Muscle tear disrupts Vélez's plans ahead of Unión | OneFootball

With a spot in the round of 16 already secured, Vélez is focused on this final stretch of the Torneo Apertura regular phase, aiming not to repeat past mistakes and to keep picking up three points at a time in order to secure home-field advantage and not lose ground in the overall standings. After the latest draw with San Lorenzo, the team knows it fell short in its performance and is already thinking about bouncing back on Monday against Unión.

For now, this Wednesday confirmed what had seemed inevitable: the injury that forced Lisandro Magallán off early in the match at Bajo Flores is a muscle tear, more precisely in his left hamstring, so he is expected to miss three weeks of action, a significant absence considering the tournament has just over a month left.

Even so, Guillermo Barros Schelotto has good replacements in that area. At the Nuevo Gasómetro, he immediately replaced Licha with Aaron Quirós, who has the advantage of being left-footed and therefore a natural second center back.

Another option on that same side of the defense, although right-footed, is Thiago Silvero, but the coach sees him more as an alternative to Emanuel Mammana because of his profile. In fact, he had finished last year as a starter in that position when the former River player was injured. By contrast, the youngster, who just turned 20, only started in 2026 as an improvised right back when Joaquín García got injured.

It remains to be seen, then, whether the Twin will stick with Quirós or take a chance on Silvero, while in the coming days he will also have to decide how to set up the midfield and attack, bearing in mind that he usually changes them depending on the opponent and that against El Ciclón the team showed serious shortcomings in winning the ball back.

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