📊 Form Guide

Sarmiento

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Sarmiento enter this game following on from a 0-0 Torneo Apertura draw against Gimna ' Plata.

In that game, Sarmiento managed 44% possession and 11 shots at goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, Gimnasia y Esgrima had 21 shots on goal with 3 on target.

Over their past six fixtures, Sarmiento have hit the target a total of 5 times, an average number of goals scored per match of 0.83.

River Plate

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River Plate come into this match following on from a 0-1 Copa Libertadores win with the downing of Universitario Deportes in their most recent match.

In that game, River Plate had 58% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for River Plate was Paulo Díaz (17'). On the other side, Universitario Deportes got 6 shots at goal with 2 on target.

Over the course of 5 of the prior six games featuring River Plate, a relatively low number of goals have been hit between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game during that spell works out to a mere 1.5, with the average goals for Los Millonarios equalling 0.83. Still, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend shall continue on here in this game.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 23/04/2017 shows that Sarmiento have won 1 of these games & River Plate 4, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between them in these games, with 4 from Verde and 14 created by Los Millonarios. The average goals per game has been 3.

The last league meeting featuring the two was Primera División match day 8 on 28/07/2024 which finished with the scoreline of River Plate 1-0 Sarmiento.

On that occasion, River Plate had 80% possession and 29 shots at goal with 9 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Franco Mastantuono (87').

For their opponents, Sarmiento got 2 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.

The referee was Nazareno Arasa.

ℹ️ Team News: Sarmiento

The Sarmiento manager will be grateful to have no fitness worries at all before this clash with a fully healthy group available for selection.

📋 Team News: River Plate

Due to a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the River Plate manager Marcelo Gallardo doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of before this clash.

✨ Prediction

Our thinking is that Sarmiento will have to work hard as a team to score goals against this River Plate outfit who should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We’re therefore predicting a very competitive game with a 0-1 winning margin for River Plate at the end of this one.

Little in this one.

Victor Martins, 23:15 05/04/2025