Racing Club vs Vélez Sarsfield Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Racing Club

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Racing Club will be looking for an improved result here after a 2-0 Superliga defeat in their last game at the hands of Godoy Cruz.

Salomón Rodríguez (53', 70') scored for Godoy Cruz.

Their latest results show that much solidity has been shown by the Racing Club rearguard. Racing Club have kept it tight, resulting in the tally of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper over the course of their previous six games standing at 3. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, though.

Analysis of their past results shows that Racing Club:

• have not lost a league tie with Vélez Sarsfield in their last 8 games. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.
• have not beaten Vélez Sarsfield in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches at home.

Vélez Sarsfield

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Platense in Superliga competition, Vélez Sarsfield will be hoping to turn things around here.

Iván Gómez (74') was the scorer for Platense.

The numbers tell their own story, and Vélez Sarsfield have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 6 goals in total. Defensively, Vélez Sarsfield certainly have room for improvement.

Leading up to this clash, Vélez Sarsfield:

• have not won against Racing Club when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• are without a win away from home in their last 5 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings going back to 05/03/2018 shows that Racing Club have won 2 of these games & Vélez Sarsfield 1, with the number of drawn games being 3.

A combined total of 12 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 of them for La Academia and 5 being from El Fortín. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Superliga match day 1 on 17/07/2021 when the final score was Vélez Sarsfield 0-0 Racing Club.

That day, Vélez Sarsfield had 51% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

For their opponents, Racing Club got 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Germán Delfino.

🗞️ Team News: Racing Club

Gabriel Hauche (Fractured Foot), Gabriel Arias (Ruptured cruciate ligament) and Mauricio Martínez (Ruptured cruciate ligament) will not be able to play for Racing Club gaffer Fernando Gago.

📋 Team News: Vélez Sarsfield

Due to a mostly healthy squad, there’s only the lone fitness issue for the Vélez Sarsfield gaffer Alexander Medina to be concerned with. Lautaro Giannetti (Ruptured cruciate ligament) won’t be playing here.

✨ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Vélez Sarsfield will likely create enough chances to put a goal past this Racing Club lineup, although that probably shouldn’t be enough to avoid a loss.

Our selection here is for a very close game with a 2-1 advantage for Racing Club at the end of this one. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Andre Moura, 23:06 12/06/2022