Velez de Barros faces Schelotto

Bautista Merlini will try to give the game to the Tribeiro team/archive

In the midst of the tranquility provided by victory in the Monumental but after an erratic week in which the team implemented aggressive measures due to salary debts (see separate), Gimnasia will host Velez this afternoon from 5:00 p.m. In a match that will be marked by the return of Guillermo Barros Schelotto to the jungle to face his son Nicolas, who will play his third match as a starting player in the Sana men’s team.

The match referee is Yael Falcon Pérez, assistants Andres Barbieri and Mariana de Almeida, while the fourth official is Franco Aquita. Fernando Echenique will be in charge of VAR and will collaborate with Javier Ozega. The meeting will be broadcast on ESPN Premium and will be broadcast by La Redonda.

El Lobo arrives at this farewell in the jungle with the guarantee of permanence (favored by Godoy Cruz’s defeat last night) and after an unexpected victory over River that provided comfort in the battle to avoid relegation. From a global analytical perspective, Tribeiro’s team has had a very bad season, scoring only 32 points in 30 matches. However, the peculiarities of the tournament give them the possibility of qualifying for the playoffs, and even more so if San Martin loses this category. Sarmiento, Atletico Tucuman and Instituto will compete with Tripeiro for eighth place should San Juan be relegated.

Despite the difficulties of the weekly work, the coach decided to repeat the team that achieved a basic victory in Monumental, and yesterday he approved the same formation to face Fortin. The only changes in the team roster are the entry of youngster Alejo Gelsomino (20 years old, centre-back or left-back, for the first time among the substitutes) in place of the suspended Gaston Suso and the return to the roster of Franco Torres in place of Norberto Briasco.

As for the starting lineup, Lucio Zanerato will respect a 4-2-3-1 formation (“The idea is to put four strikers in the opponent’s box,” he said last week) with Augusto Max – Nicolas Barros Schelotto tandem in midfield, Manuel Panaro and Alejandro Piedraita on the wings, and Bautista Merlini behind centre-forward Marcelo Torres and the premise of trying to combine passes to reach the goal line. Opposition goal with more people without relying exclusively on Individual imbalance abroad.

Velez arrives in the forest, sorted. Guillermo Barros Schelotto’s team will be absent several times. Their top scorer Brian Romero is out of sorts and will be out for three weeks. Dylan Godoy will play in his place. In addition, Melizo will also not be able to rely on the injured Emanuel Mamana and Lesando Magallanes, so Aaron Quiros and Thiago Silverio will be the starting centre-back, although Velez experimented with an entirely young line of back three with Leonel Roldan, Kevin Vazquez and Thomas Kavanagh.

Guillermo and Gustavo Barros Schelotto will be honored in the locker room area before the game. For Guillermo, it will be a special match, since in front of him his son Nicolas will wear the Sana men’s jacket No. 17, which extends on the field the title that Hugo Barros Schelotto was interim president of the club in 1983 and the doctor of the professional teams, and who, together with Guillermo and Gustavo, continued to spread blood in the names of Juan Cataldi (son of Carolina) and Bautista Barros Schelotto (son of Pablo), his cousins. Current midfielder Tripero. There is another peculiarity: although there were coaches who trained their children at Lobo (Jose and Claudio Farraca, Dario and Nicolas Ortiz), the status of the father as a rival coach never arose.