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La Dimayor made official this Monday the dates on which the 2020 Superliga matches between Junior and América de Cali, champions of last season in Colombia, will be played.
On Tuesday, September 8 (7:00 pm) the venue will be the ‘shark’ box at Romelio Martínez, while the ‘devils’ will finish off at Pascual Guerrero on Friday the 11th (7:30 pm).
América de Cali has suffered important losses compared to the team that obtained the 14th star. The pandemic caused the departure of the coaching staff headed by the Brazilian-Costa Rican coach Alexandre Guimaraes, but also important players such as the striker Michael Rangel and the Argentine Matías Pisano , in addition to the defenders Juan Pablo Zuluaga and Pedro Franco.
The new helmsman is the Argentine Juan Cruz Real, who comes from an irregular campaign at Jaguares de Córdoba, but has constantly indicated that he is coming to build his own history with a squad that already knows what it is to celebrate.
You need to hit the gas by the time the return date to group training is authorized. There is no doubt that those casualties can play against, in addition to the fact that the football part has not been able to work and there will be few days of collective work after the Government kept the teams on tenterhooks until the last day of August.
How the Scarlet Square will play is so far a mystery. As expressed by Cruz Real and some of the members of the squad, the best of what was done with Guimaraes will remain because there is a football memory and we must take advantage of the good in the absence of time.
First it will be the Barranquilleros in that double confrontation, and then the visit to Inter de Porto Alegre for the Copa Libertadores, on September 16, who will measure the current situation of the red team.
It is not surprising that he will continue to implement a defense with four in the background; the line of three flyers with Luis Paz, Carlos Sierra and Rafael Carrascal, with Duván Vergara and Juan David Pérez as wingers, while the great hope of goal, Adrián will have to make himself felt in attack. The hiring of a new striker, which is also a priority, still does not materialize in a range of six options.
Last Saturday, one of the probable starters, Yesus Cabrera, bent his ankle in training and although a delicate injury was ruled out through an X-ray image, the Medical Department will determine if he can play against Junior in the first leg.
If nothing to the contrary happens, it is probable that America will have the following formation in the first meeting: Éder Chaux; Cristian Arrieta, Marlon Torres, Juan Pablo Segovia, Edwin Velasco; Rafael Carrascal, Luis Alejandro Paz, Carlos José Sierra, Juan David Pérez, Duván Vergara; and Adrián Ramos.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces
