zero-zero draw with Huracán in the match that cut a series of five consecutive wins.
His rival, Godoy Cruz, definitively left behind his concern with relegation and with 32 points he is located in the top lot, although in his last three presentations he tied one and lost two, the most recent against Barracas Central (3-1).
In Boca, the “Black” Ibarra, in his best moment as DT since he took office last July, will have to rebuild the team almost completely due to the fact that he has players affected by the FIFA date and injured.
In this context, Boca has summoned the two starting wingers, the Peruvian Luis Advíncula and the Colombian Frank Fabra, to their selected teams, and will also not be able to count on Marcos Rojo, with just enough physically due to a strong contracture, nor with Nicolás Figal for the second consecutive game due to injury.
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Scorer Darío “Pipa” Benedetto will not travel to Mendoza either, in another sensitive loss for the team’s operation.
As if that were not enough, the other Peruvian of the team, Carlos Zambrano, will not be there, also with his country’s national team, that prevents Ibarra from having a replacement for Figal, and these casualties are added to those of Nicolás Orsini as a replacement for the forwards , plus those that were known in advance: Norberto Briasco, and further back Sebastián Villa and Exequiel Zeballos, these two have longer injuries.
So Marcelo Weigandt, Agustín Sandez and Gabriel Aranda will join the starting team instead of Advíncula, Fabra and Rojo, while Vázquez will replace “Pipa” Benedetto.
Those absences will mean that Boca will have 12 of the 18 who will travel to Mendoza from the lower divisions of the club, including new faces such as Lautaro Di Lollo and Nahuel Genez, 18 and 19 years old, both defenders, and Cordovan striker Gonzalo Morales, 19 years old and top scorer in the Reserve division directed by Mariano Herrón.
Two other youths who will be on the substitute bench as a replacement and better known will be Brandon Cortes and Maximiliano Zalazar.
Boca, who won the Argentine Cup last May and with that title qualified for the 2023 Copa Libertadores, will take on a difficult challenge in Mendoza due to the number and importance of the absent players, in a tournament definition stage.
It is that the team led by Ibarra will play again next Wednesday against Quilmes for the quarterfinals of the Argentine Cup in which they defend the title and with a possible semifinal against River on the horizon, and the following weekend they will have to concentrate again on the League in which he has a chance of being champion.
Of course, to continue at the top, they will have to obtain a good result in Mendoza with a formation that in defense will depend a lot on goalkeeper Agustín Rossi, the midfield is covered with Pol Fernández and Alan Varela, while in offense a greater contribution is expected from Santa Fe Luis Vázquez , who scored just one goal in the tournament.
The men from Mendoza, guided by the technical duo that make up Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez, depend too much on Martín Ojeda to reach the rival goal, especially after Ezequiel Bullaude left for the Dutch Feyenoord, and also because the Uruguayan Salomón Rodríguez lowered his level.
In any case, “Tomba” is a favorite not only because it usually raises its level at home but also because of the practically alternative formation that Boca will put on the field.
The record between “Xeneize” and “Tomba” is 21 games and the advantage is for Boca with 11 wins against three losses, plus seven draws.
The last time Boca appeared in Mendoza was on March 20, 2016 and won 4-1 with goals from Julio Buffarini, Eduardo Salvio, Carlos Izquierdoz and Jorman Campuzano, with the curiosity that none of them are still in the club .
Formations Godoy Cruz vs. Boca for the Professional League
Godoy Cruz: Diego Rodriguez; Pier Barrios, Gianluca Ferrari, José Canale and Franco Negri; Gonzalo Abrego, Nelson Acevedo, Tomás Castro Ponce or Valentín Burgoa and Martín Ojeda; Enzo Larrosa or Tomás Badaloni and Matías Ramírez or Salomón Rodríguez. DT: Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez.
Boca Juniors: Agustin Rossi; Marcelo Weigandt, Facundo Roncaglia, Gabriel Aranda and Agustín Sandez; Guillermo “Pol” Fernández, Alan Varela, Martín Payero and Juan Ramírez or Aaron Molinas; Luca Langoni and Luis Vazquez. DT: Hugo Ibarra.
Referee: Pablo Echavarria.
Field: Malvinas Argentinas, from Mendoza.
Start time: 19.
TV: ESPN Premium.
Source: Ambito
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