River Plate coach Marcelo Gallardo did not recover the injured Juan Fernando Quintero, Matías Suárez and Milton Casco to play Defense and Justice this Sunday at the start of the Professional League.
In this way, the Doll will have fewer alternatives to assemble the team that will also not be able to count on the players summoned to the double FIFA date, Franco Armani, Paulo Díaz, David Martínez, Nicolás de la Cruz and Julián Álvarez.
Although Juanfer and Suárez worked with the ball this Wednesday morning at the Ezeiza property, they did not participate in the intense technical-tactical exercises of the rest of the squad and they will not be discharged this week.
The Colombian striker suffered two left hamstring tears in mid-April and in May and the Cordovan striker had a right soleus strain before traveling to Fortaleza in the first week of May.
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As for Casco, the winger did gym work since he came from a muscle injury in his right calf caused by a blow in the match against Alianza Lima, where he had to leave after a quarter of an hour of play.
Thus, Gallardo will have to make half a dozen changes to play in Varela against “Halcón” on Sunday night in relation to the team that closed the group stage against the Peruvians last week.
The eleven would be: Ezequiel Centurión, Emanuel Mammana, Leandro González Pírez, Javier Pinola or Jonatan Maidana and Elías Gómez; Enzo Fernández, Enzo Pérez and Agustín Palavecino or Tomás Pochettino; Santiago Simón, Braian Romero and Esequiel Barco.
For the second date against Atlético Tucumán at the Monumental, on June 12, River will also not be able to count on the central defenders Martínez and Díaz since they play with their national teams a few days before in Japan and South Korea.
With this scenario, the team trained this morning at the River Camp in Ezeiza, where it will continue to work until Friday to concentrate again on Saturday at the Monumental for the start of the tournament.
Finally, the return of Lucas Beltrán de Colón remains unsolved as there is no agreement between the leadership to advance the use of the loan termination clause before June 30.
Gallardo intends to score Beltrán as a reinforcement for the second round of the Copa Libertadores but Julio Cesar Falcioni -DT of Colón- wants to use him in the first game against Talleres, which disables River from counting on him in the final phases.
