Boca Juniors, who qualified for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores during the week, will host Lanús today in a match valid for date 20 of the Professional Soccer League (LPF), which they will assume with several substitutes because they have an unusual and significant number of injured players.
The match will be played from 8:00 p.m. at La Bombonera, will be refereed by Fernando Echenique and televised by the ESPN Premium signal.
Boca has just 27 points in the domestic tournament, it is a stark distance from the leader River (41 and an unfinished match against Defensa y Justicia), and when it had strung together three victories in a row, it stumbled in Sarandí last week against Arsenal, the last of the two tables, the League and the relegation, which beat him 1-0.
However, Boca’s priority objective in the semester is the Libertadores and that victory last Tuesday over Colo-Colo 1-0 at La Bombonera with the goal of Marcelo “Chelo” Weigandt allowed him to consolidate himself as the leader of Group F and advance to the round of 16.
That game against the Chileans left several injured who added to those he already had on the squad, so that to receive Lanús, who is sixth with 32 points and has just won Atlético Tucumán (2-1) at home, DT Jorge Almirón has a real puzzle.
The injured accumulated and the known casualties of Marcos Rojo, Exequiel Zeballos, Martín Payero, Agustín Sández and Gonzalo Morales, were added to those suffered against the Chileans by Frank Fabra, Luca Langoni and Miguel Merentiel, the three torn, plus Luis Advincula, with a ligament injury.
None of them will be available to receive Lanús and neither will “Chelo” Weigandt, who was expelled in Sarandí and will have to purge a suspension date.
As for the record, it is 136 games and widely favors the “Xeneizes”, who won 76 times against 23 for the “Garnet”, while they tied 37 times.
The last time they played at La Bombonera in 2021 and Boca won 4-2 with goals from Marcelo Weigandt, Agustín Almendra, Luis Vázquez and Cristian Pavón, while Ignacio Malcorra and Diego Braghieri scored for Lanús.
– Probable Formations –
Boca Juniors: Javier Garcia; Facundo Roncaglia, Bruno Valdéz, Nicolás Valentini and Valentín Barco; Cristian Medina, Ezequiel “Equi” Fernández, Guillermo “Pol” Fernández and Juan Ramírez; Darío Benedetto and Oscar Romero. DT: Jorge Almirón.
Lanus: Lucas Acosta; Juan Cáceres, Felipe Aguilar, Cristian Lema and Julio Soler; Raúl Loaiza, Tomás Belmonte, Matías Esquivel or Franco Orozco and Luciano Boggio; Leandro Diaz and Pedro De la Vega. DT: Frank Darío Kudelka.
Referee: Fernando Echenique.
VAR: Jorge Balino.
Court: Boca Juniors.
Start time: 20.
TV: ESPN Premium.
Source: Ambito
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