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The Uruguayan coach Julio Comesaña and his team, Junior from Barranquilla, will host a renewed América de Cali on Tuesday in the first leg of the Colombian Super League, which represents the return of football to the country after almost six months of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read also here: This is how América de Cali would form in the first leg against Junior in the Águila Super League
The stage will be the Romelio Martínez stadium, in Barranquilla, at that the access of fans will not be allowed and where the ‘Shark’ will play its games as a local for much of this month while the Mayor’s Office finishes adapting the Metropolitan ahead of the Copa Libertadores and the start of the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers.
The atypical final, which is usually disputed in the first weeks of the year, it will be played just a few days after the clubs received the endorsement for team training, because in the last weeks only individual practices were enabled.
One of the main news is that there will no longer be only five players on the bench, but that number has been increased to seven and, as in most tournaments in the world, five changes per team will be allowed in the match.
Neither will journalists or photographers to the meeting, with the exception of those who work in the medium that transmits the games on television.
The Junior based their expectations for this game in their most experienced chips, such as goalkeeper Sebastián Viera and forward Teófilo Gutiérrez, as well as the scorer Miguel Borja and the central Germán Mera.
The last match that the Barranquiller club playedor it was on March 11 in Ecuador when they fell 3-0 with Independiente del Valle in the second day of Group A of the Copa Libertadores.
For its part, the Caleño team arrived renewed after the departures of the Brazilian coach Alexandre Guimaraes, who could not reach an agreement with the directives to continue with the team that won the championship in 2019; Rangel, who won the fans with his goals, and the Argentine winger Matías Pisano, who could not fix his continuity in America either.
Read also here: This is how Junior would form in the first leg final of the Águila Super League against America
In front of the ‘Diablos Rojos’ will be Argentine coach Juan Cruz Real, who was appointed as Guimaraes’ replacement and assured this Monday that his team has tried “to adapt as best as possible to the context” for this meeting.
“The best version of the team will be seeing measure that the league starts “, said the strategist in a press conference and added that both teams, due to the nature of the training sessions, they arrive “in the same conditions”.
Despite the departures, the America will pin its hopes on veteran striker Adrián Ramos; Carlos Sierra, outstanding performance midfielder, and Marlon Torres, leader of the defense.
“I think the group has accepted very well the idea that the teacher has transmitted to us, obviously we know that he does everything by looking at the players he has and we have a team that is always willing to grow“said Ramos, a former Granada and Borussia Dortmund player.
The last match that America played was on March 10 and in it defeated the Catholic University 1-2 at the San Carlos de Apoquindo stadium in Santiago for the second day of Group E of the Copa Libertadores.
– Probable lineups:
Junior: Sebastian Viera; Marlon Piedrahita, Germán Mera, Danny Rosero, Gabriel Fuentes; Didier Moreno, Larry Vásquez, Edwuin Cetré, Freddy Hinestroza; Teófilo Gutiérrez and Miguel Borja.
Coach: Julio Comesaña.
America from Cali: Éder Chaux; Cristian Camilo Arrieta, Marlon Torres, Juan Pablo Segovia, Edwin Velasco; Felipe Jaramillo, Rodrigo Ureña, Carlos Sierra; Duván Vergara, Juan David Pérez and Adrián Ramos.
DT: Juan Cruz Real
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