Racing-Unión, for the Professional League Cup: what time it is, where it is played and how to watch it

Racing Clubreinforced in quantity and quality, with Gustavo Costa As the new manager, he will look to start the League Cup this Saturday with a home win Santa Fe Unionin a match of the first match of Zone B. The match at the Presidente Perón Stadium, in the city of Avellaneda, will be played starting from 9.00 pm, with the refereeing of Nicola LamolinaDiego Ceballos in the VAR and TNT Sports broadcast.

Racing completed a 2023 in which they tried to win a title, in the Argentine Cup, Copa Libertadores, Professional League and League Cup, but came up empty-handed despite having one of the best teams.

Fernando Gago and interims Sebastián Grazzini-Ezequiel Videla moved on but the team was only intentional, even if in some parts of the season they played at an acceptable level.

For this new phase, the president Vittorio Bianco has chosen an idol like Gustavo Costas, who will face his third stage in Racing with a classified team with the arrival of Adrián Martínez (Instituto), Maximiliano Salas (Palestino/Chile), Facundo Cambeses (Banfield), Bruno Zuculini (River) , Santiago Solari (Defense and Justice), Santiago Sosa (Atlanta/USA), Germán Conti (Colón), Agustín García Basso (Independiente del Valle/Ecuador) and Marco Di Césare (Argentinians), among others.

Compared to the previous season, Emiliano Vecchio, Aníbal Moreno, Gonzalo Piovi, Emiliano Insúa, Gabriel Hauche, Emiliano Saliadarre, Nicolás Oroz, Maximiliano Romero and Agustín Ojeda have emigrated.

For its part, the Union, with Christian “Kily” Gonzalez He suffered a lot last season to escape relegation, he did it in the last match by beating Tigre, and in 2024 everything indicates that he will once again find himself in that unpleasant fight to avoid going to Nacional.

Now, in a very special year due to the absence of its historic rival Colón, who lost the category, the “Tatengue” team will have to face a challenging debut against the “Academia”.

The reinforcements obtained on the transfer market were Adrián Balboa (Pereira/Colombia), Lucas Gamba (Central Córdoba), Miguel Torrén (Argentinos), Bruno Pittón (Newell’s), Mauro Pittón (Central Córdoba) and goalkeeper Thiago Cardozo (Peñarol/Uruguay), while that among the victims are Franco Calderón, Franco Troyansky, Sebastián Moyano and the character Kevin Zenón.

But Unión’s lineup will depend on eliminating the inhibitions of Paraguay’s Capiatá ($600,000 for 60% of Junior Marabel’s passing), Paraguay’s Deportivo Itapuense ($32,059 for Juan Carlos Portillo’s coaching) and Independiente Medellín of Colombia ($65,000 for Bryan Castrillón). .