Delightful dogfight as daring Atlético Tucumán duel with determined Gimnasia La Plata

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Competition: Argentina Superliga
Competition: Wed 12.Jul
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Monumental Presidente José Fierro (32700 seats)

Atlético Tucumán hope to fill the stadium for this match even though the season has been strenuous up to now with 27 points and a 19th position in the Superliga table. Guests Gimnasia La Plata have 18th place with 28 pts.

Insights:
  • Atlético Tucumán have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Gimnasia La Plata have the most conceded goals (22) away in Superliga

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Gimnasia La Plata, who are travelling more than 1300 kilometers to play this game.

Gimnasia La Plata could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Superliga game only four sleeps ago.

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Atlético Tucumán form and stats

When playing at home in the Superliga, Atlético Tucumán have managed 4 wins, 4 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 11 games. It’s been three wins in a row for Atlético Tucumán here at Estadio Monumental Presidente José Fierro, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Atlético Tucumán are confident in defense, having played 187 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Happy days for Atlético in their previous game, a fixture away at Huracan (placed 27th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Marchiori loved the game against Huracan. With a stunning seven saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 1-0 victory. Marchiori, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 8.53 out of 10 in that game. Marchiori topped it up with a clean sheet.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Union Santa Fe in a game that was won 1-0.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Atlético Tucumán have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 6 and lost 0.

Atlético Tucumán are traveling soon after this match as the Superliga match at Newell's Old Boys awaits in four days.

Atlético has scored 12 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Atlético Tucumán have conceded 13 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Gimnasia La Plata form and stats

Gimnasia La Plata have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Superliga, after 2-3-7 (12 played). Gimnasia La Plata have had a generous will to share for some time now, running a streak of three draws in a row.

Gimnasia La Plata delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Independiente (placed 21st) in their previous fixture. Defender Morales was the best team player with a rating of 7.4. Morales won 8 of 11 duels.

Before that, Gimnasia travelled to Newell's Old Boys and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.

Gimnasia La Plata are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 7 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 13 matches.

Lacking goals? 9 of this club's latest 10 league rounds have contained two or less goals.

A new game in only four days for Gimnasia La Plata, the Superliga home match versus Boca Juniors. Busy days.

The visitors have scored 9 goals from 12 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Gimnasia's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 22 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Atlético Tucumán four wins, one draw and Gimnasia La Plata five victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Atlético TucumánM. Coronel
M. Coronel
7 goals
Gimnasia La PlataC. Tarragona
C. Tarragona
5 goals
Atlético TucumánM. Estigarribia
M. Estigarribia
4 goals

Atlético Tucumán missing players

Gimnasia La Plata missing players

Atlético Tucumán Gimnasia La Plata
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 4 12 23
6 4 0 Won W 1 2 7
9 4 1 Drew D 1 3 7
8 3 1 Lost L 2 7 9
20 12 2 Scored S 2 9 20
27 13 3 Conceded C 5 22 30
87% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 83% 83%
61% 73% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 65%
35% 36% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 50% 35%
17% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 42% 26%
4% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
52% 64% 100% BTTS BTTS 25% 33% 35%
30% 27% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 25% 35%
30% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 58% 48%
 
4.2 4.5 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 5.1 5.5
4.7 4.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 6.8 5.3
2.5 2.5 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.2 2.3
3 3 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
12.6 12.8 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 11.8 12.6
3.5 4.2 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.3 3.9
25% 26% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 15% 22% 22%
 
14.3 12.5 14.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12.2 15.6 13
4.2 4 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.2 5.2 4.2
Key stats in Superliga this season:
  • Atlético Tucumán have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Atlético Tucumán haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Gimnasia La Plata have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Gimnasia La Plata have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Gimnasia La Plata have the most conceded goals (22) away in Superliga
  • Gimnasia La Plata have the the worst goal difference (-13) away in Superliga

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 River Plate 23 17 2 4 42 15 11 10 0 1 21 5 12 7 2 3 21 10 27 53
2 Talleres Cordoba 23 13 5 5 38 20 12 7 2 3 16 8 11 6 3 2 22 12 18 44
3 San Lorenzo 23 11 9 3 22 9 12 8 4 0 12 0 11 3 5 3 10 9 13 42
4 Lanus 23 11 7 5 31 21 11 8 1 2 16 7 12 3 6 3 15 14 10 40
5 Defensa y Justicia 23 11 6 6 29 17 12 6 4 2 16 9 11 5 2 4 13 8 12 39
6 Estudiantes 23 10 8 5 27 19 12 6 4 2 18 10 11 4 4 3 9 9 8 38
7 Rosario Central 23 9 9 5 30 25 12 8 4 0 22 8 11 1 5 5 8 17 5 36
8 Godoy Cruz 23 10 6 7 30 25 11 7 3 1 21 9 12 3 3 6 9 16 5 36
9 Belgrano 23 10 4 9 20 21 11 6 3 2 12 7 12 4 1 7 8 14 -1 34
10 Argentinos Juniors 23 9 6 8 26 19 11 6 3 2 21 10 12 3 3 6 5 9 7 33
11 Boca Juniors 23 9 5 9 25 22 12 6 3 3 16 9 11 3 2 6 9 13 3 32
12 Racing Club 23 8 7 8 31 31 12 5 4 3 16 15 11 3 3 5 15 16 0 31
13 Newell's Old Boys 23 7 9 7 20 21 11 6 4 1 12 4 12 1 5 6 8 17 -1 30
14 Barracas Central 23 7 9 7 24 28 12 5 4 3 12 11 11 2 5 4 12 17 -4 30
15 Platense 23 8 5 10 24 27 12 5 4 3 14 11 11 3 1 7 10 16 -3 29
16 Central Cordoba SdE 23 7 8 8 19 22 12 5 2 5 9 8 11 2 6 3 10 14 -3 29
17 Sarmiento 23 7 7 9 22 21 11 4 3 4 15 12 12 3 4 5 7 9 1 28
18 Gimnasia La Plata 23 7 7 9 20 30 11 5 4 2 11 8 12 2 3 7 9 22 -10 28
19 Atlético Tucumán 23 6 9 8 20 27 11 4 4 3 12 13 12 2 5 5 8 14 -7 27
20 Instituto 23 6 8 9 18 29 12 4 6 2 9 9 11 2 2 7 9 20 -11 26
21 Independiente 23 5 10 8 22 27 11 4 4 3 15 13 12 1 6 5 7 14 -5 25
22 Tigre 23 6 7 10 21 27 11 4 3 4 12 13 12 2 4 6 9 14 -6 25
23 Velez Sarsfield 23 5 9 9 22 24 12 3 7 2 15 10 11 2 2 7 7 14 -2 24
24 Colon 23 4 12 7 19 27 12 3 6 3 13 16 11 1 6 4 6 11 -8 24
25 Union Santa Fe 23 5 9 9 17 25 11 3 4 4 10 12 12 2 5 5 7 13 -8 24
26 Banfield 23 6 6 11 17 30 12 4 4 4 7 11 11 2 2 7 10 19 -13 24
27 Huracan 23 4 7 12 16 27 11 3 4 4 9 12 12 1 3 8 7 15 -11 19
28 Arsenal de Sarandi 23 5 2 16 16 32 11 4 1 6 11 15 12 1 1 10 5 17 -16 17

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The Superliga Argentina, also referred to as the Primera División, is the premier football division in Argentina. It currently holds 26 teams who play 25 fixtures each to form a final league table. The season runs from August to May. Argentina was the first country outside the United Kingdom to create a football league, in 1891.