River comes from the quarter-finals of the Copa Argentina after beating Defense and Justice.
River Plate it will be local this Sunday before Central Barracksin the first match between the two in the First Division in professionalism, with the need to succeed in order to continue fighting for the command, on the 17th of the Professional League.
The match will be played at the Más Monumental stadium, in River, in the Núñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires, starting at 20:30, with the arbitration of Germán Delfino and the television of TNT Sports.
Goalkeeper Franco Armani, who will be replaced by Ezequiel Centurión, will not be at the River due to injury, and coach Marcelo Gallardo’s other doubt is in defense as right-back Andrés Herrera has a blow to the instep and if he fails to play the correntino He will be replaced by Elías Gómez.
For his part Barracas will not have Paraguayan striker Cristian Colman due to inflammation in his right hamstring, nor Colombian striker Sebastián Rincón, with a problem in his right adductor, and goalkeeper Rodrigo Saracho will remain sidelined for one right leg quadriceps injury.
River and Barracas have never played in First Division competition as professionals, but instead played as amateurs, between 1920 and 1931, adding 13 games with a “millionaire” advantage of seven wins to two and four draws.
However, they played very recently and for the Argentine Cup, on July 13 in San Luis, for the 16th in the final, Gallardo’s team won 3-0 with goals from Agustín Palavecino (brace) and Milton Casco.
probable formations
River: Ezequiel Centurión, Elías Gómez or Marcelo Herrera, Emanuel Mammana, Paulo Díaz and Milton Casco: Rodrigo Aliendro, Enzo Pérez, Nicolás de la Cruz and Juan Fernando Quintero; Lucas Beltran and Pablo Solari. SD: Marcelo Gallardo.
Central Barracks: Cristian Arce; Facundo Mater, Nicolás Ferreyra, Gonzalo Paz and Juan Ignacio Diaz; Pablo Mouche, Carlos Arce or Dylan Glaby, Iván Tapia and Fernando Valenzuela; Neri Bandiera and Bruno Sepulveda. SD: Rodolfo De Paoli.
Referee: German dolphin. VAR: Ettore Paletta.
stage: River Plate.
Start time: 20:30
TV: TNT Sport.
Source: Clarin
