Boca Juniors will host Talleres de Córdoba at La Bombonera this Saturday with the urgency of a pacifying victory for the crisis of internal coexistence that was unleashed with the elimination in the Copa Libertadores and worsened after falling in the classic against San Lorenzo (1-2 ) the last weekend.
The match will be played for the eighth date of the Professional Football League (LPF) from 8:30 p.m. with arbitration by Pablo Dóvalo and broadcast by ESPN Premium.
It will be the reunion of the “xeneize” public with the team after the fateful Cup night against Corinthians from Brazil, which led to the dismissal of DT Sebastián Battaglia and uncovered a conflict between the professional squad and the Football Council led by Juan Román Riquelme .
The effects of the elimination not only reached coach Battaglia but captain Carlos Izquierdoz, who was moved to the bench by Hugo Ibarra, who initially appeared as interim and was later ratified in the position.
The controversy increased in the match against San Lorenzo when Marcos Rojo, after scoring the partial 1-0, took off the captain’s tape and went to the bench to hug “Cali” Izquierdoz, in what was interpreted as a defiant message to the decision to remove him from the team.
Ibarra will ratify the confidence of the eleven that offered a blurred version in the New Gasometer, with the Peruvian Carlos Zambrano as the first central marker, despite having been in doubt due to muscle discomfort.
The “Xeneize”, current Argentine soccer champion, has three consecutive losses in the LPF (1-2 vs. Unión de Santa Fe, 0-3 vs. Banfield and 1-2 vs. San Lorenzo) and is ranked 15th. in the standings with 9 points, 7 away from the leader Atlético Tucumán.
Talleres occupies the penultimate step with 5 units, the product of one win, two draws and four losses. The team of the Portuguese Pedro Caixinha is going through a poor present in local football, which contrasts with its historic classification for the quarterfinals of the Libertadores.
In that instance, the Cordoba team will be the rival of Vélez Sarsfield, on Wednesday, August 3 in Liniers and a week later at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium in their province.
probable formations
Boca Juniors: Agustin Rossi; Luis Advíncula, Carlos Zambrano, Marcos Rojo and Frank Fabra; Guillermo “Pol” Fernández, Alan Varela and Juan Ramírez; Oscar Romero; Sebastian Villa and Dario Benedetto. DT: Hugo Ibarra.
workshops (Cordoba): Guido Herrera; Gastón Benavídez, Matías Catalán, Rafael Pérez and Enzo Díaz; Rodrigo Villagra and Christian Oliva or Ulises Ortegoza; Alan Franco, Matías Esquivel and Matías Godoy or Francisco Pizzini; Federico Girotti. DT: Pedro Caixinha.
Referee: Pablo Dovalo.
Stadium: La Bombonera.
Start time: 8:30 p.m.
TV: ESPN Premium.
