Sarmiento vs River Plate Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Sarmiento

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Sarmiento will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 1-0 Superliga loss in their previous game against Racing Club.

In that game, Sarmiento managed 30% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Racing Club got 15 shots on goal with 3 on target. Matías Rojas (45') was the scorer for Racing Club.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Sarmiento have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Sarmiento have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 9 goals along the way.

River Plate

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River Plate come into this match following a 3-0 Superliga win to defeat Godoy Cruz in their previous match.

In that game, River Plate had 67% possession and 16 shots on goal with 5 on target. For River Plate, the goals were scored by Lucas Beltrán (29', 61') and Ezequiel Barco (79'). Godoy Cruz had 6 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

In their previous half-dozen clashes, River Plate have bagged a total of 10 goals. River Plate have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, their defenders have seen 5 goals scored by their opponents. Such a trend won’t necessarily follow through into this next game, though.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 16/02/2015 tells us that Sarmiento have won 1 of these games and River Plate 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 2.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 24 in all at an average of 4 goals per match.

The previous league clash between the two was Superliga match day 11 on 31/07/2022 and the score finished River Plate 1-2 Sarmiento.

In that game, River Plate had 82% possession and 27 shots at goal with 4 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Emanuel Mammana (67').

Sarmiento had 5 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Guido Mainero (31') and Federico Andueza (44') scored.

The match was refereed by Hernán Mastrángelo.

📰 Team News: Sarmiento

Guido Mainero (Ruptured ligaments), José Mauri (Ruptured ligaments), Federico Paradela (Ruptured cruciate ligament) and Yair Arismendi (Ruptured cruciate ligament) won’t be playing for Sarmiento manager Israel Damonte.

In all likelihood, Verde should employ a 4-4-2 formation this time, utilising Sebastian Meza, Gonzalo Bettini, Manuel Garcia, J. M. Insaurralde, Gabriel Diaz, Sergio Quiroga, Emiliano Mendez, Fernando Martinez, David Gallardo, Luciano Gondou and Javier Fabian Toledo.

🗞️ Team News: River Plate

River Plate boss Martín Demichelis has multiple availability issues to deal with. Matías Suárez (Knee Injury), Nicolás de la Cruz (Edema in the knee), Matías Kranevitter (Ankle Fracture), David Martínez (Patella problems) and Bruno Zuculini (Partial damage to the cruciate ligament) will miss out on this game.

There’s a good chance that Los Millonarios might make use of a 4-3-3 formation, settling for Franco Armani, Milton Casco, L. Gonzalez Pirez, Paulo Diaz, Enzo Hernan Diaz, Rodrigo Aliendro, Enzo Perez, Ignacio Fernandez, Jose Paradela, Lucas Beltran and Ezequiel Barco.

💡 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Sarmiento could well find it tough to get anything against this River Plate side who will likely score at least once to gain the upper hand.

We’re therefore anticipating a very even contest with a 0-1 winning score for River Plate after 90 minutes.

Looking forward to this.

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Andre Moura, 01:44 16/03/2023