In what promises to be the great match of the first round, the undefeated leader Libertad defends his position as a leader in a visit to the Nueva Olla de Cerro Porteño, which aims to reach Gumarelo at the top of the Apertura Tournament. The appointment, at 6:00 p.m. on date 10 of the Opening Tournament.
On the local side, Cerro (22 points) arrives at today’s appointment after stopping against General Caballero with a 0-0 in his visit to the renovated Ka’arendy stadium of Juan León Mallorquín for date 9.
Libertad, meanwhile, beat Sol de América (3-1) the previous day and took advantage of the aforementioned Barça equality to, with 25 points, take an advantage of 3 points over their rival today.
Regarding their most recent commitments, both those of Garnero and those of Chiqui Arce come from conquering their first victories in the Libertadores 2022: Libertad beat Caracas 2-1 and Cerro beat Colón de Santa Fe 3-1.
PROBABLE LINEUPS
Cerro Porteno: Jean-Fernandes; Alberto Espínola, Juan Patiño, Alexis Duarte, Alan Rodríguez; Alan Benitez, Angel Cardozo Lucena, Rafael Carrascal, Claudio Aquino; Sergio Diaz, Fernando Romero. DT: Francisco Arce.
Freedom: Martin Silva; Iván Piris, Gilberto Flores, Daniel Bocanegra, Camilo Mayada; Héctor Villalba, Hernesto Caballero, Cristian Riveros, Lorenzo Melgarejo; Julio Enciso, Roque Santa Cruz. DT: Daniel Garnero.
DESIGNATIONS
Referee: Jose Mendez
Assistants: Eduardo Cardozo and Eduardo Britos
Fourth referee: Derlis Benítez
VAR: Eber Aquino
AVAR: Rodney Aquino
Support referee: Juan López