Demichelis and river injury karma: David Martínez to undergo surgery and miss the entire semester

Central defender of Flat River, David MartinezTomorrow he will be operated on at the Clinica Trinidad in San Isidro due to patellar tendinopathy in his right knee and will not be able to play until the second half of the year.

Martínez, who had been on the bench against TigerAfter nearly two months of differentiated work during the preseason, suffered from the injury last Sunday when he was part of substitute football training against a youth team.

The Paraguayan nationalised defender, who has been suffering from knee problems since last year when he lost continuity in the squad, played in just 12 games in the second half of the year after being one of the figures of the team in 2021.

the DT Martin Demichelis He tried to recover it with special treatments, he also started in the first friendly against Unión La Calera, but the knee couldn’t resist and that’s why the team doctor, Pedro Hansing, will intervene tomorrow at 8 in the morning.

Since the arrival of Demichelis, injuries have been a problem for the manager like him Matías Kranevitter suffered a fractured right fibula and ligament injury in the same ankle in the first preseason friendly against La Calera in San Luis on December 22. After the arthroscopy they underwent Nicholas of the Cross AND Paul Diazthe tear of Agostino Palavecino and the synovitis of matías suareztorn ligaments Bruno Zuculini.

In addition, young Franco Alfonso worked differently this morning and defender Emanuel Mammana, who suffered a muscle injury to his right hamstring after the start of the first match, has not yet been acquitted.

Against this backdrop, the team trained this morning on Ezeiza’s property and both Chilean Díaz and Uruguayan De la Cruz worked side by side with each other and will be part of the squad for Sunday with the possibility of adding minutes from the bench.

As for the possible starting team, some changes are expected that will only be confirmed in the hours before the match, but Leandro González Pírez, José Paradela, Agustín Palavecino and Pablo Solari have chances to enter.

So, a possible 11 to face Arsenal on Sunday would be with: Franco Armani; Robert Rojas, Leandro González Pírez, Enzo Díaz and Milton Casco; Enzo Pérez or Palavecino, Ignacio Fernández, Santiago Simón and José Paradela; Miguel Borja or Solari and Salomón Rondón.

River Plate will return to training tomorrow afternoon at Monumentalwhere it will concentrate again even after the completion of the work phase in the San Martín and Centenario stalls sectors.

The match against the Viaducto team, which will start at 19:15 and will be valid for the fifth date of the Lega Professionisti tournament, It will have a full stadium facility with nearly 80,000 River fans and members They have already booked their seats.

River have 9 points in the tournament after beating Tiger 1-0 and comes from their victory 3-2 at Banfield in the tie-break to reach the final of the Champions Trophy, while Arsenal add just 1 point and are bottom of the table.