2024-04-05 03:01:00
The closing of the first week of competition for the continental cups coincides with the beginning of the 13th and penultimate date of the group stage of the Professional League Cup. This Friday there will be two decisive matches to elucidate the classification in group A. From 7:30 p.m. and with TNT Sports broadcast, the Argentinos leader (24 points) will visit Vélez (21) in Liniers with the certainty that a victory will ensure the advance to the quarterfinals.
More complicated is Independiente (19) that from 9 p.m. and on ESPN Premium will go to the Banfield field (14) to get closer to River, which occupies fourth place in the group with 21 units and is the last team that is moving to the quarterfinals. El Rojo, who suffered a disappointing draw on Sunday against Atlético Tucumán, has almost no alternatives: they will have to beat Taladro and hope that River adds as little as possible on Sunday against Central. A defeat will leave the team and Carlos Tevez, its technical director, in a shaky position.
Argentinos comes toned with two double away victories: first, in the last ball of the night they defeated Instituto in Córdoba by 2 to 1 and reached the top of group A and last Tuesday, in their debut in the Copa Sudamericana , beat Nacional of Paraguay 3 to 2 in Asunción. They won’t have an easy time against Vélez, who is also fighting for qualification but lost ground by losing 1-0 to Talleres in Córdoba. Like River, Liniers’ team also has 21 points. But their worst goal difference (13 to 0) for now is moving them away from fourth place.
Carlos Tevez knows that if he does not manage to reach the quarterfinals, it will be very difficult for him to continue supporting himself as coach of Independiente. He was left out in last year’s League Cup and it seems that the demanding “red” fans will not support new frustration. Even though hierarchy is not abundant on campus. Banfield had a discreet campaign, never fighting for qualification, but it will still be a difficult opponent under the direction of Julio Falcioni, a coach linked to the recent past of the two clubs.
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