Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, in full dismay at the death of a fan in his stadium after the police repression recorded in the suspended match against Boca Juniors, this Sunday visits a Banfield who has changed DT again, on the 24th of the Professional League.
The match at the Florencio Sola stadium will start at 15:30 with the arbitration of Pablo Echavarría and broadcast by TNT Sports.
A little more than 48 hours after the tragedy, still in a state of sensitivity for what happened in the Forest, the Gymnastics will have to reconnect with the sporting competition in the final and decisive part of the season.
Néstor Gorosito’s side, sixth on 37 points, still have a chance to fight for the lead, now occupying Atlético Tucumán (44), and are defending their spot for next year’s Copa Libertadores point by point.
All this was left out on the fateful Thursday night when a terrible police crackdown at the Juan Carmelo Zerillo stadium led to the death of César Regueiro, a man from the La Plata football scene, highly respected in the city, who had witnessed the match with Bocca with his family.
“Lolo” Regueiro, 57, suffered from heart failure during the excesses that occurred inside the stadium due to tear gas that the police launched nearby to disperse an unknown number of fans who were struggling to enter the field.
Banfield arrives at this Sunday’s game with an interim duo (Cristian Vella-Leonardo Testone), made up of the collaborators of the outgoing coach Claudio Vivas.
From Monday the squad will return to occupy Javier Sanguinetti, one of the greatest historical references of the club of the last 25 years.
The “Drill” have lost 3 of their 4 most recent league games – including the classic against Lanús, at home – and were also eliminated from the Copa Argentina in the quarter-finals.
= Probable formations =
banfield: Facundo Cambeses; Luciano Abecasis, Alejandro Maciel, Luis Mago and Aarón Quirós; Mauricio Cuero, Matías Romero, Alan Di Pippa and Julián Palacios; Andres Chavez and Ramiro Enrique. SD: Cristian Vella-Leonardo Testone.
Gym: Rodrigo Rey; Guillermo Enrique, Leonardo Morales, Oscar Piris and Nicolás Colazo; Ramón Sosa, Agustín Cardozo and Benjamín Domínguez; German Brahian; Eric Ramirez and Franco Soldano. SD: Nestor Gorosito.
Referee: Pablo Echavarria.
VAR: Fernando Spinoza.
stage: Bankfield.
Start time: 15.30.
TV: TNT Sport.
Source: Clarin
