Racing Club will be home tomorrow against Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero with the demand of winning to maintain the chances of qualifying for the playoffs of the Professional Football League Cup (LPF) and reaching a place in the 2024 Copa Sudamericana.
The match, for the 12th. date of Zone B of the LPF Cup, will be played at the Presidente Perón Stadium in the city of Avellaneda, from 6:30 p.m., with the arbitration of Fernando Echenique, the VAR in charge of Pablo Dóvalo and televised by TNT Sports .
Racing is entering the final stretch of a season in which it always threatened to be the protagonist and was left empty-handed, whether in the Professional League, Copa Libertadores and Copa Argentina.
Now, without coach Fernando Gago, who resigned after losing in the classic against Independiente, he is trying, amid irregular performances, defensive failures and discontent among his fans, to qualify for the quarterfinals of the League Cup and also to win a quota for next year’s Sudamericana.
Led by the duo Sebastián Grazzini-Ezequiel Videla, since president Víctor Blanco is still not convinced that DT will hire, Racing needs to beat the Santiago team to achieve its goals.
Racing has 17 units in Zone B, behind the leaders Belgrano, Godoy Cruz and Central Córdoba with 18, and with a win it would take an important step towards the classification, while in the annual table it has 53 units and if it wins it would enter the zone of the South American Cup.
The technical duo would include Nazareno Colombo as a starter at the back for Gonzalo Piovi and there is a chance that Emiliano Vecchio will be a starter coming in for Agustín Almendra or Juan Nardoni.
Central Córdoba has six dates without defeats and for the moment enters the playoffs, although the team led by Omar de Felipe still should not relax regarding relegation since in the annual table it has 47 points.
In their history in AFA tournaments they played six times with three wins for Racing and three draws. However, “Ferroviario” beat Racing at home in the 2021 League Cup, 1-0 with a goal from Carlo Lattanzio.
– Probable formations –
Racing Club: Gabriel Arias; Facundo Mura, Leonardo Sigali, Nazareno Colombo and Gabriel Rojas; Juan Nardoni or Emiliano Vecchio, Aníbal Moreno, Agustín Almendra or Emiliano Vecchio; Baltasar Rodríguez; Roger Martínez, Gabriel Hauche. Coach: Sebastian Grazzini-Ezequiel Videla.
Central Córdoba: Matías Mansilla; José Gómez, Gonzalo Goñi, Sebastián Valdez, Gustavo Canto and Juan Andrés Meli; Leandro Maciel, Mauro Pittón and Enzo Kalinski; Lucas Gamba and Christian Ocampos. DT: Omar De Felippe.
Referee: Fernando Echenique
VAR: Pablo Dóvalo.
Court: Racing Club.
Start time: 18:30
TV: TNT Sports
Source: Ambito
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