Daniel Garnero, Paraguay coach, in a friendly match against Peru, last Friday. EFE/ Paolo Aguilar
Photo: EFE – Paolo Aguilar
The Chilean team faces this Tuesday, with the absence of defenders Paulo Díaz and Guillermo Maripán, a Paraguay that will present some changes in what will be the last test for both before traveling to the United States for the start of the Copa América 2024 .
The duel, which will be played at the National Stadium in the Chilean capital, starting at 7:00 pm, will be the first in which the La Roja coach, Ricardo Gareca, coaches on Chilean soil and will observe the return of the team to the Stadium. Nacional, after four years without being able to use the venue, for which the strategist said that “we would like to have a good result.”
The test against the Guaraníes will give the Argentine coach the opportunity to check the extent of his call for the continental competition, where he will face Peru, Argentina and Canada in group A, and in which he had to emergency add defender Benjamín Kuscevic , who plays for the Brazilian team Fortaleza.
Díaz, who plays for the Argentine River Plate, and Maripán of the French Marseille have been doing different jobs due to physical discomfort, although they hope that they will not represent a loss for the Copa América like the Danish Midtjylland midfielder Darío Osorio.
It will be a game for Gareca to measure the response of several players whom he could not observe in the friendlies against Albania and France, such as Erick Pulgar and Diego Valdés, and he will make decisions to offer his final list before flying to the United States next Sunday.
The Argentine coach has tried a 4-1-4-1 scheme in which his only forward would once again be Eduardo Vargas, while Alexis Sánchez would be behind the forward, although he did not confirm the starting formation.
Paraguay gets ready to face Colombia
Paraguay, which is part of group D in the Copa América along with Colombia, Brazil and Costa Rica, comes to this match after having tied 0-0 with Peru in a friendly duel played last Friday in Lima.
The Guarani coach, Argentine Daniel Garnero, announced that for this match against La Roja he will change tactics and was optimistic about “the individual and collective evolution” of his team.
“We are going to change, I have no other way to prove it than to do it by competing. “He is already talking to the players,” said the coach who will use the duel to make his final evaluations prior to the delivery of the final list for the continental competition, although it is expected that the English Newcastle United footballer Miguel Almirón will be one of those who will repeat in the alignment.
His team will debut in the Cup on Monday, June 24, when it faces Colombia, which has just beaten the United States 5-1, and on Saturday it will play against Bolivia.
Probable alignments of Chile and Paraguay:
Chile: Claudio Bravo; Mauricio Isla, Matías Catalán, Igor Lichnovsky, Gabriel Suazo; Erick Pulgar, Marcelino Núñez, Rodrigo Echeverría, Víctor Dávila, Alexis Sánchez; Eduardo Vargas. DT: Ricardo Gareca.
Paraguay: Carlos Coronel; Iván Ramírez, Gustavo Gómez, Omar Alderete, Junior Alonso; Andrés Cubas, Mathias Villasanti, Ramón Sosa, Miguel Almirón; Julio Enciso and Adam Bareiro. DT: Daniel Garnero.
