Boca Juniors duel Defensa y Justicia for acclaim and sporting success.
- Boca Juniors have not yet lost a game at home.
- Defensa y Justicia have won all their away games so far.
Boca Juniors and Defensa y Justicia should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Boca Juniors form and stats
Seven points from three Superliga home games is a great start for Boca Juniors, who are hoping to build on that form here at Estadio Alberto José Armando.
Boca Juniors's previous fixture was a Super Cup game also played at home, ending 3-0 vs Patronato. The home side are looking to repeat that performance.
In the game before, an away victory in the Superliga match versus Velez Sarsfield with a 2-1 scoreline.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 Juniors have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 20 games) they have won 13 times, drawn 6 and lost 1.
Boca Juniors are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 3 games. Juniors have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {1 goals}.
Defensa y Justicia form and stats
Defensa y Justicia are yet to lose a point on their Superliga travels this season with 2 wins from 2 away games.
The Defensa y Justicia goalkeeper Luis Ezequiel Unsain is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 364 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Defensa y Justicia go into this game after a win, the home game against Atletico Tucuman that ended 3-0. Defensa y Justicia delivered their win in the match against Atletico Tucuman already in the first half, and could slow the play down in the final 45 minutes to ensure the glorious victory. A solid performance! Attacker Fernández got a player rating of 8.4 in the game. "Man of the match" Fernández scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Independiente.Justicia are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.
{4 goals} so far away for Defensa y Justicia, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Boca Juniors have avoided a loss in the last 6 fixtures (5-1-0) versus Defensa y Justicia.Top Goalscorers
  N. Fernández 4 goals | S. Solari 3 goals |  L. Langoni 2 goals |
Boca Juniors missing players
Defensa y Justicia missing players
| Boca Juniors | Defensa y Justicia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 80% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 80% |
| 60% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 40% |
| 20% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 60% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 40% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 80% |
| 20% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.4 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| 4.2 | 3.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.5 | 7.2 |
| 2.8 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.5 | 2.8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10.4 | 14 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12.5 | 11.2 |
| 3.2 | 3.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
| 44% | 40% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 57% | 59% |
| 13.6 | 12.7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 17 | 15.8 |
| 3.2 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.5 | 4.6 |
- All of Defensa y Justicia's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Boca Juniors have not yet lost a game at home.
- Defensa y Justicia have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Defensa y Justicia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Defensa y Justicia have scored in all their matches so far.
- Defensa y Justicia have won all their away games so far.
- Defensa y Justicia have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Defensa y Justicia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lanus | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 2 | Defensa y Justicia | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | Talleres Cordoba | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | San Lorenzo | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Huracan | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | Boca Juniors | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Rosario Central | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 8 | River Plate | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 9 | Racing Club | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | Tigre | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 11 | Instituto | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 12 | Barracas Central | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 | Newell's Old Boys | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 14 | Belgrano | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 7 |
| 15 | Argentinos Juniors | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 16 | Godoy Cruz | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 6 |
| 17 | Velez Sarsfield | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 18 | Sarmiento | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | -1 | 5 |
| 19 | Estudiantes | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -2 | 5 |
| 20 | Independiente | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2 | 5 |
| 21 | Platense | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 5 |
| 22 | Gimnasia La Plata | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 4 |
| 23 | Arsenal de Sarandi | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -4 | 4 |
| 24 | Central Cordoba SdE | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -4 | 4 |
| 25 | Banfield | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 3 |
| 26 | Union Santa Fe | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 3 |
| 27 | Colon | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 2 |
| 28 | Atletico Tucuman | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 2 |
