Estudiantes de La Plata will be home tomorrow against Defensa y Justicia in a match of great importance for both with respect to the objective of qualifying for the League Cup playoffs and also for the 2024 Copa Libertadores.
The meeting, for the 12th. date of Zone B of the League Cup, will take place at the UNO Jorge Luis Hirschi Stadium, with the arbitration of Franco Acita and the VAR with Nicolás Lamolina, and will be televised on Public TV from 8:30 p.m.
Estudiantes has 10 units in Zone B and their chances of qualifying for the quarterfinals are slim, but Eduardo Domínguez’s team has 55 units in the annual table, qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana and three Defense points in the entry zone for the next Libertadores .
Tomorrow’s match is a direct match between two Libertadores contenders and therefore gains importance for Estudiantes, which plans a 2024 without figures such as Mariano Andújar (will play abroad), Mauro Boselli (retires), plus Jorge “Corcho “Rodríguez, Fernando Zuqui and Benjamín Rollheiser, who would not continue in the club.
Defensa, led by Julio Vaccari, lowered its performance after being left out in the semifinals of the Copa Sudamericana (it was eliminated by the champion Sports League of Ecuador) and with 14 points it has a chance of qualifying for the playoffs in the League Cup.
However, it is qualifying for the Libertadores in the annual table and that is the great objective of Florencio Varela’s team, who have become accustomed to participating in international cups over the last five years.
In history they played 10 times, with Defense advantage of five wins against two and three draws.
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Students: Mariano Andújar; Leonardo Godoy, Santiago Núñez, Zaid Romero and Eros Mancuso; José Sosa, Fernando Zuqui or Franco Zapiola, Jorge Rodríguez and Benjamín Rollheiser; Mauro Méndez and Guido Carrillo. DT: Eduardo Domínguez.
Defense and Justice: Enrique Bologna or Cristopher Fiermarín; Agustín SantAnna, Tomás Cardona, Julián Malatini and Darío Cáceres; Nicolás Tripicchio, Alexis Soto, Santiago Solari and David Barbona or Rodrigo Bogarín; Gastón Togni and Lucas Pratto. DT: Julio Vaccari.
Referee: Franco Acita
VAR: Nicolás Lamolina.
Court: Students of La Plata.
Start time: 20:30
TV: Public TV
Source: Ambito
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