📊 Form Guide

River Plate

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River Plate will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 2-1 Torneo Apertura victory versus Boca Juniors.

In that game, River Plate managed 45% possession and 15 shots on goal with 9 on target. For River Plate, the scorers were Franco Mastantuono (25') and Sebastián Driussi (44'). At the other end, Boca Juniors had 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Miguel Ángel Merentiel (38') was the scorer for Boca Juniors.

Over their past 6 fixtures, Marcelo Gallardo's River Plate have scored 9 times giving them an average number of goals scored per match of 1.5.

Vélez Sarsfield

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Vélez Sarsfield come into this meeting following on from a 1-0 Torneo Apertura win versus Gimna ' Plata in their previous outing.

In that match, Vélez Sarsfield managed 45% possession and 7 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer for Vélez Sarsfield was Braian Romero (76'). For their opponents, Gimnasia y Esgrima got 14 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

Guillermo Barros Schelotto's Vélez Sarsfield have turned their attacks into goals a total of 8 times throughout their previous 6 matches. The total of goals that they have conceded during those same clashes equals 5.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels dating back to 07/07/2022, there has been little between the sides with River Plate winning 1 of those games, Vélez Sarsfield 1 and 4 being drawn in regulation time.

A combined total of 17 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 10 for Los Millonarios and 7 created by El Fortín. The average goals per game has been 2.83.

The previous league meeting between the two was Primera División match day 18 on 19/10/2024 when the final score was River Plate 1-1 Vélez Sarsfield.

That time, River Plate had 67% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Miguel Borja (49').

For their opponents, Vélez Sarsfield got 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Braian Romero (26') scored.

The match was refereed by Yael Falcón.

📋 Team News: River Plate

The River Plate boss Marcelo Gallardo has no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game with a completely injury-free squad available for selection.

We are thinking that Los Millonarios may well use the 4-3-1-2 formation in the match with Franco Armani, Fabricio Bustos, L. Gonzalez Pirez, German Pezzella, Marcos Acuna, Giuliano Galoppo, Enzo Pérez, Kevin Castaño, Franco Mastantuono, Sebastián Driussi and Facundo Colidio.

📰 Team News: Vélez Sarsfield

Owing to a completely injury-free group to choose from, the Vélez Sarsfield manager Guillermo Barros Schelotto doesn’t have any fitness worries at all ahead of this clash.

We’re of the thinking that El Fortín seem most likely to utilise a 4-3-3 system, settling for Tomás Marchiori, Isaías Andrada, Damian Fernandez, Valentin Gomez, Elias Gomez, Christian Ordoñez, Claudio Baeza, Agustin Bouzat, Maher Carrizo, Braian Romero and Alvaro Montoro.

💭 Prediction

Unfortunately for them, Vélez Sarsfield may well find it beyond them to break down a River Plate outfit who have all the attributes to win very easily indeed.

We’re therefore predicting an extremely comfortable 4-0 margin at the minimum for River Plate at full-time.

Lucas Pereira, 23:10 04/05/2025