Super football Wednesday: Champions with Julián and Lautaro, Racing, Libertadores and the semi-final River vs Banfield

This Wednesday, the first working day of the week in Argentina, tastes like Sunday. Is that the football calendar has established that there are a good number of matches, many of them final, and all to be followed on television from 5pm, or through the web platforms of clarionwith results and plays minute by minute.

In Europe, the Champions League is giving away two great matches for the first leg of the round of 16 with Argentinian players as protagonists. He Manchester City From Pep Guardiola travels to Germany to tackle RB Leipzigwith the always latent alternative of seeing each other on the pitch Giuliano Alvarezsomething relegated behind Erling Haaland in consideration of the Spanish DT. Broadcasts Fox Sports from 5pm.

In Italy, another event of great appeal: the Inter From Lautaro Martinez AND Joachim Correa will look for a good result against the Porto, to confidently go to the rematch in Portugal. The duel also starts at 5pm and is televised by ESPN.

A snack, but on the other side of the world, there will also be football, in this case with the start of the Argentine Cup and three all-or-nothing duels to continue in a tournament that always reserves surprises and the possibility of seeing penalties in case of equality.

From 17:00, Gimnasia de La Plata starts as favorite against Excursionistas. Then it will be the turn of Gabriel Heinze’s Newell’s against Claypole, at 19.20. And at the end of the evening, at 9.40 pm, Racing de Gago plays against San Martín de Formosa, from the Torneo Federal, historic club from the north of our country. All matches will be broadcast by TyC Sports, non-stop.

At 21:00 the first Argentine adventure in the Copa Libertadores begins. Huracán progresses through the standings to the group stage by facing Boston River from Montevideo at the Centenario stadium. The rematch, on March 1, at the Ducó, and the winner will face the winner of the series between Nacional of Paraguay and Sporting Cristal of Peru.

But there’s more, of course. In a single match, starting at 21:00, River and Banfield will play a match to define who will play against Boca for the Champions Trophy corresponding to the year 2020, which was suspended due to calendar problems.

That year Boca won the Super League and the Diego Maradona Cup, which is why the AFA organized a play-off with the runners-up of both competitions in order not to leave a title vacant. River were Boca’s runners-up in the 19-20 Super League which ended a week before the lockdown and Banfield lost to Boca on penalties in the final of the Diego Maradona Cup staged to complete the year after the return of the soccer.

The clash will be at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium in Córdoba and will be broadcast on ESPN Premium and TNT Sports across the country.

A Wednesday that smells like Sunday, full of games.