Defensa y Justicia vs Vélez Sarsfield Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Defensa y Justicia

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Defensa y Justicia will be wanting a better result here following the 2-1 Superliga loss in their previous game against Godoy Cruz.

In that game, Defensa y Justicia managed 57% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Defensa y Justicia was Francisco Pizzini (14'). For their opponents, Godoy Cruz got 15 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Guillermo Ortiz (23') and Salomón Rodríguez (36') scored for Godoy Cruz.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Defensa y Justicia have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Defensa y Justicia have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals on the way. We will have to find out whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Defensa y Justicia:

• haven't lost in the league to Vélez Sarsfield in their last 3 matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 13 home league matches. An amazing run.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league games.

Vélez Sarsfield

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Vélez Sarsfield head into the match following a 2-0 Superliga win against Rosario Central in their previous outing.

In that match, Vélez Sarsfield managed 52% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Vélez Sarsfield, goals were scored by Luca Orellano (6') and Damián Fernández (83'). At the other end, Rosario Central had 10 shots at goal with 5 on target.

Alexander Medina's Vélez Sarsfield have turned their attacks into goals a total of 10 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period comes to 6.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings going back to 13/11/2016, there has been little between the sides with Defensa y Justicia winning 2 of those games, Vélez Sarsfield 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

A sum of 12 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Halcón and 6 created by El Fortín. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The last league match between these clubs was Superliga match day 3 on 28/07/2021 when it finished Vélez Sarsfield 0-0 Defensa y Justicia.

That day, Vélez Sarsfield managed 72% possession and 12 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

For their opponents, Defensa y Justicia got 9 shots at goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Leandro Rey Hilfer.

📋 Team News: Defensa y Justicia

The Defensa y Justicia boss Sebastián Beccacece will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns at all before this match owing to a fully injury-free squad available to choose from.

In all likelihood, Halcón could use a 4-2-3-1 system with Ezequiel Unsain, Nicolás Tripichio, Nazareno Colombo, Tomas Cardona, Alexis Soto, Kevin Gutiérrez, Gabriel Hachen, Walter Bou, Francisco Pizzini, Carlos Rotondi and Lucas Albertengo.

📋 Team News: Vélez Sarsfield

Vélez Sarsfield boss Alexander Medina has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Diego Godín (Knock) and Lautaro Giannetti (Ruptured cruciate ligament) can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, El Fortín seem likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system, starting Lucas Hoyos, Leonardo Jara, Damian Fernandez, Valentin Gomez, Francisco Ortega, Maximo Perrone, Nicolás Garayalde, Luca Orellano, Lucas Pratto, Lucas Janson and Abiel Osorio.

⚡ Prediction

In our view, Vélez Sarsfield could find themselves struggling to find the net against this Defensa y Justicia lineup who should emerge victorious.

Therefore, we predict a good battle with a 1-0 advantage for Defensa y Justicia after 90 minutes.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

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Renata Leite, 23:20 20/06/2022