River Plate vs Unión de Santa Fe Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

River Plate

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River Plate are hoping to win again following the 0-2 Copa Libertadores victory over Argentinos Juniors.

Los Millonarios have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, but they have also managed to hit the back of the net themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Los Millonarios have seen their goal breached in 5 of them as well as scoring in 6 of those games.

Ahead of this meeting, River Plate have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.

Unión de Santa Fe

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In their previous game, Unión de Santa Fe drew 1-1 in the Superliga match with Boca Juniors.

In that match, Unión de Santa Fe had 55% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for Unión de Santa Fe was Fernando Márquez (81'). Boca Juniors got 5 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Agustín Obando (10') was the scorer for Boca Juniors.

Over the course of 5 of the prior six clashes involving Unión de Santa Fe, a comparatively low number of goals have been struck between them and their opposition. The overall average number of goals per game in that spell comes to a meagre 1.5, with the average goals for El Tatengue being 0.67. Having said that, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend might continue on in this next game.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 19/05/2013 shows us that River Plate have won 2 of them & Unión de Santa Fe 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 3.

A combined total of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 9 of them from Los Millonarios and 7 created by El Tatengue. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league encounter between these clubs was Superliga match day 19 on 10/02/2020 when it ended Unión de Santa Fe 1-2 River Plate.

On that occasion, Unión de Santa Fe had 34% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer was Walter Bou (47').

For their opponents, River Plate had 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Ignacio Fernández (55') and Robert Rojas (65') scored.

The referee was Facundo Tello.

ℹ️ Team News: River Plate

River Plate manager Marcelo Gallardo will be grateful to have no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game with a completely injury-free group available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Unión de Santa Fe

Thanks to a completely healthy group available to select from, Unión de Santa Fe manager Juan Azconzábal has no fitness concerns to speak of before this game.

✨ Prediction

We feel that River Plate look likely to score more than once against Unión de Santa Fe, who may well struggle to score.

Therefore, we are anticipating a controlled 2-0 margin for River Plate at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 23:16 20/07/2021