Boca vs Racing: for the International Super Cup: time, tv and formations

Mouth and Junior2022 Professional League Champion and racing club, winner of the Champions Trophy, is the protagonist this Friday of the final of the first edition of the International Super Cup to be held in Abu Dhabi. The match, broadcast by DSports and Flow, will be played from 12:30 in Argentina at the Hazza bin Zayed stadium in the city of Al Ain, the referee will be the Argentine fernando rapalliniwho will have Juan Pablo Belatti and Diego Bonfá as assistants, while Héctor Paletta will take care of the VAR.

Each team will receive $1,300,000 for participating in this Super Cup and another $200,000 will be added to the winning team.

An agreement between the AFA and the Abu Dhabi Sports Council (ADSC) has given birth to this unprecedented trophy, classified as “International” when played abroad and which will take place annually in parallel with the Argentine Super Cup, which this year will be held on March 1st. In principle it should have been Boca-Patronato -champion of the 2022 Argentine Cup- the match to be moved to the United Arab Emirates, but in the AFA it has devised a new trophy and the final between “xeneizes” and entre ríos will take place in Argentina .

Everything surrounding this match is very unique, such as both teams traveling to the UAE on the same flight. The situation was uncomfortable taking into account the history between the two teams in the final of the Champions Trophy in San Luis on November 2nd.

Racing won that final 2-1, after extra time, and the match was abandoned after 118 minutes after Boca suffered six red cards (Darío Benedetto, Frank Fabra, Luis Advíncula, Alan Varela, Sebastián Villa and Diego González) and the Racing three (Jonathan Galván , Carlos Carbonero and Carlos Alcaraz, sold to English Southampton).

Despite the expulsions, the AFA has ruled that players who received the red card in San Luis will be able to participate in the final.

To avoid inconvenience, the location of each campus was drawn on the round trips. That of Racing occupied the front of the plane, that of Boca in the rear sector and on return the seats will be reversed. The referees traveled on the same flight and fortunately in the stopover in Madrid the players of both teams greeted each other like professionals, regardless of what happened two months ago.

As for accommodation, each campus stayed in a different hotel in the Emirates. Boca did it at Hili Rahyhaan, while Racing at Radisson Blue Al Rain, also having several fields to coach.

Up until now, Boca have played a triangular match with Independiente and Everton from Chile, both matches without goals.

For this Friday, coach Hugo Ibarra will have to decide who he will save, as Agustín Rossi, who has signed a pre-contract with Flamengo from Brazil, Sergio Romero, who is not physically complete, and Javier García have traveled.

In the defensive zone Boca are without several injured players such as Nicolás Figal and Marcos Rojo, and in central defense there will be Facundo Roncaglia and Agustín Sández in the back, while Ibarra would still bet on Norberto Briasco as he did in San Luis, where he scored a goal.

As for the attack, the champions of the League will face the match with its maximum potential, including the Colombians Sebastián Villa and Darío Benedetto.

Racing clarified in the early hours of this Friday in the United Arab Emirates the two doubts it had from an administrative delay that kept two of its reinforcements disabled, midfielder Maximliano Moralez, who returned to the club after crossing Europe and the United States, and the Chilean side Oscar Opazo.

The options that Gago had up to now for the respective places were those of Iván Pillud (he was in a press conference with Alan Varela of Boca) as right-back, Chilean position, and the former Union, of Santa Fe, also a recent reinforcement , Juan Nardoni or, failing that, Nicolás Oroz, for Moralez. But now both will be available, while the arrival of the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero is still awaited in Racing.

= Probable formations =

Boca Juniors: Javier García or Agustín Rossi or Sergio Romero; Luis Advíncula, Facundo Roncaglia, Agustín Sández and Frank Fabra; Guillermo “Pol” Fernández, Alan Varela and Juan Ramírez; Norberto Briasco or Óscar Romero, Darío Benedetto and Sebastián Villa. DT: Hugo Ibarra.

Racing: Gabriel Arias; Óscar Opazo, Leonardo Sigali, Emiliano Insúa and Gonzalo Piovi; Jonathan Gomez, Anibal Moreno, Maximiliano Moralez; Gabriel Hauche, Massimiliano Romero and Johan Carbonero. DT: Fernando Gago.

Referee: Fernando Rapallini.

Stage: Hazza bin Zayed.

Start time: 12.30 from Argentina

Televise: DSports (channels 610 and 1610) and Flow (channel 116).