LDU Quito vs Always Ready - prediction, team news, lineups

LDU Quito and Always Ready volition reason their Copa Libertadores group-stage bids connected Tuesday, erstwhile they quadrate disconnected successful the last circular of games astatine the Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado.

The hosts request a constituent to warrant a top-two decorativeness and spot successful the circular of 16, portion their visitors indispensable triumph to basal a accidental of finishing 3rd and salvaging a spot successful the Copa Sudamericana.

Match preview

LDU Quito instrumentality to Copa Libertadores enactment connected Tuesday aiming to circular disconnected the radical signifier with a triumph to warrant their ronud-of-16 progression and the accidental to instrumentality apical spot.

They earned introduction into the radical signifier with a second-placed decorativeness successful Ecuador's apical formation successful 2025 and made a beardown start, winning 1-0 distant astatine Always Ready successful the archetypal outing earlier beating Brazilian broadside Mirassol 2-0 astatine home.

A brace of distant losses past followed to Lanus and Mirassol, but Tiago Nunes's broadside were capable to avenge the erstwhile past week, hosting Lanus connected the backmost of a brace of league wins to ascent to 4th spot.

The Albos took a 3rd three-point haul of the radical signifier successful a 2-0 triumph successful Ecuador, starring done a 74th-minute Felipe Pena Biafore ain extremity earlier Fernando Cornejo enactment the crippled retired of show successful wounded time.

Now sitting 2nd connected 9 points successful the apical 2 spots that assistance progression to the circular of 16, 3 points down leaders Mirassol and 3 up of third-placed Lanus, LDU Quito caput into Wednesday's crippled connected the backmost of a league gully with Deportivo Cuenca knowing a gully would beryllium capable to warrant their knockout spot but a triumph could spot them instrumentality apical spot.

Their visitors, meanwhile, get with faint hopes of pinching 3rd spot with a triumph successful their last radical outing.

Always Ready made a instrumentality to the Copa Libertadores radical signifier for the archetypal clip since 2022 this twelvemonth by winning their 4th Bolivian apical formation successful 2025, but they person had a pugnacious campaign, opening with the location nonaccomplishment to Tuesday's hosts earlier falling abbreviated against Lanus and Mirassol away.

A archetypal triumph did past travel astatine location to Lanus, arsenic Richet Gomez, Enrique Triverio, Joel Amoroso and Marcelo Suarez scored successful a ascendant 4-0 beating, but they failed to physique connected that and instrumentality 3rd spot past week.

On the backmost of a home gully and location decision to The Strongest, leaving them 3rd successful the Bolovian Division Profesional, Julio Cesar Baldivieso's broadside hosted Mirassol past Wednesday and fell down lone to level successful the 75th infinitesimal done Jesus Maraude, but Nathan Fogaca restored the visitors' pb and snatched the constituent 8 minutes from time.

Now sitting 4th and 3 points down Lanus successful 3rd spot, which would spot them driblet into the Copa Sudamericana knockouts, Always Ready indispensable triumph distant from location connected Wednesday portion hoping Mirassol bushed Lanus to proceed their continental campaign.

LDU Quito Copa Libertadores form:

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Team News

LDU Quito are incapable to telephone connected defender Luis Segovia, who is suspended for a crippled having reached 3 yellowish cards successful the radical signifier past clip out.

Attacker Janner Corozo volition besides proceed to miss retired with an wounded that has sidelined him since mid-April, meaning Michael Estrada and Deyverson whitethorn again pb the line.

Elsewhere, Cornejo, Gabriel Villamil and Jesus Pretell are each cardinal men successful the centre and volition proceed connected Wednesday, with Cornejo successful peculiar lending enactment to the beforehand 2 from midfield.

Always Ready are acceptable to stay without defender Luis Caicedo, who has missed the past 4 games done injury, portion Dario Torrico was besides forced off  successful the archetypal fractional against Mirassol.

18-year-old Maraude volition proceed to get the motion connected the wing, having scored his archetypal Copa Libertadores extremity past week, making it 2 goals and 2 assists successful his past 7 matches successful each competitions.

Veteran Enrique Triverio whitethorn proceed to pb the line, portion Hector Cuellar and Fernando Saucedo are mainstays successful the motor room.

LDU Quito imaginable starting lineup:

Valle; Menendez, Ade, L Quinonez; Quintero, Cornejo, Pretell, Villamill, Y Quinonez; Deyverson, Estrada

Always Ready imaginable starting lineup:

Baroja; Rodriguez, Gomez, Suarez, Rodriguez; Cuellar; Nava, Saucedo, Lima, Maraude; Triverio

We say: LDU Quito 2-0 Always Ready

While Always Ready request a triumph to basal a accidental of salvaging 3rd spot and a gully would beryllium capable for LDU Quito, we inactive spot the hosts having excessively overmuch prime for the Bolivian champions and ending the radical signifier with a 4th triumph and a cleanable location record.

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