04/07/2021 15:05
Clarín.com
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Updated 04/07/2021 15:05
This Wednesday 7,
Nicolás Capaldo
and
Agustín Obando
tested positive after feeling symptoms compatible with the coronavirus and are already isolated, said today close to the
Boca Juniors
coaching staff
.
The footballers will undergo new tests, although both had muscle pain in the last hours, which would confirm their diagnosis.
It is believed that both Capaldo and Obando will miss at least next Sunday's match against Unión in Santa Fe, for the Professional League Cup.
Obando had been isolated for two days for accusing close contact with a person infected with Covid-19, but since the test had given him negative, his reincorporation into the group was expected.
Unfortunately, when he felt new symptoms, he was tested again and this time he tested positive.
As for the team to face the "tatengue", the doubt that DT Miguel Ángel Russo has is whether Edwin Cardona, already recovered from his muscle injury, will play from the start or will go to the substitutes' bench, and Mauro Zárate would play for the youth Exequiel Zeballos, who did it against Defense and Justice in the 2-1 victory last Saturday.
As for the two central midfielders, the unknown remains to see if the coach will introduce variants in that sector of the court: if he maintains the tandem of Jorman Campuzano with Cristian Medina, or uses Alan Varela or Agustín Almendra as possible replacements.
The Boquense campus will go back to work tomorrow, Thursday from 9 o'clock at the Ezeiza campus and on Friday it will do so in the same place.
On Saturday, after practice, you will travel by charter flight to Santa Fe.
Boca will visit Unión de Santa Fe next Sunday from 6.30 pm for the ninth date of Zone B of the Professional League Cup, with the arbitration of
Fernando Espinoza
.
Agustín Obando in action.
Photo: Marcelo Endelli / POOL / AFP.
Meanwhile, Marcos Rojo said today that the club's football council "is there to support the squad and then the technical part is up to the coach, he is the one who decides. I feel good and luckily I am gradually catching the rhythm" .
"It cost me but I think I'm getting better every time. Since I've been here, both Roman and the council see them little, I know they're here and perhaps because of the protocols we don't see it as much. But when they pass they always ask me how I'm doing, yes. we need something, as is my family, "Rojo said in statements to ESPN.
Regarding the line of three defenders that coach Miguel Russo had in the last games, the former marker of Estudiantes de La Plata considered that "I almost always played with a line of three, sometimes I did it with a line of three. We have great defenders like (Carlos) Zambrano, (Carlos) Izquierdoz, (Lisandro) López, and I think we all feel comfortable anyway. "
Rojo also pointed out that Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani, his former teammate at Manchester United, "really likes the idea of coming to play at Boca."
"I have a very good relationship with Edinson (Cavani). He told me that he really likes the option of coming to Boca. I promised him that I will take him fishing if he comes, because I know he likes it a lot. We were together for five months and we talked a lot "Red closed.
Source: Télam
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