Rosario Central vs Argentinos Juniors Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Rosario Central

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Rosario Central are hoping to win again following the 1-0 Superliga success versus Argentinos Juniors.

In that match, Rosario Central had 23% possession and 2 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Rosario Central was Jhonatan Candia (19'). For their opponents, Argentinos Juniors got 3 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

It has been seldom in recent times that Rosario Central have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Rosario Central have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 8 goals in the process. That aside, we must now wait to see if the trend will be sustained here in this match or not.

Argentinos Juniors

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A run of very capable showings by the Argentinos Juniors defence has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 4 from their last 6 outings combined. Over that same period, their own attack force has managed to score 7.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 14/10/2017 shows us that Rosario Central have won 2 of them and Argentinos Juniors 4, with the number of drawn games being 0.

A total of 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 of them for El Canalla and 9 belonging to Bichitos Colorados. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Superliga match day 18 on 08/09/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Argentinos Juniors 2-1 Rosario Central.

That time, Argentinos Juniors had 50% possession and 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Kevin Mac Allister (34') and Gastón Verón (54').

Rosario Central had 12 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Kevin Ortíz (68') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Pablo Echavarría.

📰 Team News: Rosario Central

The Rosario Central manager Miguel Russo doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash owing to a fully injury-free group ready to go.

📋 Team News: Argentinos Juniors

Owing to a fully healthy group available to choose from, the Argentinos Juniors boss Gabriel Milito does not have any fitness worries to report coming into this clash.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Rosario Central will do well to break down this Argentinos Juniors team who we reckon will score & stay on top.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good tussle with a 0-1 winning margin for Argentinos Juniors when the referee blows for full-time.

A close call.

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Peter Guest, 00:52 23/01/2023