Newell’s old boys and Bolivian Flowering They will meet this Tuesday in the city of Rosario in what will be an unprecedented duel, since these two teams have never seen each other in the Copa Sudamericana. The group E match takes place from 19:00 at the Coloso Marcelo Bielsa stadium under the arbitration of the Colombian Jhon Hinestroza.
The team led by Gabriel Heinze will try to defend the leadership of the group, which leads with 3 points, after having prevailed in his visit to the Chilean Bold Italian (0-1), and he will do it against the last one, who fell in the first round against the Brazilian Saints from the same marker.
The rosarini come from this weekend’s home defeat in the Argentine league against Flat River (0-1), leader of the local tournament, which precedes Newell’s by twelve units. Furthermore, this defeat took away the unbeaten record they had held at home since September 2022, as well as the record of not having conceded a goal in their stadium since the same date.
For its part, Blooming comes to the duel against the Argentines after beating (3-1) this weekend against guabira. However, the Santa Cruz de la Sierra team is in the lower zone of the table in the Bolivian league, in which it accumulates only 5 points in 9 games.
This team, semi-finalists in the Copa Libertadores in 1985, has never gone beyond the second stage of the Sudamericana, a competition it is playing for the seventh time.
At the head of the Bolivian bench is the Argentine Carlos Bustoswhich accumulates several championships between the Mexicans Monarcas Morelia and Dorados de Sinaloa and the Peruvian Alianza Lima, the last team he led before signing for Blooming after six months without a guide.
Source: Clarin
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