Defensa y Justicia prepare to battle it out with Atlético Tucumán in this Superliga match. Everything you can know about the match is located right here!
These teams have little in common geographically as Atlético Tucumán have to travel 1200 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Both squads have had enough rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's look for an in-your-face game!
Defensa y Justicia form and stats
Only two Superliga home games for Defensa y Justicia so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
The Justicia goalkeeper Luis Ezequiel Unsain is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 274 minutes without conceding a goal in the Superliga.
Defensa y Justicia enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Independiente's place. The match ended 2-0 with Solari and Fernández scoring. Barbona (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.8/10. Barbona served one assist, hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.
Ahead of that match, Justicia won a home game hosting Newell's Old Boys (1-0).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 Defensa y Justicia have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 6 and lost 0.
Defensa y Justicia has scored {3 goals} so far and conceded {4 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Atlético Tucumán form and stats
The Superliga season is young and Atlético Tucumán have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.
Atlético's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Vélez Sarsfield that finished 1-1. As mentioned above, Atlético Tucumán drew the match against Vélez Sarsfield. Manager Pusineri brought on Gonzalez to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Midfielder Sánchez was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.34. Sánchez hit one key pass.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Platense that ended 1-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by Atlético Tucumán in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Atlético, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
{1 goals} so far away for Atlético Tucumán, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Defensa y Justicia victories, four draws and one Atlético Tucumán win. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  N. Fernández 3 goals | S. Solari 2 goals |  K. Gutiérrez 1 goals |
Defensa y Justicia missing players
Atlético Tucumán missing players
| Defensa y Justicia | Atlético Tucumán | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 75% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 3 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.5 | 4 |
| 7.8 | 10 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4 | 3.8 |
| 3 | 2.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.2 | 10 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 14 | 11.2 |
| 3 | 2.5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
| 58% | 60% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 14% | 15% |
| 16.8 | 16.5 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 11.5 | 12.5 |
| 5.5 | 8.5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2 | 3.2 |
