After the strongest part of the preseason in San Martín de Los Andes, River begins to have contact with the ball, slowly preparing for what will be its debut against Unión in the Professional League Cup in February. In this framework, the Millionaire played this morning his first warm-up friendly so far this summer. The rival was Independiente at the River Camp, behind closed doors for the public and the press.
With Pochettino, Mammana and González Pirez training and Juanfer about to join, Marcelo Gallardo will begin to try variants and shape his ideal eleven. For its part, the Red comes with more soccer rhythm: it fell 1-0 against San Lorenzo and He comes from beating Talleres 3-1 a few days ago in one of the summer triangles that he disputes with those two teams.
For now this is the only friendly agreed for the Greatest. On the agenda appeared two commitments to be disputed in Uruguay, before Barracas Central and Estudiantes de La Plata, but due to the health risk involved in moving the squad to another country, it was decided to cancel the meetings and wait to agree on new games in Buenos Aires.
From 9:30 a.m. the preparation meeting began in Ezeiza. Two 45-minute halves were played.
River’s formation
Ezequiel Centurion, Alex Vigo, Jonatan Maidana, Emanuel Mammana, Javier Pinola; Bruno Zuculini, Tomás Pochettino, Nicolás De la Cruz, Jorge Carrascal, Federico Girotti and Braian Romero.
The formation of Independent
Sebastian Sosa; Gonzalo Asis, Joaquín Laso, Juan Manuel Insaurralde, Thomas Ortega; Lucas Gonzalez, Lucas Romero, Joel Sonora; Alan Velasco, Andrés Roa and Gastón Togni.
River 1 Independent 2
PT
Independent goal at the start:
Great pass from Roa, perfect cross from Velasco and definition from Togni.
Second goal of Independent:
Assistance from Roa and fair definition of Soñora.
River formation for the second half:
Franco Armani, Robert Rojas, Paulo Díaz, David Martínez, Milton Casco, Enzo Pérez, Enzo Fernández, Santiago Simón, Agustín Palavecino, José Paradela and Julián Álvarez.
ST
River’s goal:
River discounted thanks to a good shot by Simón, who entered in the second half.
