Racing Club will visit Unión de Santa Fe this Friday with the aim of achieving a victory that leaves him at least momentarily two points behind the leader San Lorenzo, in a match that will start the eighth date of the Professional League.
The Academy is located in the seventh position with 11 units and in the last presentation he narrowly beat Sarmiento de Junín, in Avellaneda.
A victory against Tatengue will temporarily leave Avellaneda’s team with 14 points, as well as Defensa y Justicia -which will visit Platense on Saturday- and two from Ciclón, which will clash against Newell’s Old Boys in Rosario on Monday
The coach Fernando Gago will not be able to count on an important player within the structure of the team in the defensive zone, since Gonzalo Piovi suffers from a muscular injury in the rectus femoris of the left leg.
Emiliano Insúa will replace Piovijust as he did at the beginning of the second stage against Verde de Junín last Sunday at the Cilindro.
This way, the albiceleste team will return to the line of four defendersso the youthful Tomás Avilés will leave the team, while in attack Maximiliano Moralez will join.
On the right side of the defense, the coach will have to decide if he will keep the Chilean Oscar Opazo or if he will once again give him the title of Facundo Mura.
gago36 years old You can also count on the Colombian striker Johan Carbonerowho during the day trained alongside the rest of his teammates after having done so differently due to discomfort in the pubic and groin area.
Unión, for its part, ranks 21st with seven pointsthree behind the last, Colón de Santa Fe, and on the last day they drew against Central, in Rosario.
The Uruguayan coach Gustavo Munúa has not defined the formationsince he is waiting for the recoveries of Federico Vera and Franco Calderón to define the starting eleven.
Vera has a trauma and if he is unable to play, he will be replaced by Francisco Gerometta, while Calderón was not in Rosario due to pain in his left knee, and if he does not recover, Oscar Piris will continue to play.
The match will be played from 9:10 p.m. (TV: TNT Sports) at the 15 de Abril stadium, located in the capital of Santa Fe.