Champions Trophy
This Wednesday, Martín Demichelis’s team will seek to get a ticket to a final against Boca that was not in anyone’s plans.
The Covid-19 pandemic generated several complications for the Argentine Football Association in terms of setting up the schedule of local tournaments and the dispute of different finals. There were championships canceled and others that ended much later than they should have, for this reason, since everything returned to normal, the AFA is trying to correct the gap that was generated in the pandemic and play the pending finals.
This Wednesday, River will step on the Kempes Stadium again but not to meet one more date of the Professional League, but to look for a ticket to the final against Boca. The party surprised locals and strangers since it was not on anyone’s agenda, that’s why in The Millionaire Page We explain to you what this tiebreaker against Banfield responds to.
mouth won the Superliga 2019/20that long tournament that was defined on the last date with River’s highly controversial draw against Atlético Tucumán on the Second Date, and won the right to dispute the Champions Trophy against the winner of the Super League Cup 2020. This last tournament was never played as a result of the arrival of the pandemic in March 2020 and was considered suspended.
When soccer returned, the creation of the Maradona Cup was arranged, which on paper did not grant a place in any final. This competition was also won by Boca, beating Banfield on penalties in the final. As the 2020 Champions Trophy had been vacated, the 2020 Super League Cup was replaced by the 2020 Maradona Cup.
“/>Since Boca was the team that won the two qualifying tournaments (this was defined on the fly, it was not stipulated from the beginning in the regulations, hence the anger of many protagonists) to the Champions Trophy, the AFA decided that the other finalist should come out of a playoff match between the 2019/20 Super League runner-up (River) and the 2020 Maradona Cup runner-up (Banfield). That is the game that will take place this Wednesday in Córdoba.