River Plate traveled tonight to the Mexican city of Monterrey, where on Wednesday they will face the first final of the Copa Libertadores against the local team Tigres.
The coach Marcelo Gallardo has only one question mark in the left side of the midfield to form his starting team with three candidates: Luis González, Gonzalo Martínez, and Uruguayan Tabaré Viudez.
To solve this doubt, the coaching staff will wait for the last training session in Mexican territory, with the return of Leonardo Ponzio after serving his suspension in the semifinal match against Paraguayan Guaraní.
In this way, the Argentine team will line up for the first final in Monterrey with Marcelo Barovero; Gabriel Mercado, Jonatan Maidana, Ramiro Funes Mori, and Leonel Vangioni; Carlos Sánchez, Matías Kranevitter, Ponzio, and Luis González or Gonzalo Martínez or Tabaré Viudez; Rodrigo Mora and Lucas Alario.
The 'millonaria' squad is completed by eight players who also traveled to Mexico: Julio Chiarini, Eder Alvarez Balanta, Emanuel Mammana, Camilo Mayada, Sebastián Driussi, Nicolás Bertolo, Fernando Cavenaghi, and Javier Saviola.
The Argentine delegation traveled tonight on a commercial flight to Cancun and from there will take a special charter to arrive on Monday afternoon in Monterrey.
River comes into this match after their 3-1 victory against Colón in the eighteenth round of the domestic championship, which places them second, three points behind the leader, Boca Juniors.
For this local tournament, River requested the rescheduling of their next two matches: an away game against Defensa y Justicia and a home game against San Martín de San Juan, due to the dispute of these Copa Liberatores finals, and then the trip to Tokyo to face Japanese team Gamba Osaka in the Suruga Bank Cup.