Professional League: Which teams are most affected by the FIFA mid-tournament date?

Gone are the days of first division football Argentina paused when the Selection I had an engagement. Urgent to complete his program sooner Qatar World Cupthe Professional League will play its 21st round this weekend while in various corners of the planet dozens of national teams will play friendlies or official matches. This will mean that several teams will have to face this decisive day in small teams.

Atletico Tucumán, who on Monday reached the top of the tournament with the victory against Argentinos Juniors in La Paternal, will host Estudiantes on Sunday. Will he do without one of his props, Carlo Lampe, who went to France on Tuesday for the duel that the Bolivian team will face on Saturday in Orleans against Senegal. The group goalkeeper who has the second least-beaten barrier of the tournament (only surpassed by Gimnasia) has only received nine goals in 18 games and has kept his goal unbeaten 12 times. It will not be a small absence.

This Tuesday, Gym will have a chance to regain the top when he visits Central Córdoba. Five days later, the Wolf It will be local against Tigre. For these two matches, Néstor Gorosito will not suffer any casualties due to the call-up of the national teams. In fact, the only absence in the expedition to Santiago del Estero was that of Matías Melluso, wounded. His rival, on the other hand, will not have Paraguayan Iván Ramírez, called up by Guillermo Barros Schelotto for Friday’s friendlies against the United Arab Emirates in Wiener Neustadt (Austria) and Tuesday against Morocco in Seville.

The third on the avant-garde podium, Mouth, is the one that will suffer the most for this FIFA date. For his debut as a host of the Colombian national team, with the games against Guatemala in New Jersey on Saturday and against Mexico on Monday in Santa Clara, Néstor Lorenzo called Franco Fabra. And another rookie coach, the Peruvian Juan Reynoso, mentioned Luis Advincula Y Carlos Zambrano to play Saturday with Mexico in Pasadena and Tuesday with El Salvador in Washington.

These three absences are joined by injuries from Exequiel Zeballos, Sebastián Villa (not playing for the rest of the tournament), Norberto Briasco (sprained left ankle) and Nicolás Figal (recovering from a right knee injury). This will put Hugo Ibarra in trouble reuniting the team for the next two games.

The first of those duels will be Friday against Godoy Cruz in the Malvinas Argentinas de Mendoza (the second, Wednesday next week against Quilmes for the Argentine Cup). For that meeting, tombwho still dreams of the title (he has 32 points and is six behind Atlético Tucumán), will also suffer an absence, albeit less heavy: the Paraguayan goalkeeper will be missing Juan Espinolaoften substitute for Diego Rodríguez, also called up by Barros Schelotto.

Racingwho is four points from the top, will also lose two players for Sunday’s match against Unión to Presidente Perón: Gabriel Arias and Eugenio Mena They will play matches against Morocco (Friday in Barcelona) and Qatar (Tuesday in Vienna) with the Chilean team. In any case, the goalkeeper could not have made the gift in the local tournament, as he will be disqualified after being sent off at the end of the match against Platense.

Hurricane, also four points from the top after the draw at the Bombonera, will not be absent due to the call-up of the national teams. However, for Friday’s match against Banfield at Tomás Ducó, Diego Dabove will have to do without captain Lucas Merolla and Santiago Hezze, who has reached the limit of the yellow card. Both will be able to return for the classic with the San Lorenzo.

Yes River still aspiring to keep the Professional League title, he will have to win Saturday against Talleres at Monumental. You have to do it with three victims imposed by the FIFA date: Franco Armani He is already in Miami with the squad led by Lionel Scaloni for the friendlies with Honduras and Jamaica, while the Chilean has also traveled Paolo Diaz and the Uruguayan Nicholas of the Cross (Their teams will face Iran in Sankt Pölten and Canada in Bratislava, respectively).