Superliga duel: Close contest expected between Argentinos Juniors and Colón

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Competition: Argentina Superliga
Competition: Thu 21.October
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Diego Armando Maradona (25000 seats)

High profile Colón visit Argentinos Juniors after their 1-0-result vs Talleres Cordoba. Check out our complete match preview!

Insights:
  • Argentinos Juniors have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Colón have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Argentinos Juniors form and stats

The story so far in the Superliga for Argentinos Juniors at their home stadium (Estadio Diego Armando Maradona) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.

The fans are hoping that Argentinos will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 3-4 away loss in the Superliga game against Atlético Tucumán (placed 19th). As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Some supporters pointed their nail-bitten fingers at Gabriel Ávalos for missing a penalty kick versus Atlético Tucumán in the 17th minute. It's possible that a goal in that situation would have changed the outcome. The forward Nicolás Reniero outshone all teammates in that game and was awarded a match rating of 7.7 out of 10. Reniero scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that, Argentinos Juniors had a Copa Argentina home game versus San Telmo which ended with a victory 2-1.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Argentinos have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 17 matches with the results: Won nine, drawn three and lost five.

Argentinos Juniors are traveling soon after this match as the Superliga match at River Plate awaits in four days.

Argentinos Juniors are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 7 games. Argentinos have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Colón form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Superliga.

Colón won their last game, 1-0 versus Talleres Cordoba played at home. Defender Paolo Goltz was the best team player with a rating of 7.34. Goltz won 8 of 13 duels.

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at San Lorenzo.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Colón in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Colón, one draw and five defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as Colón are hosting Estudiantes in the Superliga only three days away.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Colón as they have only managed to score 6 times from 8 away games in the league. 10 goals have been conceded by Colón in these games.

Head 2 Head

Colón - Argentinos 0-0 was the outcome when these two sides last did battle, also in this season. Previous ten meetings featuring these squads: Argentinos Juniors won three, Colón were winners in five and we saw two draws. zero games with more than 2,5 goals, ten matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

ColónA. Castro
A. Castro
6 goals
ColónF. Farías
F. Farías
5 goals
ArgentinosM. Coronel
M. Coronel
4 goals

Argentinos Juniors missing players

Colón missing players

Argentinos Juniors Colón
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
29 14 4 Played P 5 15 32
10 6 1 Won W 2 8 16
10 4 0 Drew D 1 2 10
9 4 3 Lost L 2 5 6
29 16 3 Scored S 7 22 42
25 12 6 Conceded C 7 16 27
86% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 88%
59% 79% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 69%
17% 14% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 60% 41%
10% 7% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 13% 12%
7% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 6%
38% 36% 25% BTTS BTTS 60% 40% 41%
41% 43% 25% Clean Sheets C S 20% 40% 50%
34% 29% 50% Failed to Score F T 20% 27% 22%
 
5 6.2 6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 3.9 4.8
3.7 3.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 5.9 4.8
2.3 2 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.3 2.3
3 3 0 Red cards R C 1 4 7
 
9.7 11.2 10 Shots (avg) S ( 9.6 9.8 10.4
3.7 5 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.4 4.1 4
28% 25% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 41% 36% 33%
Key stats in Superliga this season:
  • Argentinos Juniors have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Colón have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Colón have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  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 16 11 3 2 32 12 9 6 2 1 17 6 7 5 1 1 15 6 20 36
2 Talleres Cordoba 16 10 2 4 24 14 7 6 1 0 14 2 9 4 1 4 10 12 10 32
3 Boca Juniors 16 7 6 3 19 12 7 3 3 1 7 5 9 4 3 2 12 7 7 27
4 Lanús 16 8 3 5 27 25 9 4 3 2 15 12 7 4 0 3 12 13 2 27
5 Estudiantes 16 7 5 4 25 17 7 3 3 1 11 5 9 4 2 3 14 12 8 26
6 Colón 16 7 5 4 13 16 8 4 3 1 7 6 8 3 2 3 6 10 -3 26
7 Velez Sarsfield 16 6 7 3 22 12 9 4 4 1 18 7 7 2 3 2 4 5 10 25
8 Defensa y Justicia 16 6 6 4 20 13 8 5 2 1 16 8 8 1 4 3 4 5 7 24
9 Independiente 16 6 6 4 17 15 8 3 3 2 8 6 8 3 3 2 9 9 2 24
10 Godoy Cruz 16 6 5 5 25 20 9 3 4 2 14 10 7 3 1 3 11 10 5 23
11 Racing Club 16 5 7 4 13 9 8 2 4 2 5 4 8 3 3 2 8 5 4 22
12 Huracan 16 5 7 4 12 12 9 3 3 3 7 8 7 2 4 1 5 4 0 22
13 Argentinos Juniors 16 5 6 5 15 14 7 3 2 2 8 6 9 2 4 3 7 8 1 21
14 Gimnasia La Plata 16 5 6 5 13 16 9 4 4 1 7 4 7 1 2 4 6 12 -3 21
15 Union Santa Fe 16 6 3 7 19 23 8 3 1 4 10 8 8 3 2 3 9 15 -4 21
16 Rosario Central 16 6 2 8 23 23 8 4 0 4 12 9 8 2 2 4 11 14 0 20
17 Platense 16 4 7 5 18 19 7 1 4 2 5 7 9 3 3 3 13 12 -1 19
18 Sarmiento 16 5 4 7 18 20 9 4 1 4 12 10 7 1 3 3 6 10 -2 19
19 Atlético Tucumán 16 5 4 7 16 23 8 3 4 1 10 7 8 2 0 6 6 16 -7 19
20 San Lorenzo 16 4 5 7 14 20 7 3 2 2 9 6 9 1 3 5 5 14 -6 17
21 Newell's Old Boys 16 4 4 8 17 24 8 3 1 4 12 14 8 1 3 4 5 10 -7 16
22 Aldosivi 16 5 1 10 17 29 9 3 0 6 10 16 7 2 1 4 7 13 -12 16
23 Banfield 16 2 9 5 11 15 7 1 2 4 6 9 9 1 7 1 5 6 -4 15
24 Patronato 16 3 6 7 13 19 7 2 3 2 6 5 9 1 3 5 7 14 -6 15
25 Arsenal de Sarandi 16 2 7 7 6 20 8 2 5 1 5 6 8 0 2 6 1 14 -14 13
26 Central Cordoba SdE 16 2 6 8 15 22 8 2 2 4 12 15 8 0 4 4 3 7 -7 12

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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.