Gustavo Costas’ team has three wins and one loss in this start and, like last year, Adrián Maravilla Martínez is being fundamental in the scoring section. However, in the training prior to the duel against the Matador, the Academy received bad news, and that is that the former forward of Instituto will be out due to a strain in the left soleus.
Beyond the fact that the Avellaneda team has enormous firepower – it is the highest scoring team in the championship – Maravilla is the one who accumulates the greatest number of celebrations. This year he scored against Barracas in the debut, two against Belgrano in the second date and finished the match against Boca last Saturday, thus scoring 44% of the team’s goals in this championship.
On average, this year he needs 87 minutes to score a goal, less than a full match. By Luis Fernández
If we count Costas’ cycle in general, Racing scored 111 goals, of which 34 were from the forward from Campana; that is, one out of every three goals from the Academy are his. To put it into context, second on this list is Maximiliano Salas with 10, 24 less than his attacking partner.
Martínez will be out for at least two games and Racing prays that this will be the case, since third on the list is the first leg against Botafogo for the Recopa Sudamericana. This slight injury, added to the importance that the attacker has for the team, makes it almost impossible for him not to be present next Thursday at the Cilindro against Fogao.
The forward who arrived from Unión started his cycle in Avellaneda on the right foot, scoring two goals in the first four games. Like Maravilla, he scored against Barracas and Belgrano. Therefore, despite the fact that he will have a significant absence, Costas knows that he can trust Rocky, his other boxer.
Foster Gillett’s lack of payment: Valentín Gómez trains in a square in Italy
The difficulties of Foster Gillett, the star businessman of the Argentine transfer market whose influence goes beyond the scope of Estudiantes, to get the money to Argentina began to yield the first consequences, to say the least, striking.
While in River the nervousness due to the non-appearance of the money for Rodrigo Villagra continues in crescendo, the situation in Vélez, even more economically urgent, is no less. Meanwhile, Valentín Gómez seems to officiate as the forgotten actor of history: already in Italy, with the medical examination passed and prevented from joining Udinese until the closing of the operation, he was forced to train on his own in a square!
Fortín, who already suffered pressure from Mateo Pellegrino to go to Parma – for a million dollars for half the transfer, which sounded scarce for one of the young scorers of the last tournament – and signed a purchase obligation for Christian Ordóñez in June if they do not go down to Serie B, does not want to know anything more about concessions and did not authorize the defender to join his new club until the operation is closed, protected by the fact that his counterpart was Gillett and not Udinese.
Although there was talk of a possible deadline until April to pay the termination, Liniers believes that it is a matter of time before the money arrives and it is expected to be in the next few days. The obstacle would be generated in the United States, where a triangulation of funds is taking place that forces the businessman to justify their origin.
Lanús closed the arrival of Armando Méndez
Lanús announced a new addition to the squad led by Mauricio Pellegrino. This is the Uruguayan full-back Armando Méndez, who had no place at Newell’s, who arrives for a year on loan with a fee and an option to buy.
The management of the team from the south of the province of Buenos Aires went to the market to look for a replacement for Juan José Cáceres, who has had everything agreed verbally with Dynamo Moscow a few days ago, although the transfer of the Paraguayan player to Russian football has not yet been closed.
This seems to be a matter of details, it remains for the papers and guarantees to arrive so that the footballer can travel to have his check-up and sign his contract. Lanús has 50 percent of the transfer, acquired at the end of December last year from Racing for 1.2 million dollars.
Now, Dynamo Moscow acquires the total of the transfer from both Argentine clubs for approximately five million dollars to be divided between Granate and La Academia.
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