Independiente, undefeated leader with 14 points of the Professional Football League (LPF), will receive this Friday a Defense and Justice, in one of the four games that will open the seventh date.
The Red will look for his fifth triumph at the tournament to avoid in addition that Lanús and Colón de Santa Fe (13 units) and Students of La Plata (12) they can snatch the first place.
El Rojo will defend the leadership at home after the victory obtained last Saturday against Rosario Central (2-1) in Arroyito.
Despite the casualties and the short squad, DT Julio César Falcioni found regularity in a team that had been hit by eliminations in the Copa Sudamericana (round of 16 against Santos) and Copa Argentina (16th against Tigre).
Although there were new attempts in the last hours, the Avellaneda club is still unable to enable defender Joaquín Laso, the only reinforcement in the last break.
What’s more, the coaching staff will not be able to count on due to injury The front Jonathan Herrera and with the Lucas: Rodríguez, González and Romero.
For its part, Defense and Justice adds 7 units and comes from defeating Sarmiento (4-2) in Florencio Varela.
The team led by Sebastián Beccacece (who had a brief cycle as DT of Independiente of just 16 games) now will try to cut an extensive losing streak as a visitor at the local tournament that he has already been eleven games without winning, with eight defeats and three draws.
The match will be played from 21.15 (TV: Fox Sports Premium) at Stadium Liberators of America.
An illusioned Pincha
Banfield will receive this Friday to Students of La Plata, located in fourth place to two independent units and with the possibility of accessing the tip.
The Drill comes from two consecutive defeats (1-0 against Talleres and 2-0 against Argentinos Junios) and is ranked 19th with six units.
Coach Javier Sanguinetti will not be able to count on defender Alexis Sosa, expelled before the Bug of La Paternal, and his place will be covered by Leonardo Flores.
Students, toned after beating Boca Juniors 1-0 last date, will repeat the same eleven for the game to be played from 19 (Public TV) at the Florencio Sola stadium. In case the team led by Ricardo Zielinski gets a win as a visitor, it will remain temporarily as a pointer.
Champion on the prowl
The seventh date of the LPF will open from 4:45 p.m. (TV: TNT Sports) when Colón de Santa Fe, current Argentine soccer champion, visited Aldosivi in the José María Minella stadium in Mar del Plata.
El Sabalero arrives in La Feliz with three wins in a row (1-0 against Godoy Cruz, 1-0 against Vélez on the road and 1-0 with Gimnasia) who place him next to Lanús as escorts of the Independent leader, to only one point.
DT Eduardo Domínguez did not define the starting team, but could make at least one change with respect to the eleven that was imposed against the Wolf: instead of Nahuel Gallardo (son of River’s coach) Eric Meza could enter as the starter, who entered that game and scored the winning goal.
Meanwhile, after getting 7 of the last 9 points, the Shark will seek to return to victory after the tie on the time that Atlético Tucumán achieved on the last date, when it seemed that Fernando Gago’s team was rising with a away win on an always difficult field.
The Dean visits Junín
Sarmiento, last in the table of averages, will receive from 19 (TV: TNT Sports) to Atlético Tucumán on the Eva Perón stadium in the city of Junin.
The team that coaches Mario Sciacqua is located in the twentieth position with six units, as well as Banfield, Huracán and Unión, and in the last date they fell 4-2 to Defense and Justice on the road.
Atlético Tucumán, meanwhile, comes from equaling 2-2 against Aldosivi at home and it is positioned in 14th place with eight points, like Gimnasia La Plata and San Lorenzo.
In First Division, both teams they played only once and it was a victory for the team from Tucumán.
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