2023-04-18 00:23:55
For the second date of Group H of the Copa Libertadores de América, the Board of Paraná visits Olimpia of Paraguay this Tuesday from 21.
The match will be played at the Defensores del Chaco stadium, in Asunción, will be televised by Fox Sports 2 and Star+and the referee will be the Brazilian Raphael Claus.
Olimpia will thus face its eighteenth Argentinian rival and Patronato once morest its first Paraguayan opponent, so it is the first time that it has faced off at an official and friendly level.
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— Club A. Patronato ⭐ (@ClubPatronatoOf) April 17, 2023
The “Patron” returned home last weekend (he had not played there since last October 23 in the agonizing 3-2 victory once morest Huracán) following 173 days, but he barely drew 1-1 with Estudiantes de Río Cuarto for the 12th date of the First National, the second Argentine category, where it is located third from last with 11 units.
The leadership of the Entre Ríos club considers that tomorrow will be a key day, not only because it will be their second appearance in international tournaments, but also because a group of agronomists from Conmebol will evaluate the state of the playing field of the “rojinegro” field.
If the technicians approve the leveling work and conditions of the playing field, the Board will receive Melgar from Peru on May 4, and Olimpia on May 24 at their stadium.
As for the “Dean” of Paraguayan soccer, he is 10 points behind the leader Libertad and with one more game, nine dates from the end of the Paraguayan Opening.
Over the weekend they lost at home to Nacional (1-0), it was their second consecutive defeat and the “fringed” bully took the alternative courts, removed the security fences and began insulting the entire squad.
According to some Asunción media outlets, defender Luis Zárate even suffered a cut on the head from a stone, and his teammates Hugo Fernández and Fernando Cardozo also suffered minor injuries.
In a statement, the Olimpia players repudiated “all kinds of violence on and off the pitch” and expressed their “great concern over the lack of guarantees provided by those responsible for the show” since the squad was left “in a total vulnerability”.
Coach Diego Aguirre said that “these are situations involving big teams and you have to live with that.” At a press conference, he thought that “it is very difficult” for the club to win the local Apertura, while he assured that his leaders will “focus on going through the Libertadores and think regarding winning the next goal, winning the Clausura” of Guarani football .
Possible formations of Board of Trustees and Olimpia
Patronage: Matthias Budino; Christian Gonzalez, Joel Ghirardello, Facundo Cobos; Matthias Ruiz Diaz, Fabio Vazquez, Nicholas Domingo, Juan Cruz Esquivel and Sergio Ojeda; Ignatius Russo and Matthew Levato. DT: Walter Otta.
Olympia (Paraguay): Gaston Oliver; Victor Salazar, Luis Zarate, Matthew Gamarra and Ivan Torres or Facundo Zabala; Richard Ortiz and Marcos Gomez; Fernando Cardozo, Alejandro Silva or Victor Quintana and Hugo Fernandez; Facundo Bruera. DT: Diego Aguirre.
- Referee: Raphael Claus (Brasil).
- Estadio: Defenders of the Chaco (Asuncion, Paraguay).
- Hour: 21.
- Television: Fox Sports 2 y Star+.
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