Costas in trouble: Racing missing key players for Boca semi-final clash | OneFootball

The Academy eliminated Tigre and advanced to the next round of the Clausura, but ended with two players sent off, adding to another with muscle discomfort.

Racing's great victory over Tigre by 4-2 in penalties, which qualified them for the semifinals of the Clausura, where Boca awaits, left Gustavo Costas' team with a couple of significant absences because Santiago Sosa and Gastón Martirena were sent off and will not be able to play in the classic.

The Uruguayan saw the red card 10 minutes into extra time for an alleged gesture or insult against referee Andrés Merlos, who showed him the second yellow while reviewing a possible penalty for the Academy and sent him to the locker room, a moment that unleashed the right-back's fury.

Meanwhile, the midfielder had been booked just past the first half-hour of play after stopping a counterattack and at 117 minutes received his second card for a kick to the face against forward Alfio Oviedo.

Although the excitement is settling down in Avellaneda after another joyful moment, the coaching staff will start thinking about the classic. The most likely replacement at right-back is Facundo Mura, who has not yet renewed his contract and might leave at the end of the year, while in the midfield there are several options: Bruno Zuculini, Alan Forneris, or even Franco Pardo, originally a central defender who came on against the Matador for the final minutes.

But the bad news for Racing might not be limited to those cases because they will need to see how the players who played the entire match and extra time ended up physically, so they will be evaluated during the week.

It is known that forward Santiago Solari, who was replaced by Marco Di Césare at 119, ended with muscle discomfort. Television cameras captured the former Defensa y Justicia player making a gesture as if a muscle had torn, and he will undergo tests to see if he will miss the clash with Boca or not.

Additionally, there are others who were not even available against Tigre and there is no confirmed date for their return, such as Marcos Rojo, Luciano Vietto, Ignacio Rodríguez, and Matías Zaracho. Meanwhile,

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