River Plate vs. Urawa Red Diamonds: time and where to see the Club World Cup | Kevin Castaño | Miguel Borja

Kevin Castaño, footballer of the Colombian National Team and River Plate.

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River Plate begins on Tuesday its journey in the Club World Cup in front of the Modesto Urawa Red Diamonds Japanese, a rival affordable to which he must add three points to start with good footing in group E, which complete Monterrey and Inter of Milan.

Marcelo Gallardo's men will debut at the Lumen Field Stadium in Seattle before a little known team outside Japan, but very popular in the Asian country, where he has a large hobby.

In the United States, the millionaire team will have to leave behind its recent elimination in the quarterfinals of the Argentine Opening Tournament and show a good image among the elite of world football.

“Being part of a tournament with such a hierarchy at birth, with teams from all over the world competing in the same place, generates great expectation,” Gallardo told FIFA about the new World Cup format with 32 teams.

The Argentine coach will have among its main stings the talent of Franco Mastantuono, who will take his last steps with the red band shirt before joining the almighty Real Madrid in August.

Zurdo skilled and fast, the 17 -year -old flyer, considered as the new Argentine jewel, will be one of the attractions of the competition with other promises such as Estevão, del Palmeiras, or Rodrigo Mora, Del Porto.

River's options will go through a good connection between Mastantuono, Sebastián Driussi and Facundo Colidio, the offensive trident with which Gallardo solved the lack of goal of the team.

The most successful technician in the history of River will have a complete template after six injured obtained medical discharge, including Gonzalo Montiel and Paulo Díaz, who will apply for ownership in the rear. In the center of the countryside, veterans Enzo Pérez and Ignacio Fernández will contribute their experience with the Colombian international Kevin Castaño.

Urawa Red Diamonds, Japanese pride

A Seattle, The band It will face a team with more international than domestic successes. The Urawa Red, born in 1950 as the Mitsubishi company team, has won the Asian Champions League three times, but only once the Japanese professional championship, in 2006.

He participated three times in the Club World Cup under his old format with seven teams, the last one in 2023, when he fell defeated 3-0 by Manchester City.

The Japanese club has no renowned players in a squad led by Swedish midfielder Samuel Gustafson, tanned in several Italian Series teams, and goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa, former international with the Japanese team.

“The competition will receive close attention from all over the world and has great meaning for us,” said Nishikawa before the start of the tournament. “Who knows if a Japanese team will play it again, because you have to be champion of Asia to win that right.”

Probable alignments:

River Plate: Franco Armani – Gonzalo Montiel, Lucas Martínez Quarta, Paulo Díaz, Marcos Acuña – Kevin Castaño, Enzo Pérez, Ignacio Fernández – Franco Mastantuono, Sebastián Driussi and Facundo Colidio. DT: Marcelo Gallardo.

Urba Red Diamonds: Shusaku Nishikawa – Hirokazu Ishihara, Danilo Boza, Marius Hoibraten, Yoichi Naganuma – Kaito Yasui, Samuel Gustafson, Takuro Kaneko, Ryoma Watanabe, Matheus Savio – Yusuke Matsuo. DT: Maciej Skorza.