Belgrano - Newell's Old Boys: Small difference between teams in Superliga clash

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Competition: Argentina Superliga
Competition: Sat 22.April
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Julio César Villagra (30500 seats)

The league table shows that 3 points separate the pair of combatants in this Superliga match. Belgrano have both the points- and home ground advantage.

Insights:
  • Newell's Old Boys have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Superliga

Newell's Old Boys could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Copa Sudamericana game only four sleeps ago.

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Belgrano form and stats

Belgrano have collected 8 points from their Superliga home games so far after 2-2-1.

Belgrano are confident in defense, having played 374 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

A good away victory last time out for Belgrano, who won 2-0 against Gimnasia La Plata (placed 24th). The versatile forward Vegetti bested all the other footballers in that fixture and received a match rating of 8.12 out of 10. Vegetti scored two goals.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Huracan in a game that was won 2-0.

It should be considered that a peek at the 10 latest league games shows that 9 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored).

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Independiente Rivadavia are coming to town in four days.

Belgrano aren't scoring a lot here at Estadio Julio César Villagra in the league, with only {4 goals} from 5 games. Belgrano are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Julio César Villagra in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 5 matches.

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Newell's Old Boys form and stats

Newell's Old Boys have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Superliga, after 1-2-3 (6 played).

The club members enjoyed Newell's Old Boys's previous match versus Blooming, a Copa Sudamericana win (3-0) played at home.

A 0-1 loss hosting River Plate before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Newell's Old Boys in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Newell's, 3 draws and 10 defeats.

Lacking goals? 9 of this club's last 11 league fixtures have contained zero, one or two goals.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Newell's Old Boys as they have only managed to score 5 times from 6 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Newell's have conceded 10 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

Belgrano have not lost in the last 4 games (3-1-0) against Newell's Old Boys.

The matches between these sides have had a tendency to be hot-tempered, having seen 3 sending-offs from the last six duels.

Top Goalscorers

BelgranoP. Vegetti Pfaffen
P. Vegetti Pfaffen
7 goals
BelgranoU. Sánchez
U. Sánchez
2 goals
Newell's Old BoysV. Velázquez Ramos
V. Velázquez Ramos
2 goals

Belgrano missing players

Newell's Old Boys missing players

Belgrano Newell's Old Boys
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 5 2 Played P 2 6 12
6 2 0 Won W 1 1 5
3 2 1 Drew D 0 2 3
3 1 1 Lost L 1 3 4
12 4 0 Scored S 1 5 10
9 3 2 Conceded C 1 10 11
75% 60% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
58% 60% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 42%
33% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 25%
8% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 17%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
17% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 25%
67% 60% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 17% 50%
42% 60% 100% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 33%
 
4.6 4 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 9 5.2 4.8
5.7 5 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3 2.5 3.2
1.6 1.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 2.2
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.8 9.6 13 Shots (avg) S ( 14 11.8 10.8
3.2 3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 6 4.4
31% 27% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 8% 14% 19%
 
12.9 12.8 14 Shots against (avg) S A 10 11.3 10
4.2 3.4 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.8 3.2
Key stats in Superliga this season:
  • Newell's Old Boys have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Newell's Old Boys have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Superliga
  • Newell's Old Boys have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
  • Newell's Old Boys haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 12 10 0 2 22 5 5 4 0 1 10 3 7 6 0 1 12 2 17 30
2 San Lorenzo 12 7 3 2 14 5 6 5 1 0 8 0 6 2 2 2 6 5 9 24
3 Rosario Central 12 6 4 2 16 14 6 5 1 0 9 3 6 1 3 2 7 11 2 22
4 Talleres Cordoba 12 6 3 3 20 10 7 3 1 3 8 5 5 3 2 0 12 5 10 21
5 Defensa y Justicia 12 6 3 3 16 8 7 3 2 2 9 7 5 3 1 1 7 1 8 21
6 Belgrano 12 6 3 3 12 9 5 2 2 1 4 3 7 4 1 2 8 6 3 21
7 Lanus 12 5 4 3 19 13 5 3 1 1 8 3 7 2 3 2 11 10 6 19
8 Argentinos Juniors 12 5 3 4 15 8 5 4 1 0 13 2 7 1 2 4 2 6 7 18
9 Racing Club 12 5 3 4 15 13 6 3 2 1 7 5 6 2 1 3 8 8 2 18
10 Estudiantes 12 5 3 4 13 12 6 2 2 2 7 6 6 3 1 2 6 6 1 18
11 Newell's Old Boys 12 5 3 4 10 11 6 4 1 1 5 1 6 1 2 3 5 10 -1 18
12 Platense 12 4 5 3 14 14 7 2 4 1 8 8 5 2 1 2 6 6 0 17
13 Godoy Cruz 12 5 2 5 15 17 6 3 2 1 11 7 6 2 0 4 4 10 -2 17
14 Tigre 12 4 4 4 12 13 5 2 1 2 5 5 7 2 3 2 7 8 -1 16
15 Instituto 12 4 4 4 12 13 6 2 3 1 5 5 6 2 1 3 7 8 -1 16
16 Velez Sarsfield 12 3 6 3 15 11 7 2 4 1 12 7 5 1 2 2 3 4 4 15
17 Sarmiento 12 4 3 5 13 12 6 3 0 3 10 9 6 1 3 2 3 3 1 15
18 Central Cordoba SdE 12 4 3 5 8 13 6 3 1 2 5 4 6 1 2 3 3 9 -5 15
19 Boca Juniors 12 4 2 6 13 12 7 2 2 3 7 7 5 2 0 3 6 5 1 14
20 Huracan 12 3 4 5 13 17 6 2 2 2 6 8 6 1 2 3 7 9 -4 13
21 Barracas Central 12 3 4 5 10 16 6 2 2 2 4 6 6 1 2 3 6 10 -6 13
22 Banfield 12 3 4 5 8 14 7 2 3 2 2 5 5 1 1 3 6 9 -6 13
23 Colon 12 1 8 3 10 13 6 0 4 2 5 8 6 1 4 1 5 5 -3 11
24 Gimnasia La Plata 12 3 2 7 9 20 6 3 1 2 7 6 6 0 1 5 2 14 -11 11
25 Independiente 12 1 7 4 9 13 6 0 3 3 7 11 6 1 4 1 2 2 -4 10
26 Atletico Tucuman 12 1 7 4 8 15 6 1 3 2 6 9 6 0 4 2 2 6 -7 10
27 Arsenal de Sarandi 12 2 2 8 9 18 5 1 1 3 5 8 7 1 1 5 4 10 -9 8
28 Union Santa Fe 12 1 5 6 7 18 6 1 2 3 4 9 6 0 3 3 3 9 -11 8

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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.