A busy day for Atlético Nacional ahead of their duel for the Copa Libertadores. News came from Paraguayan territory regarding the payroll that will seek to maintain the advantage gained in Defensores del Chaco.
Olimpia arrived in Medellín on Tuesday to face the purslane team in the second leg of Phase 2 without their goalkeeper, Alfredo Aguilar, who is expected to be replaced by the Uruguayan Gastón Olveira.
The Asunción club won 3-1 last Thursday at their hometown, which featured 21-year-old midfielder Fernando Cardozo.
Aguilar will be discharged on Thursday, as he suffers from an abscess on the buttock with perilesional cellulitis, reported the Dean’s medical staff: “The drainage was carried out under local anesthesia and covered with broad-spectrum antibiotics, in an evolutionary control plan,” the doctors pointed out, who recommended rest for the goalkeeper.
The “travellers”, as reported by Olimpia on their social networks, are Gastón Olveira, Marino Arzamendia, Pedro González, Sergio Otálvaro (former Santa Fe), Víctor Salazar, Iván Torres, Mateo Gamarra, Saúl Salcedo, Antolín Alcaraz, Luis Zárate, Hugo Quintana and Richard Ortiz.
In addition, Marcos Gómez, Alex Franco, Fernando Cardozo, Feliciano Brizuela, Alejandro Silva, Néstor Camacho, Santiago Vera, Derlis González, Jorge Recalde, Walter González and Gullermo Paiva are part of the squad called up by coach Julio César Cáceres.
The second leg will be played this Thursday at the Atanasio Girardot stadium in Medellín.
