Confirmed headquarters for the first leg between River and Libertad, by the Copa Libertadores

The millionaire will visit the Paraguayan team at the La Huerta stadium on August 14 for the first crossing of the continental contest.

While River focuses on its second presentation in Group E of the Club World Cupwhich will be this Saturday against Rayados de Monterrey, from 22, the millionaire already knows the schedule that awaits him when he ends his participation in the competition and focuses on the second semester in which The Copa Libertadores will be its great goal, a contest for which it will have to go to Paraguay.

August 14, Marcelo Gallardo's team will visit Libertad for the first leg of the round of 16 And the headquarters are already known after several weeks of uncertainty. The stage will be the La Huerta stadium, previously known as Nicolás Léoz.

At first the meeting was going to be played in the defenders of the Chacomythical enclosure of that country that usually is the house of its selected and in which several important matches are played because it is the one with the greatest training (42,000 spectators).

However, finally Freedom will prioritize playing at home and will move to the garden. It happens that the stadium, for 14 thousand spectators, It was rehabilitated this year after having remodeled its facilities through a Conmebol support program. Until 2021 the enclosure was called Nicolás Léoz, who died when he was investigated by bribes in the framework of Fifagate, so it was decided to remove his name.

In this way, River will begin its tour in the eighths in this stadium located in Asunción, the capital of the country. Then, On Thursday 21 of the same month he will receive in the Monumental the Guaraní team for the duel back of the eighths.