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River Plate will seek to establish itself on the 9th date as the sole leader of the Argentine Professional League when it hosts Unión de Santa Fe on Friday (20:30), while its archrival Boca lives a crisis and goes in search of a new DT.
River reached 18 points and left behind San Lorenzo (16), who lost to Newell’s last day.
The Millionaire Technician Martin Demichelis He looked for variants for a segment with several games in the coming weeks with the idea of not neglecting the League.
At the same time, he faces his participation in the Libertadores Cupin which the draw gave him a complex group against the Brazilian Fluminense, The Strongest from Bolivia and Sporting Cristal from Peru.
Like River, San Lorenzo will also come out of international cups in the coming weeks. Boedo’s team will play the South American with a group in which they will have as their adversaries Palestino from Chile, Fortaleza from Brazil and Estudiantes de Mérida from Venezuela.
Xeneizes in crisis: does the ‘Tata’ arrive?
Another center of attraction will be the visit of Boca Juniors to central barracksa comparison that comes in the middle of the xeneize crisis that already cost the coach his job Hugo Ibarrafired on Tuesday night.
The Boca leadership must find a driver shortly, with the urgency of having the Copa Libertadores just around the corner. The name that sounds strong is from Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martinowho would have already received a formal job proposal from the blue and gold institution.
After eight games, Boca is in the middle of the table with 11 points, 7 behind River, but their performance has gone downhill, with one draw and two losses in their last three games, including low individual performances from their figures.
Date 9 of the Professional League will begin on Thursday night with the Defensa y Justicia-Vélez Sarsfield and Argentinos Juniors-Godoy Cruz matches, and will continue on Friday with Rosario Central-Gimnasia y Esgrima, Estudiantes-Newell’s and River-Unión.
On Saturday they will face Barracas Central-Boca, San Lorenzo-Independiente, Tigre-Lanús and Racing-Huracán, while on Sunday it will be the turn of Instituto-Talleres in the Cordovan classic, followed by Colón-Atlético Tucumán, and Banfield-Platense.
On Monday night the day will be completed with Belgrano-Sarmiento and Central Córdoba-Arsenal.
