Colón vs Vélez Sarsfield Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Colón

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Colón are hoping to win again after their last result, a 2-1 Copa Libertadores success versus Cerro Porteno.

It’s not been often in recent games where Colón haven’t conceded. In fact, Colón have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 8 goals during that time. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, however.

Vélez Sarsfield

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Last time out, Vélez Sarsfield drew 1-1 in the Copa Libertadores tie with Red Bull Bragantino.

Vélez Sarsfield have been effective going forward in the lead-up to this encounter, having scored 7 goals in their previous 6 matches. Having said that, Vélez Sarsfield can also improve defensively after being scored against in 5 of those same matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 07/05/2016 shows that Colón have won 1 of these games & Vélez Sarsfield 4, with the tally of draws being 1.

A sum of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 4 from Los Sabaleros and 9 created by El Fortín. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The last league fixture between these clubs was Superliga match day 5 on 08/08/2021 when it finished Vélez Sarsfield 0-1 Colón.

In that game, Vélez Sarsfield managed 55% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 0 on target.

For their opponents, Colón had 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Facundo Farías (81') was the scorer.

The referee was Fernando Rapallini.

📰 Team News: Colón

The Colón manager Julio Falcioni will be thankful to have no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game with a fully injury-free squad available for selection.

📋 Team News: Vélez Sarsfield

Due to a completely healthy group to pick from, the Vélez Sarsfield boss Julio Vaccari does not have any fitness concerns to report before this clash.

🧠 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Vélez Sarsfield might need a bit of good fortune to breach the defence of this Colón team who we reckon should get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We therefore fancy a very even contest with a 1-0 advantage for Colón when all is said and done.

Expecting it to be tight.

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Andre Moura, 00:22 04/05/2022