In the Defensores del Chaco, Resistencia (4th) will officiate at home to face Olimpia (3rd) today from 8:15 p.m. on date 8 of the Apertura. The cast of Chacarita gave up their unbeaten record the previous day, although they remain in the upper half of the table, while the Dean wants to continue marking his presence in the fight for the top.
Those led by Roberto ‘Tiburón’ Torres aim to reunite with the victory in the championship, where they accumulate 12 points. After a great start with a harvest of 9 points out of 9 possible, then came three consecutive draws and the fall against Cerro on the seventh date.
Olimpia, for its part, has just caught up at the local level with a victory in Ciudad del Este over Sol de América, which allowed it to rank third with 14 points, 5 units behind the leader Libertad.
Julio César Cáceres would be lining up a mostly alternative formation for tonight’s commitment attending the Libertadores superclassic next Tuesday at the start of the Cup group stage.
PROBABLE LINEUPS
Resistance: Ruhan Dos Santos; Iván Paniagua, Óscar Brizuela, Juan Recalde, Wildo Alonso; Ronaldo Martínez, Fernando Martínez, Matías Duffard, Jesús Araújo; Pablo Palacios, Diego Martinez. DT: Roberto Torres.
Olympia: Alfredo Aguilar; Sergio Otálvaro, Luis Zárate, Tobías Castellano, Iván Torres; Feliciano Brizuela, Edgardo Orzusa, Marcos Gómez, Teodoro Arce; Nestor Camacho, Guillermo Paiva. DT: Julio Cesar Caceres.
DESIGNATIONS
Referee: Eber Aquino
Assistants: Julio Aranda and Christian Sosa
Fourth referee: Juan López
VAR: Mario Diaz de Vivar
AVAR: Eduardo Cardozo
Support Referee: Rodney Aquino
