The unprecedented Boca team that Battaglia would put to visit Atlético Tucumán: ten changes and Cardona’s return

Yes OK Boca Juniors is ninth and eight points off the top of the table in the Professional League, His trainer, Sebastián Battaglia, I would not do my best to face Athletic Tucuman this Saturday (20.15) for the twelfth date of the tournament. Except for the goalkeeper, the DT would save the rest of the starting players for the match for the quarterfinals of the Argentine Cup against Patronato, next Wednesday.

Set xeneize He played on Tuesday against Defense and Justice, and due to the proximity of the date, he would have decided not to demand the players who faced the Hawk of Varela. With a view to the match before the Dean, Battaglia began to move the pieces and gave signals in the football practice this Thursday, where he put together an eleven where the only regular starter was Agustin Rossi. The rest was a mix of players who are not usually starters and some youth.

The test he carried out included several who have been adding minutes from time to time such as Frank Fabra (the studies showed that he is not injured and will travel to Tucumán), Esteban Rolón, Alan Varela and Cristian Pavon, and with many boys from the club, that the DT knows very well since before assuming the position in the First he directed the Reserve.

Cardona was added to that trial, who had already been included in the substitute team in formal football before being measured with Defense, where he was finally left out of the concentrates. This time, the fate of the 28-year-old Colombian would be different and would become the hitch in the 4-3-1-2 that the coach thinks.

It should be remembered that Cardona has not played in the blue and gold cast since last August 8 when he was key to the tie (1-1) against Argentinos in the Bombonera, although later he saw the red in a childish way (double yellow 14 minutes from the end ). Given the doubt of its continuity after December 31, when the loan will expire, the chance to play on Saturday would be important for the coffee midfielder if he intends to continue dressing the house of Boca Juniors.

Cardona was already led by Battaglia in one of the two games he played for the championship. Played 69 minutes in the 2-0 loss to San Lorenzo on July 28 by the third date when the Xeneize He had to play with youth players added to the -by then- Reserve coach after the professional team together with the coaching staff broke the health bubble in the second match against Atlético Mineiro for the Copa Libertadores, when he was eliminated in Brazil.

The team that Battaglia planted this Thursday was with: Agustín Rossi; Eros Mancuso, Lisandro López, Renzo Giampaoli (Carlos Zambrano would play with a mask due to his injury to his face), Frank Fabra; Rodrigo Montes (He played against San Lorenzo in a full youth team), Esteban Rolón, Alan Varela; Edwin Cardona; Cristian Pavón and Nicolás Orsini. Although the DT will wait for training this Friday to finish shaping the starting eleven.

It is worth remembering that Marcelo Weigandt (torn), Luis Advíncula (isolated for breaking the Conmebol bubble after returning from Peru) and Agustín Almendra (he is recovering from an injury) are the great absentees in the list of concentrates to visit Atlético Tucumán. However, the Peruvian would travel by charter flight between the early hours of Friday and the morning of Saturday, since he will comply with the isolation and would have a place among the alternates. While Almendra travels to accompany the team, but will not play.

The objective of saving the headlines for the Argentine Cup, a meeting that will be on Wednesday against the Board of Trustees, in the Mother of Cities Stadium Santiago del Estero (21.30), is that it is one of the two keys that Boca Juniors has left to qualify for the Copa Libertadores in 2022. To do so, they must win that tournament. The phase against the entrerrianos will be in the quarterfinals.

The other possibility is to be champion of the Professional League or finish third in the annual table, where today the team of The Ribera ninth gear with 37 units, on 5 River Plate, who today completes the partial podium to obtain that ticket to the Libertadores.

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