Defense and Justice AND Penarol from Montevideo meet today in Florencio Varela for the third round of Group F of the South American Cup.
The match is played from 21:00 at the Norberto “Tito” Tomaghello stadium, is refereed by the Venezuelan José Argote and broadcast by the Star+ platform.
Defensa y Justicia started their South American Cup campaign with a 3-0 defeat against Millonarios, from Colombia, and then bounced back with a 2-1 home win against América Mineiro, from Brazil.
The “Halcón de Varela”, who were South American champions in 2020, have an excellent campaign in the Professional League where they are in third place, just one point behind San Lorenzo and seven behind leaders River Plate.
Peñarol, on the other hand, lost in his two cup appearances, making his debut for América Mineiro with a heavy 4-1 away defeat and then defeated in Montevideo by Millonarios (2-0).
The leading Uruguayan team in their country’s championship needs to win in order not to exhaust the chances of qualifying for the next phase of the South American.
= Probable formations =
Defense and Justice: Luis Unsaín; Agustín SantAnna, Nazareno Colombo, Tomás Cardona and Alexis Soto; David Barbona, Kevin Gutiérrez, Julián López and Santiago Solari; Nicolás Fernández and Gastón Togni. DT: Giulio Vaccari.
Penarolo: Thiago Cardozo; Pedro Milans, Hernan Menosse, Leandro Coelho or Yonathan Rak and Lucas Hernandez; Sebastián Rodríguez, Damián García and Santiago Homechenko; Matías Arezo and Abel Hernández; Facundo Castro. DT: Alfredo Arias.
Referee: Jose Argote.
Stadium: Norberto “Tito” Tomaghello.
Now: 21.00.
TV: Star+
Source: Clarin
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