Racing Club faces a challenging first visitor test in the cycle this Monday Gustavo Costa when you visit Students from La Plata, one of the three leaders of Group B, for the third round of the Professional League Cup. The match at the UNO-Jorge Luis Hirschi Stadium will start at 9.30pm, with refereeing by Nicolás Ramírez (Darío Herrera in VAR) and broadcast by ESPN Premium.
The two teams started the season with the aspiration of fighting for the title, awaiting their debut at international level: Estudiantes in the Copa Libertadores and Racing in the Copa Sudamericano.
The “Academy” had an unpleasant surprise in its debut, falling in the Cilindro de Avellaneda against Unión de Santa Fe (0-1), a rival that fought to stay in the First Division until the last match last year .
However, they recovered in time and beat Tigre (3-0) on the same stage, for the second round, in a match that they led with two goals in the first ten minutes.
Between one presentation and another, Costas changed more than half the team, dissatisfied with the production of the first day, in which he saw a “disastrous” Racing team. This Monday he will make some changes again, but due to an injury, since he will not have the goalkeeper Gabriel Arias or the Colombian scorer Roger Martínez available.
Estudiantes has won everything they have officially played this year. First they started their title defense in the Argentine Cup on the right foot (3-0 against Argentino de Monte Maíz), then they achieved victories over Belgrano de Córdoba and Unión, both 1-0, in the League Cup .
Eduardo Domínguez’s team leads Group B with an ideal score together with Godoy Cruz de Mendoza and Newell’s Old Boys from Rosario.
= Probable lineups =
Students (La Plata): Matías Mansilla; Eros Mancuso, Federico Fernández, Zaid Romero and Gastón Benedetti; Fernando Zuqui, Enzo Pérez, Santiago Ascacibar and José Sosa; Javier Correa and Mauro Méndez. DT: Eduardo Domínguez.
Racing Club: Facundo Cambeses; Tobías Rubio, Santiago Sosa and Agustín García Basso; Santiago Solari, Agustín Almendra, Bruno Zuculini and Gabriel Rojas; Juan Fernando Quintero, Adrián Martínez and Maximiliano Salas. DT: Gustavo Costas.
Referee: Nicolás Ramírez.
VAR: Darío Herrera.
Stadium: Estudiantes (La Plata).
Starting time: 9.30pm
Television: ESPN Premium.
Source: Clarin
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