Benedict has scored two goals against Tigre and wants to continue his streak. Photo: Marcelo Carroll.
Boca Juniors, current soccer champion in Argentina, face Barracas Central in the Floresta district of Buenos Aires, in the outgoing match of the five that will give continuity to the fourth round and in which they will try to add a new success in the Professional League Football (LPF).
The match will be played starting at 9.30 pm on the All Boys pitch, where Barracas Central will be located, will be refereed by Patricio Loustau and broadcast on television by TNT Sports.
The “Xeneize” team led by Sebastián Battaglia have 6 points in the national tournament, the result of two victories, the most recent over Tigre (5-3) last Wednesday, and a surprising defeat in Santiago del Estero against local Central Córdoba.
Their rival, Barracas Central, started the tournament with a draw against the inhabitants of Santiago and Tigre, and the last match lost in Floresta with the Unión de Santa Fe (2-1).
In their latest presentation, Boca showed two diametrically opposed faces, one when they attacked with an unbalanced offensive trio consisting of Colombian Sebastián Villa, Santiago’s Exequiel Zeballos and Darío Benedetto, who devastated Tigre’s defense.
The other image that Boca left was a certain defensive fragility, especially due to the right sector occupied by Marcelo Weigandt and Nicolás Figal, who will leave the team, as well as the promising young Aaron Molinas, in this case not for poor performance but because Paraguayan Oscar Romero is in a position to play right from the start.
The changes that Battaglia will have will be the receipts of Luis Advíncula, Carlos Izquierdoz and Romero for the aforementioned Weigandt, Figal and Molinas.
Battaglia’s intention is to field his best team against Barracas Central, the one that will face Corinthians on June 28 in the first leg of the second round of the Copa Libertadores.
In this sense, to visit Corinthians at San Pablo, the only variation with respect to the team that will play in Floresta will be the entry of Agustín “Gusa” Sandez on the left wing in place of Colombian Frank Fabra, who will have to purge a suspension date. for hitting three yellow cards in the group stage.
So Sunday’s match in Floresta will not be one more match, but a kind of test tube for Battaglia who wants to give a line-up that will logically find a higher-ranking rival in Corinthians.
His rival, the “Guapo”, will also retouch his training, because the coach Alfredo Berti was not satisfied with what was stated before the Santa Fe.
In this context, Maximiliano Rodríguez, Iván Tapia, Neri Bandiera, Bruno Sepúlveda and Pablo Mouche will be the owners in place of Jonathan Blanco, Fernando Valenzuela, Juan Manuel Vázquez, Sebastián Rincón and Junior Arias, while Gonzalo Paz and if he does not recover, he will leave his place for Thomas Gutiérrez.
Barracas Central is aware of having to add as many points as possible to stay in the category after being promoted this season, even if in the average table that will determine the two relegations to the First National team he is very well positioned thanks to the good campaign protagonist of the last Italian Cup. League that made Boca champion.
In the League Cup both teams shared Zone B and faced each other in the Bombonera, with Boca winning 2-0 with a brace from “Pipa” Benedetto, even if the match was tied and defined by small details.
Boca have beaten Barracas the five times they have met in history, the previous ones consecutively in 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930.
– Probable formations –
Central Barracks: Rodrigo Saracho; Facundo Mater, Nicolás Ferreyra, Gonzalo Paz or Thomas Gutiérrez and Brian Calderara; Dylan Glaby, Maximiliano Rodríguez, Iván Tapia and Bruno Sepúlveda; Neri Bandiera and Pablo Mouche. DT: Alfredo Gesù Berti.
Boca Juniors: Agostino Rossi; Luis Advíncula, Carlos Izquierdoz, Marcos Rojo and Frank Fabra; Guillermo “Pol” Fernandez, Alan Varela and Oscar Romero; Exequiel Zeballos, Darío Benedetto and Sebastián Villa. DT: Sebastian Battaglia.
Referee: Patrick Loustau.
Basketball court: All the guys (Barracas Central will be local).
Start time: 21:30
TV: TNT Sport.
Source: Clarin
