River Platepointer of zone A of League Cuptries this Wednesday to maintain its hot streak in the visit to Atletico Tucumán for the fifth appointment. The match will be played starting at 9.30pm, at the Monumental José Fierro stadium in Tucumán, with refereeing by Nazareno Arasa and broadcast by ESPN Premium.
The team led by Martín Demichelis had a good start to the championship. He debuted with a 1-1 draw against Argentinos and then achieved goalless wins against Barracas Central (2-0), Vélez (5-0) and Deportivo Riestra (3-0) for the League Cup, as well to the victory against Excursionistas (3 -0) in the debut of the Argentina Cup.
The team from Tucumán, however, has not yet won in this tournament and has just lost 2-0 against Barracas Central.
Despite the different realities, the Dean’s court is one of those that costs the Millonarios: in River’s last three visits to Tucumán, between 2020 and 2023, the result has always been 1-1.
Considering the intense series of matches at the beginning of the year (7 matches in 21 days) and with an eye on the superclásico against Boca Juniors on Sunday 25 February, coach Demichelis was able to rotate the starting line-up and his “ideal” eleven tomorrow against Atlético Tucumán and on Sunday also against Banfield in Núñez.
In Dean the current situation is not the best, so the technical duo Sergio Gómez and Favio Orsi need a good result to avoid jeopardizing their continuity.
“This moment hurts me a lot because I feel football from deep inside, it hurts me because this is my job, it hurts me for all the people who are behind us, who go to the stadium and put us on the bench??, he declared the striker Marcelo Estigarribia after the defeat against Barracas on the emotional and footballing situation of Atlético Tucumán.
“We are bad. The team is suffering a lot on a mental level, do we create situations and fail to enter them? We have to change our minds, try to go back to being last year’s team”, added ‘Chelo’ in statements to the press in the mixed zone .
-Probable lineups-
Atlético Tucumán: José Devecchi; Néstor Breitenbruch, Gianluca Ferrari, Juan Infante, Matías Orihuela; Renzo Tesuri, Adrián Sánchez, Nicolás Castro and Joaquín Pereyra; Marcelo Estigarribia and Mateo Coronel. DT: Sergio Gómez and Favio Orsi.
River Plate: Franco Armani; Andrés Herrera, Leandro González Pirez, Paulo Díaz or Funes Mori, Enzo Díaz; Nicolás Fonseca, Rodrigo Aliendro; Nacho Fernández or Franco Mastantuono, Esequiel Barco; Facundo Colidio and Miguel Borja. DT: Martin Demichelis.
Court: Monumental José Fierro (Tucumán).
Referee: Nazareno Arasa
VAR: Fernando Rapallini
Time: 9.30pm
Television: ESPN Premium.
Source: Clarin
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