Racing Club vs Newell´s Old Boys Live Stream, Predictions (May 02)

📊 Form Guide

Racing Club

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Racing Club will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 1-2 Torneo Apertura victory against Defensa y Justicia.

In that match, Racing Club managed 54% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. For Racing Club, the goalscorers were Maximiliano Salas (72') and Gastón Martirena (87'). At the other end, Defensa y Justicia got 17 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Francisco González (54') scored for Defensa y Justicia.

Racing Club haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 11 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5. Regardless, we must now wait to see if that trend will be sustained in this match or not.

Newell´s Old Boys

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Newell´s Old Boys come into this match following a 2-0 Torneo Apertura win with the downing of Huracán in their last outing.

In that game, Newell´s Old Boys managed 33% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 on target. For Newell´s Old Boys, the goals were scored by Valentino Acuña (43') and Luciano Lollo (81'). For their opponents, Huracan got 4 shots on goal with 0 of them on target.

A sequence of effective displays from the Newell´s Old Boys defenders has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 2 from their past 6 fixtures overall. In that time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 8.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head meetings dating back to 24/04/2022 tells us that Racing Club have won 3 of them & Newell´s Old Boys 1, with the tally of draws standing at 2.

A combined sum of 9 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 of them for La Academia and 2 being from La Lepra. That is an average goals per game value of 1.5.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was Primera División match day 11 on 17/08/2024 and the score finished Newell´s Old Boys 0-1 Racing Club.

On that day, Newell´s Old Boys managed 50% possession and 14 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

On the other side, Racing Club got 9 shots on goal with 1 on target. Roger Martínez (30') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Dario Herrera.

📋 Team News: Racing Club

The Racing Club boss Gustavo Costas will be happy not to have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match thanks to a completely injury-free squad ready to go.

It seems likely that La Academia may well use a 3-4-2-1 system for this game, utilising Gabriel Arias, Marco Di Cesare, Santiago Sosa, Nazareno Colombo, Facundo Mura, Juan Ignacio Nardoni, Agustin Almendra, Gabriel Rojas, Luciano Vietto, Maximiliano Salas and Adrian Martinez.

🗞️ Team News: Newell´s Old Boys

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad available to select from, the Newell´s Old Boys boss doesn’t have any fitness worries at all coming into this game.

There’s a good chance that La Lepra seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation using Keylor Navas, Alejo Montero, Saúl Salcedo, Víctor Cuesta, Angelo Martino, Tomás Jacob, Ever Banega, Luciano Herrera, Gonzalo Maroni, Mateo Silvetti and Carlos González.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Newell´s Old Boys and Racing Club may both find scoring difficult here.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore seeing a tight encounter, finishing with a 0-0 draw when all is said and done.

📖 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Checking on the latest odds for this match in the full-time result market, a victory for Racing Club is best priced at 2, a wager on a draw is 3.6 & taking a punt on the winning team to be Newell´s Old Boys gets you 3.7. They’re the best of the prices being offered right now.

Peter Guest, 07:01 02/05/2025