Auckland City have a fully fit and available squad for their final group stage clash with Boca Juniors

Auckland City team news: Fully fit

Auckland City have a fully fit and available squad for their final group stage clash with Boca Juniors with no fresh injury concerns or suspension issues. That means they will be able to name an unchanged eleven for this one.

Predicted XI (3-4-3): Garrow; Mitchell, Den Heijer, Boxall; Kanui Bell, Zhou, Ilich, Lagos Giraldo; Yoo, Bevan, Zeb.

Boca Juniors team news: A few issues

Boca Juniors have a few key issues for this clash against Auckland City as both Nicolas Figal and Ander Herrera are missing through suspension. As well as that, they have a couple of key injuries such as Sergio Romero and Edinson Cavani.

Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Marchesin; Luis Advinculla, Di Lollo, Costa, Blanco; Belmonte, Battaglia; Zenon, Carlos Palacios, Velasco; Miguel Merentiel.

Key stats

• Auckland City are without a win in their last 11 FIFA club competition matches (W0 D1 L10), since a 1-0 victory against Algerian team ES Sétif in the quarter finals of the competition now known as the FIFA Intercontinental Cup™ in Morocco in December 2014.
• Auckland City’s only previous competitive encounter with South American opposition was a 2-1 extra-time defeat by Argentina’s San Lorenzo in the semi-final of what is now known as the FIFA Intercontinental Cup™ in 2014.
• This is Boca’s first FIFA competition match against a team from the OFC.
• Excluding penalty shoot-outs, Boca are without a win in their last six competitive matches (D3 L3).
• Boca Juniors trio Brian Aguirre, Lautaro Di Lollo and Ignacio Miramón faced Auckland’s Jackson Manuel in Argentina’s 5-0 victory against New Zealand in the group stage at the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.