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After the Copa América fever, Argentine teams define their fate in the Libertadores and the Sudamericana

2021-07-13T09:47:07.096Z


Nine teams represent our country in the two most important tournaments on the continent. Boca goes with Mineiro and River with Argentinos Juniors. How the rest arrives.


Daniel Avellaneda

07/13/2021 6:01 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • sports

Updated 07/13/2021 6:01 AM

The images of the Maracanazo will be burned, especially in a generation that until Sunday had not seen the National Team champion. However, the euphoria for the Copa América is beginning to be left behind. It happens in these times of immediacy, of course. There are not enough days to enjoy the fact that the ball will continue to roam on a continental level. The activity of the Libertadores and the Sudamericana is resumed and Lionel Messi,

Draw

Martínez and company

no longer matter

. The last 16 of both tournaments are played and

the glory - and the dollars that are so much needed in the country of the stocks - is tempting.

Boca, River, Racing, Argentinos Juniors, Vélez and Defensa y Justicia, the teams that qualified for the group stage, are still in the race in the highest competition in South America.

Independiente, Rosario Central and Arsenal entered the next stage of the second continent competition.

San Lorenzo, Talleres, Lanús, and Newell's fell by the wayside.

There are 9 teams, then, those that will represent Argentina in this second semester.

Boca, Racing and Defensa y Justicia will have Brazilian rivals in the Libertadores: Atlético Mineiro, San Pablo and Flamengo, three strong teams with history.

Nothing is impossible, of course.

And perhaps the victory of the National Team at the Maracana is a plus of confidence.

Of course, they have an advantage:

the local competition did not stop during the Copa América and they have already played eleven dates.

As happened in the group stage, Racing meets San Pablo again.Photo: REUTERS / Marcelo Endelli

Vélez, meanwhile, will play against Barcelona from Ecuador (this Wednesday at 7.15pm at Liniers) and there will be a national match:

River will face the surprising Argentinos

(this Wednesday at 9.30pm at Núñez).

Independiente will also have before his illusions an opponent from Brazil, Santos, whom he knew how to face in his glory days (on Thursday at 7.15pm in Avellaneda).

The Rosario will play with Deportivo Táchira from Venezuela (Thursday at 9:30 p.m. in Arroyito) and Arsenal with Sporting Cristal from Peru, which arrives from Libertadores (this Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. in Sarandí).

River will play with Argentinos Juniors who beat him in the last game thanks to a goal from Florentín.

In lean times, there were lots of casualties and few passes.

Much less, millionaires.

Boca is a clear example of the crisis that Argentine soccer is going through

, a consequence of the economic debacle that the country is going through.

He got rid of 8 players,

among them his last idol, Carlos Tevez

, and only incorporated half: Marcelo Weigandt (returned from his loan in Gymnastics), Nicolás Orsini (Lanús), Norberto Briasco and Esteban Rolón (both from Huracán).

Boca lost his figure, Carlitos Tevez.Photo: AFP

Until now, little has been seen of the team.

A 4-3-3 with greater imbalance appears, especially on the sides, but a midfield with less dynamics in which only Cristian Medina can break.

In principle, it

seems insufficient to aspire to the seventh,

that obsession they have pursued 14 years ago, when Miguel Angel Russo, the current coach, was champion of the Libertadores.

Atlético Mineiro, the best team in the group area, has Matías Zaracho and Nacho Fernández, neither more nor less.

River made the preseason in Orlando and a few days before returning to the country he signed one of the most prominent forwards in the local environment: Braian Romero.

Champion with Defense and Justice in the South American and in the Recopa comes with the antecedent of

18 goals in 18 international matches.

He will be the replacement for Santos Borré, who was released and agreed to join Eintracht Frankfurt.

Brian Romero, will have his revenge in a big one.Photo: TPX

Will the scheme change in this period?

In the United States he tried José Paradela as a hitch.

Whether with a 4-3-1-2 or a 4-3-3, the style that Marcelo Gallardo gave to River is marked by intensity.

Argentinos had a great group stage in which they eliminated Atlético Nacional, Nacional de Montevideo and Universidad Católica, big rivals.

He is not afraid of River.

He kept the base and his incorporations are due to a change (Nicolás Reniero, Luciano Gómez and Enzo Kalinski).

Juan Antonio Pizzi survived the turbulence and Racing finished leader in its group and finalist in the Professional League Cup. How far will he go in the Cup that he only won in 1967?

Lisandro López

, who returned to the club after his father's death, was honestly brutal.

"

We are not candidates," he

said. Only Javier Correa, a forward from Santos Laguna in Mexico, arrived. 7 players left, most of them youth and substitutes.

Vélez chose one of the best goalkeepers in the Copa América, Bolivian Luis Lampe

.

He kept all his holders for the duel with the Ecuadorians.

In Defense and Justice there were many movements.

He renewed the squad with 7 footballers.

10 left, yes, with Braian Romero as the main casualty.

Sebastián Beccacece must be creative.

Lampe, with a good Copa América, joins the Fortín.Photo: AFP.

Independiente obtained victories in the friendlies and although Julio César Falcioni prefers the line of five in the background, this time he would bet on four behind.

At least to boot.

He joined Joaquín Laso, free from Central.

And if it is about the people of Rosario, he didn't make a big investment either.

He only repatriated Milton Caraglio, who arrives with the pass in his possession from Atlas.

Arsenal made a change of figures.

The departure of Jhonatan Candia to Huracán can be sensitive.

Sergio Rondina brought five players.

There is a sports seasoning; also, another economic one: for accessing the quarterfinals, each team will pocket

$ 1,500,000

.

Nothing despicable.

Ultimately, the best business is winning.

Source: clarin

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