Banfield host Unión de Santa Fe tonight in their debut in the 2023 Professional League tournament. The game will kick off at 20:00 at the Florencio Sola Stadium, with Silvio Trucco officiating, and will be televised by TNT Sports.
The “Drill” has had a busy break since Javier Sanguinetti, who returned to the club in October, decided not to take into consideration Jesús Dátolo, one of the institution’s references, and the management decided to lower Juan Manuel Cruz to the reserve until not to renew the contract which expires in December of this year.
In addition, the club parted ways with promising striker Ramiro Enrique who moved to MLS in the United States.
Among the additions are outlined introductions from the start of defenders Emmanuel Olivera and Emanuel Insúa plus Uruguayans Brahian Aleman and Sebastián Sosa Sánchez in attack.
Midfielder Eric Remedi, who returned to the club after a spell in the United States, will be on the bench.
Unión, for its part, disarmed its good midfield with the departures of Juan Nardoni to Racing Club and Juan Portillo to Talleres.
The “Tatengue” has ensured the continuity of the Uruguayan goalkeeper Santiago Mele and also of the coach Gustavo Munúa in recent days. He will now try to close the reinforcements requested by the coaching staff to replace the aforementioned losses in midfield.
Banfield and Unión have met 28 times for championship tournaments in the First Division with 14 wins by “tatengue” against 8 by “drill” and six draws.
= Probable formations =
Banfield: Facundo Cambeses; Emanuel Coronel, Alejandro Maciel, Emmanuel Olivera and Emanuel Insúa; Matías Romero, Alejandro Cabrera, Brahian Aleman and Agustín Urzi; Andrés Chávez and Sebastián Sosa Sánchez. DT: Javier Sanguinetti.
Union: Santiago Melè; Federico Vera, Franco Calderón, Claudio Corvalán and Lucas Esquivel; Ezequiel Cañete, Enzo Roldán and Mauro Luna Diale; Imanol Machuca, Junior Marabel and Daniel Juárez. DT: Gustavo Munúa.
Referee: Silvio Makeup.
VAR: Facundo Tello.
Stadium: Florencio Sola.
Starting time: 20.00.
TV: TNT Sports.
Source: Clarin
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