River Plate
visits
Lanús
, one of the four leaders, with the mission of returning to victory and recovering its best football version, after the painful defeat against Arsenal at the Monumental, in one of the five games that will give continuity to the sixth date of the
Professional Soccer League
.
The match will be played at the Ciudad de Lanús-Néstor Díaz Pérez stadium, starting at 7:15 p.m., will be refereed by Darío Ceballos and televised by ESPN Premium.
River has 9 points in five games, with two defeats, the last one at their stadium against Arsenal (2-1) that left DT Martín Demichelis worried.
His rival, Lanús, has 12 points after winning the first four games and then falling in the last one in Avellaneda against Racing Club (2-1).
Lanús and River played 136 games in history.
The southern team won 27 times, while the "Millionaire" had 78 victories and also tied 31 times.
"Garnet" accumulates two straight losses against River at home: 0-3 in the 2021 Professional Soccer League and 1-5 in the 2018/2019 Super League.
In addition, Núñez's club won the last four times they met.
Probable formations
Lanus
: Lucas Acosta;
Brian Aguirre, Cristian Lema, José Canale and Julián Aude;
Raúl Loaiza, Tomás Belmonte, Matías Esquivel or Luciano Boggio and Lautaro Acosta or Luciano Boggio;
Pedro De La Vega;
and Leandro Diaz.
DT: Frank Darío Kudelka.
River Plate:
Franco Armani;
Robert Rojas, Paulo Diaz, Enzo Diaz and Milton Casco;
Enzo Perez;
Agustín Palavecino, Ignacio "Nacho" Fernández and José Paradela or Nicolás De La Cruz;
Franco Alfonso and Miguel Angel Borja.
DT: Martin Demichelis.
Referee: Dario Ceballos.
Stadium: City of Lanús-Néstor Díaz Pérez.
Start time: 19.15.
TV: ESPN Premium.