Sebastián Driussi opens the score in the second arrival of River to the local area. Fifth goal in five games for the millionaire striker.
Mastantuono test from the outside of the area. Contreras goalkeeper controls.
The first half began.
Barcelona and River are already on the playing field.
This is how River goes for your visit to Barcelona: Armani; Montiel, Martínez Quarta, Paulo Díaz and Acuña; Enzo Pérez, Castaño and Nacho Fernández; Mastantuono; Driussi and Colidio.
This is how Barcelona goes.
Stefano Di Carlo, general secretary of River, dismissed the linked versions about the possible arrival of Uruguayan Darvin Núñez to the Millionaire to play the Club World Cup.
The millionaire continues at the head of the group C of the Copa Libertadores with 5 points over 9 possible. In his continental debut, he beat University 1-0 in Lima, then equalized 0-0 against Barcelona in Ecuador in the Monumental and, more recently, tied 2-2 in Quito against Independiente del Valle, in a high voltage match played more than 2,800 meters high. The team led by Marcelo Gallardo arrives on this fourth day with the mood of having won two fundamental matches in the Opening Tournament. First, 2-1 was imposed on a vibrant superclassic before Boca in La Bombonera. And a few days later, he deployed his best offensive version by winning Vélez 4-1 at home.
On the continental plane, Barcelona in Guayaquil has the urgency of winning tonight to accommodate in the table, where it appears in third place, with 4 units. Its low offensive efficacy, added to the surprise defeat as a local against University of Peru on the previous date, conditions its aspirations in the most important contest in America.
Barcelona: José David Contreras; Bryan Carabalí, Xavier Arreaga, Gustavo Vallecilla, Mario Pineida; Jesús Trindade; Byron Castillo, Leonai Souza, Janner Corozo; Gabriel Cortez, Octavio Rivero. River: Franco Armani; Gonzalo Montiel or Fabricio Bustos, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Paulo Díaz, Marcos Acuña; Kevin Castaño, Enzo Pérez, Giuliano Galoppo; Franco Mastantuono, Sebastián Driussi, Facundo Colidio.
Here begins the minute by minute of the match between Barcelona of Ecuador and River, by date 4 of Group B of the Copa Libertadores. The match is played from 21.30 in Guayaquil, with the arbitration of the Colombian Wilmar Roldán and the television of Fox Sports and Telefe.
