Tigre vs Atlético Tucumán Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Tigre

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Tigre will be looking for an improved result here following a 2-1 Superliga loss in their previous game against Independiente.

In that match, Tigre had 53% possession and 9 shots at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Tigre was Mateo Retegui (31'). Independiente got 13 shots on goal with 4 on target. Nicolás Vallejo (5') and Martín Cauteruccio (95') scored for Independiente.

Tigre have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They have claimed a sum of 10 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6.

Atlético Tucumán

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Argentinos Juniors in Superliga competition, Atlético Tucumán and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Atlético Tucumán had 45% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Atlético Tucumán was Cristian Menéndez (43'). For their opponents, Argentinos Juniors got 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Kevin Mac Allister (14') and Gabriel Ávalos (47') scored for Argentinos Juniors.

The stats don’t lie, and Atlético Tucumán have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 7 goals in all. Defensively, Atlético Tucumán have been far from perfect. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be sustained here, of course.

Coming into this fixture, Atlético Tucumán haven't been defeated by Tigre in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 06/04/2010 tells us that Tigre have won 2 of them and Atlético Tucumán 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

A combined sum of 12 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 from Matadores and 4 netted by El Decano. The average goals per game has been 2.

The previous league contest between the two was Superliga match day 14 on 17/08/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Tigre 0-0 Atlético Tucumán.

That day, Tigre managed 60% possession and 7 shots on goal with 3 on target.

On the other side, Atlético Tucumán got 10 shots at goal with 5 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Dario Herrera.

ℹ️ Team News: Tigre

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just one fitness concern for the Tigre manager Diego Martínez to contend with due to a largely intact set of players. Ijiel Protti (Achilles tendon rupture) misses out.

📰 Team News: Atlético Tucumán

Due to a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Atlético Tucumán boss Lucas Pusineri doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Atlético Tucumán will need to apply a lot of pressure to put one past this Tigre outfit who we think might well be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We’ve gone for a good tussle with a 1-0 victory for Tigre at the end of this one.

Let’s see how it plays out.

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Lucas Pereira, 01:00 17/05/2023