05/18/2021 10:35 AM
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Updated 05/18/2021 10:35 AM
River is going
through one of the most difficult moments of the Gallardo cycle and day by day, the news is not encouraging at all.
The most important thing, it is clear, is that their players go through the coronavirus without major inconveniences,
but at the same time it is really difficult to put together the team that will play on Wednesday for the Copa Libertadores.
And now the possibility of recovering Enzo Pérez was also ruled out.
The heart of River's midfield came out at halftime with Boca and on Monday he had trained differently.
He had flown over the possibility that he could recover, at least to occupy the goalkeeper position - taking into account that the movement is much less -
but in the early hours of Tuesday he was completely ruled out even to put on the gloves due to his muscle injury in the right hamstring.
Furthermore, Enzo is also a doubt for next week's match against Junior.
Thus, while waiting for Conmebol to place
its request to replace two goalkeepers due to injury (in this case related to the virus) in the list
, River does not have 11 players available for Wednesday's game at the Monumental.
The 10 remaining at Gallardo's disposal are
Jonatan Maidana, Héctor Martínez, Fabrizio Angileri, Milton Casco, Jorge Carrascal, Agustín Fontana, José Paradela, Julián Alvarez and the youth Tomás Lecanda and Felipe Peña Biafore
(they did not debut in First Division).
It is worth mentioning that River has a more qualified player to play: Javier Pinola.
The defender goes through the last days of recovering from his fracture in his right forearm and could
carry out the studies he had planned for the end of the week, with the hope of being able to add it.
Either way, if the bone did not finish welding, beyond the desire of Pinola, who is dying to be there, Gallardo has decided not to risk it
.
And as he postulated in his statement, he will show up to play with the men he has available, even if there is no green light for the archers.
Look also
River statement: play with what you have and ask for two archers
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