Huracán will receive Emelec from Ecuador this Thursday with the sole objective of winning and positioning itself as the leader of Group B of the Copa Sudamericana in which the four teams add four points in three games played. The match will be played from 9:00 p.m. at the Tomás Adolfo Ducó stadium, with Colombian Andrés Rojas Noguera refereeing and ESPN television.
Coach Sebastián Battaglia analyzes some variants regarding the team that drew 0-0 against Sarmiento de Junín on the last date of the Professional League. In this sense, the Uruguayan Matías Cóccaro will be in the lead (Matías Gómez will leave), Valentín Burgoa could enter for Walter Mazzanti and Fernando Torrent for Guillermo Soto. In their last match in the Cup, the Globe tied with Danubio from Uruguay 1-1.
Emelec from Ecuador, for its part, arrives after drawing 1-1 with Guaraní from Paraguay on the third day of the South American Cup and has several Argentines in its ranks such as Caín Fara, Leandro Vega, Carlos Villalba and Aníbal Leguizamón, in addition to the coach, Miguel Rondelli.
Huracán and Emelec met for the last time on April 20 and the Ecuadorians won 1-0.
Pincha plays in Paraguay
Estudiantes de La Plata will seek this Thursday against Tacuary in Asunción del Paraguay to add a victory and ensure their qualification to the next phase of the Copa Sudamericana, in a match valid for the fourth date of Group C of the tournament. The match will be played from 7:00 p.m. at the Defensores del Chaco stadium, in Asunción, Paraguay. It will be refereed by the Colombian José Argote Vega and televised by the ESPN signal.
The Paraguayan team comes from winning 3-1 against Oriente Petrolero on the last date of the South American Cup, although in the league of their country they are last in the Apertura tournament, in which they lost 3-1 against Guaraní at home in their last presentation.
Estudiantes de La Plata, meanwhile, drew 0-0 with Bragantino from Brazil and is the leader of the group together with the Brazilian team with 7 points and a victory in Paraguay will qualify them to the next phase of the continental cup.
