A short look at the Superliga table hint of an advantage to Belgrano when they come to Instituto. Even so; let's wait for the game before we elect a winner!
- Instituto have the most conceded goals in the second half (20) in Superliga
- Belgrano have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Superliga
These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Instituto form and stats
The story so far in the Superliga for Instituto at their home stadium (Estadio Juan Domingo Perón) is 3 wins, 6 draws and 2 defeats. Two draws in a row at home now for Instituto.
Instituto are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-3 away versus River Plate. Instituto's goalkeeper Roffo was extremely busy against River Plate, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning six saves. The attacking player Rodríguez was announced as "man of the match" for Instituto with the rating of 7.23/10. Rodríguez scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Before that, Instituto drew at home versus Racing Club.This is expected to be a close game, with Instituto perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Instituto as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Instituto has won 6 of these, drawn 6 and lost 1.
Trench warfare? Looking at this team's last 12 league games, 9 have seen two goals or less.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Huracan are coming to town in two days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Instituto here at Estadio Juan Domingo Perón in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (8 from 11 games). From these home matches, Instituto have conceded only 9 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Belgrano form and stats
4 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses. That’s the product of Belgrano playing as the away team in the Superliga this season. Bitter travels for Belgrano as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Gimnasia La Plata match.
The followers enjoyed Belgrano's previous match versus Banfield (placed 27th), a 3-1 win played at home. The attacker Vegetti got a match rating of 8.45 in that game. Vegetti scored two goals and hit two key passes.
A 0-2 defeat away at Defensa y Justicia before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Belgrano in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Belgrano, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
A tale of few goals? 10 of this club's last 11 league matches have had two or less goals.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Claypole in just two days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Belgrano as they have only managed to score 8 times from 11 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Belgrano have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Belgrano have not lost in the last 10 fixtures (4-6-0) facing Instituto.The matches between these sides have had a tendency to be "violent", having seen 14 red cards from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Vegetti Pfaffen 13 goals |  A. Martínez 7 goals | S. Rodríguez 3 goals |
Instituto missing players
Belgrano missing players
| Instituto | Belgrano | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 11 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 21 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 17 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 8 | 20 |
| 29 | 9 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 13 | 18 |
| 86% | 73% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 86% |
| 67% | 55% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 64% | 62% |
| 33% | 18% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 27% | 24% |
| 24% | 9% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 9% | 10% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 36% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 9% | 19% |
| 29% | 45% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 45% | 52% |
| 48% | 45% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 55% | 43% |
| 5.1 | 5.7 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.1 |
| 4.4 | 2.9 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 6 | 5.6 |
| 2.5 | 2.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 13 | 15 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.3 | 10.9 | 10.8 |
| 3.5 | 3.4 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
| 23% | 22% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 22% | 28% |
| 12.6 | 8.9 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.7 | 13.6 | 13.4 |
| 5.3 | 3.8 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 5.1 | 4.2 |
- Belgrano have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Belgrano have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Superliga
- Instituto have the most conceded goals in the second half (20) 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 | 21 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 39 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 26 | 50 |
| 2 | Talleres Cordoba | 21 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 17 | 40 |
| 3 | San Lorenzo | 21 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 38 |
| 4 | Lanus | 21 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 37 |
| 5 | Estudiantes | 21 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 36 |
| 6 | Rosario Central | 21 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 30 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 35 |
| 7 | Belgrano | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 34 |
| 8 | Defensa y Justicia | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 33 |
| 9 | Argentinos Juniors | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 26 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 32 |
| 10 | Godoy Cruz | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 27 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 32 |
| 11 | Newell's Old Boys | 21 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 29 |
| 12 | Platense | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 14 | -1 | 29 |
| 13 | Sarmiento | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 22 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 28 |
| 14 | Boca Juniors | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 28 |
| 15 | Racing Club | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -4 | 27 |
| 16 | Gimnasia La Plata | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 20 | -10 | 26 |
| 17 | Tigre | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | -4 | 25 |
| 18 | Central Cordoba SdE | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -5 | 25 |
| 19 | Colon | 21 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 24 |
| 20 | Barracas Central | 21 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -7 | 24 |
| 21 | Union Santa Fe | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 23 |
| 22 | Instituto | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 20 | -12 | 22 |
| 23 | Independiente | 21 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -6 | 21 |
| 24 | Atletico Tucuman | 21 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 18 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -9 | 21 |
| 25 | Huracan | 21 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -9 | 19 |
| 26 | Velez Sarsfield | 21 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 14 | -4 | 18 |
| 27 | Banfield | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 18 | -15 | 18 |
| 28 | Arsenal de Sarandi | 21 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 16 | -14 | 17 |
