Not much time is left, less than ever. This Thursday Boca Juniors will seek a valuable result as it faces Cúcuta Deportivo in Colombia for the first time ever in the first leg of one of the semifinals within the Libertadores de América Cup.
The surprising team from the country famous for its coffee is playing for the first time in the tournament which features the continent’s most prestigious clubs.
The game will start at 9.15 pm ( Argentine time ) on Cúcuta Deportivo’s field. It will be refereed by Paraguayan umpire Carlos Amarilla and will be televised by Channel 13 for the Greater Buenos Aires area (including the country’s capital city) and by Fox Sports for the rest of the country.
Our team has reached this stage of the competition after overcoming a tough test in the quarterfinals against Paraguay’s Libertad, with which it tied 1-1 in the Bombonera and beat by 2-0 in the return game played in Asunción.
Coach Miguel Angel Russo has not announced the team’s line-up for this match. The only uncertainty concerns the midfield: Banega or Battaglia. The rest of the team will be the same as the one that stepped onto the field in Paraguay.
The local team features in its ranks Colombian goalkeeper Robinson Zapata, who has played for Avellaneda’s Independiente and Córdoba’s Belgrano, and former Vélez Sarsfield and Argentinos Juniors forward Juan Manuel Burrito Martínez.
The second leg of the bracket will be played in the Bombonera one week later. - |