Barcelona SC and Montevideo City Torque define the round pass in Copa Libertadores

Barcelona Sporting Club and the Uruguayan Montevideo City Torque will go out on Tuesday to all or nothing to qualify for the second phase (preliminaries) of the Copa Libertadores, after a 1-1 draw in the first leg.

The Canarians consider that, in their stadium and with 50% of the capacity authorized by the health and control authorities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team’s performance will be different.

This is because the players and coaching staff of the Ecuadorian club did not hide the unease that the draw left them at the Centenario stadium, after the victory that with a goal from the Uruguayan Gonzalo Mastriani, from the 7th minute, they could not sustain and ended up giving up the tie in the 64th minute.

The players of the 2021 Libertadores semifinalist pointed out that, after the first official match they played in the current season and for Libertadores, they will hope to show improvement to keep the ticket to the next phase, where they will wait for the winner, the University of Sports of Peru.

The bullfighter coach, the Argentine Fabián Bustos, could miss the generator of the game in the midfield, the naturalized Ecuadorian Argentine Damián Díaz, expelled from the substitute bench in the final part of the previous match.

Although the coach has not hinted at Diaz’s replacement, sources point to Erick Castillo or Christian Penilla among the options to replace him.

Meanwhile, the Uruguayan midfielder Bruno Piñatares would reappear, after serving a suspension in the Libertadores last year.

For its part, the Uruguayan team already knows what it means to win a Conmebol tournament as a visitor, such as the victory achieved in its first appearance in the 2020 South American Cup by 2-4 in Salvador de Bahía, against the Brazilian team from Bahía .

In the Uruguayan League they tied in the match against Cerro Largo and last Friday they lost 1-2 to Fénix, in which their coach Román Cuello tried to rest several of the starters against Barcelona.

Barcelona SC vs. Montevideo City Torque – Technical Sheet

Barcelona: Javier Burrai; Byron Castillo, Darío Aimar, Luca Sosa, Leonel Quiñónez; Bruno Piñatares, Leonai Souza, Emmanuel Martínez, Erick Castillo; Adonis Preciado and Gonzalo Mastriani. DT: Fabian Bustos.

Montevideo City Torque: Gaston Guruciaga; Agustín Peña, Joaquín Pereyra, Diego Arismendi, José Álvarez; Matías Santos, Nicolás Milesi, Darío Pereira, Marcelo Allende; Juan Cejas and Joaquin Cevallos. DT: Roman Neck.

Referee: Anderson Daronco, from Brazil, assisted by his compatriots Marcelo Van Gasse and Neuza Back.

Stadium: Monumental Banco Pichincha

Hour: 7:30 p.m., local. (D)