Beyond the main course for which we will have to wait until the end, when the leader and the escort meet at Mario Kempes, the date 17 of the Professional Football League tournament continues this Thursday with three other games: Argentinos-Colón, Newell’s-Aldosivi and Independiente-Sarmiento.
El Bicho will open the day at Diego Armando Maradona, when he receives the current champion with the absences of Miguel Torrén, Javier Cabrera and Jonathan Sandoval, from 14:30, in a game that will be televised by TNT Sports. The local needs to add three again after their defeat in the last game against Atlético Tucumán by 4-3, but coach Gabriel Milito will not be able to count on his three usual starters, suffering from different injuries. Colón, meanwhile, is coming off an important 1-0 win at home against Talleres.
Later, from 4:45 p.m. (Public TV broadcasts), Newell’s Old Boys will receive Aldosivi from Mar del Plata, in a match between two teams that add 16 points each and that fight to get out of the bottom of the table, with the aim of improving the average for the calculation of the decline, which will be activated again in 2022. Neither of them can lose sight of the average: the Rosario team – led temporarily by Adrián Taffarel, replacing Fernando Gamboa – has 1,226 and the Mar del Plata – with Martín Palermo as its brand new technical director – occupies the last place in that dreaded table, with 0.924.
In the previous of Talleres-River Independiente and Sarmiento will face each other in the Libertadores de América, from 19 (televises TNT Sports), with those led by Julio César Falcioni yearning for a victory to continue in the qualifying positions for the international cups next season.
The two arrive accumulating defeats: Red comes from losing 1-0 to Aldosivi and he would have a formation with modifications in his search to return to the triumph after five dates without winning (the last time was 1-0 to Huracán on the 12th date); Junín’s team lost 4-3 at home to Unión de Santa Fe on the last date and they will have to turn the statistics around, the one that says they never beat Independiente. In a history of only seven games between the two, with two wins for Avellaneda and five draws, the last match ended with a 6-0 win.
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