International football, that is, the Copa America, is already a thing of the past. Now it is time for the ball to roll once more in the domestic arena and for Estudiantes The return is for the Argentine Cupa competition where, as we know, the trophy won in December of the previous year is at stake. And the return to activity indicates that Eduardo Domínguez’s team has indicated that this Wednesday it must play with Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero in the province of Córdoba, but more precisely in the Belgrano stadium. The match is scheduled for 18:00.
The match, which will take place in a province that has been very popular with Pincha lately, due to what happened in the Copa Argentina last year, as well as in the semi-finals of the Copa de la Liga (a competition won by the Albirrojo team), corresponds to the round of 16 of the 12th edition of the most federal championship in Argentine football.
Estudiantes already suffered once morest Central Córdoba in this competition. Back in 2019, the team from Santiago left Pincha behind by defeating them 1-0 and not only that, but they reached the grand final where they faced River.
Today the present is very different. Estudiantes beyond the losses in its squad, due to the sales of Zaid Romero, Javier Correa, Fernando Zuqui and for the injuries of Enzo Perez, Mauro Mendez and Eric Meza; maintains the base of what was the first half of the year, although knowing that in the attack today Eduardo Domínguez only has Guido Carrillo as a natural nine, plus everything that the Colombian brings to the game playing on the wings Edwuin Cetre; while Central Córdoba has a renewed squad, with several new faces and where its objective is not this Copa Argentina but to get out of the bottom of the average table and therefore avoid relegation to the B Nacional.
Estudiantes knows that it has a lot at stake, mainly its prestige, and in each match it will be “analyzed and observed” in a different way for being the current champion of this tournament. So, based on everything that the team achieved, on the demanding preseason that began on July 1, Domínguez’s pupils must make it clear from the moment the ball starts rolling that they are a team with ambitions and hunger to continue reaping success.
He will be in charge of the team’s ability to resolve whatever Central Córdoba proposes, in a stadium smaller than the Mario Kempes World Cup stadium, and in being aggressive defensively and offensively to avoid any kind of surprise.