Flat Riverleader of the professional League with a good advantage over its closest rival, this Sunday takes over in the first clásico of the cycle of Martin Demichelis as a coach when receiving Independentwho accumulates 11 presentations without winning, in the outgoing match on the 13th.
The classic is played from 20:30 in the Más Monumental stadium, in the Núñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires, with refereeing by Andrés Merlos and television from the ESPN Premium signal.
River, with 30 points, six more than their guards San Lorenzo and Belgrano (24), have marked the differences with all their rivals and even if football is not an exact science, everything seems to indicate that the national tournament will not escape at Hands on the team now led by Demichelis, who replaced Marcelo Gallardo, the most successful manager in the club’s history.
The “Slumdog Millionaire” comes from the victory against Sporting Cristal, Peruvian, in the Copa Libertadores, and boasts seven consecutive victories in the Professional League and all with an unbeaten fence.
The Independiente is going through a discrete reality, it has been managed for 10 days since Ricardo Zielinskya DT who has known how to embitter River on more than one occasion, the most relevant when being the coach of Belgrano de Córdoba he sent them to relegation in 2011.
El Rojo, who suffers with the fight for permanence as he is only two points behind Arsenal and Unión, the bottom in the annual table which will give the third relegation, clearly goes to Monumental as a ‘point’ even if Zielinski will work to complicate Rijeka as much as possible.
= Probable formations =
River Plate: Franco Armani; Milton Casco, Leandro González Pirez, Paulo Díaz and Enzo Díaz; Enzo Pérez, Rodrigo Aliendro, Ignacio Fernández and Nicolás De la Cruz; Lucas Beltrán and Esequiel Barco. DT: Martin Demichelis.
Independents: Rodrigo Rey; Luciano Gomez, Sergio Barreto and Joaquin Laso; Cristian Báez and Damián Pérez; Iván Marcone, Agustín Mulet and Mauricio Cuero; Martín Cauteruccio and Matías Giménez. DT: Ricardo Zielinski.
Referee: Andres Merlos.
VAR: Ettore Paletta.
Stadium: River Plate.
Starting time: 20.30.
Television: ESPN Premium.
Source: Clarin
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