📏 Form Guide

Boca Juniors

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Boca Juniors will be looking for another win after a 4-2 Copa de la Liga Profesional triumph over Racing Club.

In that game, Boca Juniors had 39% possession and 12 shots on goal with 7 on target. For Boca Juniors, the goalscorers were Lucas Blondel (26'), Edinson Cavani (60') and Nicolás Valentini (81'). At the other end, Racing Club got 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Juan Quintero (33'), Adrián Martínez (47') and Nazareno Colombo (49' Own goal) scored for Racing Club.

It has been seldom in recent games that Boca Juniors have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Boca Juniors have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 8 goals along the way.

San Lorenzo

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San Lorenzo will come into the encounter following a 1-0 Copa de la Liga Profesional win over Godoy Cruz in their previous fixture.

In that match, San Lorenzo managed 40% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for San Lorenzo was Cristian Tarragona (67'). For their opponents, Godoy Cruz got 11 shots on goal with 3 on target.

A tendency of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring San Lorenzo has been evident of late. Examining their last 6 meetings shows that it’s occurred 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have hit a goal aggregate of 2 while San Lorenzo have scored 6. It will be interesting to find out if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 10/03/2019 tells us that Boca Juniors have won 2 of them and San Lorenzo 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined sum of 13 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 7 for Los Xeneizes and 6 netted by Ciclón. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The last league clash featuring these clubs was Copa de la Liga Profesional match day 12 on 08/11/2023 when it ended San Lorenzo 1-1 Boca Juniors.

In that match, San Lorenzo had 37% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Adam Bareiro (74').

Boca Juniors got 12 shots on goal with 3 on target. Miguel Ángel Merentiel (51') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Pablo Echavarría.

📰 Team News: Boca Juniors

Nicolás Figal (Inner ligament stretch of the knee), Sergio Romero (Achilles tendon irritation) and Exequiel Zeballos (Cruciate ligament tear) are unavailable for Boca Juniors boss Diego Martínez.

📰 Team News: San Lorenzo

San Lorenzo boss Rubén Insúa has a number of players out of action. Gastón Hernández (Cruciate ligament tear) and Manuel Insaurralde (Cruciate ligament tear) miss out here.

💡 Prediction

Our feeling is that San Lorenzo should get enough chances to score against this Boca Juniors outfit, but it probably shouldn’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re predicting both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Boca Juniors when all is said and done. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 19:00 30/03/2024