📊 Form Guide

Sarmiento

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Sarmiento will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-0 Copa de la Liga Profesional loss in their previous game against San Lorenzo.

In that match, Sarmiento had 47% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 4 on target. At the other end, San Lorenzo had 18 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Cristian Ferreira (6') was the scorer for San Lorenzo.

Over their preceding six fixtures, Israel Damonte's Sarmiento have managed to score a combined total of 6 times giving them an average number of goals scored per match of 1.

Newell´s Old Boys

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Last time out, Newell´s Old Boys drew 0-0 in the Copa de la Liga Profesional tie with Platense.

In that game, Newell´s Old Boys managed 64% possession and 13 shots at goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Platense got 6 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

For 5 of the prior 6 games involving Newell´s Old Boys, a notably low volume of goals have been hit between them and their opponents. The overall average goals scored per game in that spell works out to a mere 1.67, with the number of goals averaged by La Lepra equalling 0.67.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head clashes dating back to 10/05/2021 shows that Sarmiento have won 3 of these and Newell´s Old Boys 0, with the tally of draws standing at 3.

A combined sum of 11 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 7 of them from Verde and 4 created by La Lepra. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league contest featuring these sides was Copa de la Liga Profesional match day 12 on 06/11/2023 when it finished Newell´s Old Boys 0-1 Sarmiento.

That time, Newell´s Old Boys had 63% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 on target.

For their opponents, Sarmiento had 8 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Juan Cruz Kaprof (67') scored.

The match was refereed by Hernán Mastrángelo.

ℹ️ Team News: Sarmiento

Iván Morales (unknown injury) and Federico Paradela (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be taking part for Sarmiento gaffer Israel Damonte.

🗞️ Team News: Newell´s Old Boys

Due to a fully injury-free squad ready to go, the Newell´s Old Boys boss Mauricio Larriera doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all coming into this match.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Sarmiento will have to work hard as a team to hit the back of the net against this Newell´s Old Boys lineup who will likely win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re therefore expecting a very competitive game with a 0-1 victory for Newell´s Old Boys after 90 minutes.

Looking forward to watching this one unfold.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 18:00 31/03/2024