Overview

• River is set to host Sarmiento on Sunday, Oct. 12 at 19:15 at the Monumental on TNT Sports, with multiple outlets reporting at least 14 absences and some counting 15.
• Six players are on national-team duty: Gonzalo Montiel, Marcos Acuña and Lautaro Rivero with Argentina, Juan Fernando Quintero and Kevin Castaño with Colombia, and Matías Galarza with Paraguay.
• The injured group includes Germán Pezzella, Enzo Pérez, Giorgio Costantini, Maximiliano Meza, Gonzalo Martínez, Agustín Ruberto and Sebastián Driussi, with cautious optimism that Pérez and Driussi could rejoin training this week.
• Suspensions remove Maximiliano Salas, who must serve one more match, and Juan Portillo, sent off against Rosario Central.
• After the 2-1 defeat at Rosario Central, Gallardo criticized the FIFA calendar, referee Yael Falcón Pérez and the AFA, and River’s annual-table position has slipped toward a Repechaje zone.