Football Saturday: all the matches played today for the Professional League Cup

While, Ruben Darío Insúa He renewed his contract for two years and now has more replacements, although with the loss of vital pieces from the previous campaign. Augustus Battlethe defenders Rafael Pérez and Gastón Hernándezthe midfielder Jalil Elías and other players are no longer part of the squad.

For the debut, San Lorenzo The Paraguayan scorer will not count from the start Adam Bareiroabsent from the last training sessions for personal reasons and expectant about a possible sale to the Athletico Paranaense from Brazil.

For its part, Lanús, directed by Ricardo Zielinski, will also seek to regain its lost prominence, without neglecting the average table, in which it is located last among the teams with accumulated history in the first division.

The “Granate” is only above the recently promoted, Independent Rivadavia de Mendoza and Deportivo Riestraso they will need to add to avoid risks with relegation as happened in recent seasons.

Probable formations

San Lorenzo: Facundo Altamirano; Jhohan Romaña, Carlos Sánchez and Gastón Campi; Agustín Giay, Elián Irala, Manuel Insaurralde and Malcom Braida; Cristian Ferreira; Cristian Tarragona and Nahuel Barrios. DT: Rubén Insúa.

Lanus: Lucas Acosta; Juan José Cáceres, Abel Luciatti, Nery Domínguez and Braian Aguirre; Luciano Boggio Gonzalo Pérez and Raúl Loaiza; Ramiro Carrera; Augusto Lotti and Marcelino Moreno. DT: Ricardo Zielinski.

Boca – Platense

Boca Juniors will visit Platense today, last runner-up of the Professional Football League Cup. The match will also be Diego Martínez’s official debut as coach and will take place at the Ciudad de Vicente López stadium.

This season, the Xeneize will not participate in the Copa Libertadores de América and will play in the Copa Sudamericana. In this transfer market, Cristian Lema and Kevin Zenón arrived at the club, arrivals that occurred after the departure of Valentine Boatone of the fundamental pieces of the squad.

For the debut, Boca will not have Nicolás Valentini, Exequiel Fernández, Cristian Medina and Leandro Brey, affected by the Venezuela U-23 Olympic Pre-Olympic. Furthermore, it will not be Marcelo Saracchiwho suffered a muscle injury, and Marcos Rojowho was torn before the first friendly of the tune-up and is fully recovering.

For its part, Platense It suffered a strong turnover at the player level. Furthermore, he left his place Martin Palermo on the substitute bench and was replaced by Sebastián Grazzini. The “Brown” suffered several weight losses such as those of Ramiro Macagno -one of the pillars of the campaign-, Juan Infante, Nicolás Morgantini, Franco Díaz and Nicolás Castro.

The Arrivals They were Iván Gómez ( Estudiantes ), Ignacio Vázquez (bought the pass from All Boys), Braian Rivero (Defensa y Justicia), Agustín Quiroga (loan from Independiente), Juan Ignacio Saborido (General Caballero), Juan Pablo Cozzani (loan from Deportivo Maipú), Fernando Juárez (on loan from Talleres), Óscar Salomón (on loan from Boca), Agustín Obando (on loan from Boca) and Carlos Vilalba (on loan from Talleres).

Probable formations

Platense: Juan Pablo Cozzani; Juan Ignacio Saborido, Ignacio Vázquez, Gastón Suso, Raúl Lozano; Facundo Russo, Iván Gómez, Carlos Villalba; Luciano Ferreyra, Ronaldo Martínez and Mateo Pellegrino. DT: Sebastián Grazzini.

Boca Juniors: Sergio Romero; Luis Advíncula, Cristian Lema, Nicolás Figal and Frank Fabra; Guillermo ‘Pol’ Fernández, Jorman Campuzano and Juan Ramírez; Ezequiel Bullaude; Miguel Merentiel and Luca Langoni. DT: Diego Martínez

Racing – Union

The last game of the day will be Racing Club in view of Santa Fe Union. The Academy will debut with a team reinforced in quantity and quality and with Gustavo Costas as a new coach. The meeting will be in President Perón Stadiumin the city of Avellaneda.

Racing completed a 2023 in which it tried to win a title, in the Argentine Cup, Copa Libertadores, Professional League and League Cup, but came up empty-handed. Fernando Gago he resigned and the interims Sebastián Grazzini and Ezequiel Videla remained.

Now the president Victor White chose an idol as a new coach, who will face his third stage in Racing with a ranked squad with the arrival of Adrián Martínez (Instituto), Maximiliano Salas (Palestino/Chile), Facundo Cambeses (Banfield), Bruno Zuculini (River), Santiago Solari (Defense and Justice), Santiago Sosa (Atlanta/USA), Germán Conti (Colón), Agustín García Basso (Independiente del Valle/Ecuador) and Marco Di Césare (Argentines), among others.

From the previous season, they left the club Emiliano Vecchio, Aníbal Moreno, Gonzalo Piovi, Emiliano Insúa, Gabriel Hauche, Emiliano Saliadarre, Nicolás Oroz, Maximiliano Romero, and Agustín Ojeda.

For its part, Union, with Christian “Kily” González He suffered a lot last season to escape from descenthe did it just on the last date by beating Tigre.

The reinforcement obtained in the market were Adrián Balboa (Pereira/Colombia), Lucas Gamba (Central Córdoba), Miguel Torrén (Argentinos), Bruno Pittón (Newell’s), Mauro Pittón (Central Córdoba) and goalkeeper Thiago Cardozo (Peñarol/Uruguay), while that among the casualties are Franco Calderón, Franco Troyansky, Sebastián Moyano and the figure Kevin Zenón.

Possible formations

Racing Club: Gabriel Arias Gastón Martirena, Leonardo Sigali, Germán Conti and Gabriel Rojas, Leonardo Miranda, Agustín Almendra or Santiago Sosa and Jonathan Gómez; Juan Fernando Quintero; Roger Martínez and Santiago Solari. DT: Gustavo Costas.

Union: Nicolás Campisi; Francisco Gerometta, Franco Pardo, Miguel Ángel Torrén and Claudio Corvalán; Mateo Del Blanco, Joaquín Mosqueira, Lionel Verde and Enzo Roldán; Nicolas Orsini