[En Vivo] Barcelona SC 0-0 Montevideo City Torque | Key 1 | CONMEBOL – Copa Libertadores 2022

Barcelona Sporting Club will play today the passage to the second round of the preliminary phase of the Copa Libertadores when they host Montevideo City Torque, at the Monumental Banco Pichincha stadium. In the first leg, in Uruguay, the duel was 1-1.

In the event of a new equality – the double value of away goals no longer runs – today the classification will be decided on penalty kicks.

The Canarian technical director, the Argentine Fabián Bustos, asserted yesterday that, having Damián Díaz out, playing with two forwards in the area “is an alternative” that his working group manages to face tonight’s match. However, Gabriel Cortez could also integrate the starting role, replacing the Argentine-Ecuadorian, expelled with a direct red card in Uruguay.

“A player with the style and characteristics (of Díaz), there is (Gabriel) Cortez. Playing with double ‘9’ could also be one of the alternatives, we have (Gonzalo) Mastriani and (Carlos) Garcés. (Erick) Castillo can begin to have minutes and that will make us a better team and he can play behind the striker or as a winger on either side,” said the coach.

As for the midfield that he used in Montevideo, made up of Leonai Souza and Michael Carcelén, the Argentine coach highlighted the participation of both, especially in the first half. “The first half was very good, for both of us. More than anything in the recovery of Souza and the game of Carcelén. The last 15 minutes of the first half were our best moment, where we had the chance to leave with a bigger result at the break”.

“We are going to try to push high, but it is a team with many variants and the ways to hurt him vary. We have already done all this analysis. When they have low block we will have patience and mobility to mess them up. It doesn’t bother me that they have more of it because there are teams that generally have more of it (the ball), I want a team similar to the one in the first half (in Uruguay): that creates situations, that has a chance to convert”, analyzed the coach.

The Uruguayan Ramón Cuello, helmsman of the citizen group, expressed in turn that “the series is still open. I would have liked to have scored a few more goals. The key is open and we go with the illusion of bringing us the classification”. (D)