📊 Form Guide

Argentinos Juniors

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Argentinos Juniors will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 4-0 Torneo Apertura success over Estudiantes de La Plata.

In that game, Argentinos Juniors had 58% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Argentinos Juniors, the goalscorers were Tomás Molina (26', 27'), Alan Lescano (60') and José María Herrera (65'). Estudiantes de La Plata had 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

Their more recent scorelines shine a light on the fact that not much more can be done by the Argentinos Juniors backline. Argentinos Juniors have kept it tight, with the tally of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their last six outings standing at 3. That kind of pattern might not be continued into this match, of course.

Instituto

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Instituto head into the match following on from a 1-2 Torneo Apertura win as they beat Talleres in their most recent game.

In that game, Instituto managed 34% possession and 10 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Instituto, the goals were scored by Alex Luna (43') and Damián Puebla (80'). On the other side, Talleres had 16 shots on goal with 4 on target. Matías Galarza (13') was the scorer for Talleres.

Instituto have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 9 times throughout their latest sextet of matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during that same period adds up to 8.

👥 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes going back to 12/03/2006 shows that Argentinos Juniors have won 3 of these & Instituto 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

10 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Bichitos Colorados and 4 coming from La Gloria (The Glory). That’s an average goals per game of 1.67.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was Torneo Apertura match day 8 on 02/03/2025 which ended up with the score at Argentinos Juniors 2-0 Instituto.

That day, Argentinos Juniors had 64% possession and 18 shots on goal with 4 on target. The scorers were Alan Rodríguez (55') and Tomás Molina (74').

At the other end, Instituto got 8 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Luis Lobo.

📋 Team News: Argentinos Juniors

The Argentinos Juniors manager doesn’t have any fitness worries at all ahead of this game owing to a completely injury-free squad available for selection.

It seems likely that Bichitos Colorados may well use a 4-3-3 formation this time, utilising Diego Rodríguez, Leandro Lozano, Francisco Alvarez, Erik Godoy, Sebastián Prieto, Alan Lescano, Federico Fattori, Nicolás Oroz, Emiliano Viveros, Tomas Molina and José Herrera.

🗞️ Team News: Instituto

Owing to a completely injury-free group available to select from, the Instituto manager doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game.

We reckon that La Gloria (The Glory) will likely begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup using Manuel Roffo, Juan Franco, Gonzalo Requena, Nicolás Zalazar, Elías Pereyra, Francis Mac Allister, Stefano Moreyra, Jeremías Lázaro, Gastón Lódico, Alex Luna and Luca Klimowicz.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Instituto are capable enough to find the back of the net against this Argentinos Juniors team, although that might not be enough to prevent defeat.

Our selection here is for both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Argentinos Juniors by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Should be a good one.

Andre Moura, 20:00 11/05/2025