We love the setup of this game, with Defensa y Justicia positioned 3rd and Estudiantes placed 5th. Here's news and statistics!
- Defensa y Justicia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Estudiantes have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
This has all the signs of an intriguing match with lots of fun and excitement as both contenders are well revitalized since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Defensa y Justicia form and stats
Defensa y Justicia have collected 14 points from their Superliga home games so far after 4-2-2. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Estadio Norberto Tito Tomaghello.
Defensa y Justicia are confident in defense, having played 455 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Defensa y Justicia travelled for their previous game, a trip to San Lorenzo that ended 0-0. Defender Cardona got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.65/10. Cardona won 6 of 10 duels.
Preceding that match, a home victory against Penarol in the Copa Sudamericana. 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 Justicia have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 5 and lost 0.
It should be added that a peek at the 14 most recent league fixtures shows that 12 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).
Defensa y Justicia has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. From these home matches, Defensa y Justicia have conceded only 7 goals.
Estudiantes form and stats
4 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Estudiantes playing as the away team in the Superliga this season. The fact that Estudiantes have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.
Estudiantes won their last game, 2-0 versus Velez Sarsfield played at home. Benedetti got a match rating of 9.13 in that game, top player of the team. Benedetti scored two goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that game, 0-0 away against Bragantino in the Copa Sudamericana. As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Estudiantes in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Estudiantes, 2 draws and 9 defeats.
Estudiantes are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 7 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The 4 most recent games involving these teams have all ended as Defensa y Justicia wins. More of the same or streak broken?The games between these clubs have sometimes been aggressive, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last eight duels.
Top Goalscorers
  N. Fernández 7 goals |   M. Boselli 6 goals | S. Solari 4 goals |
Defensa y Justicia missing players
Estudiantes missing players
| Defensa y Justicia | Estudiantes | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 20 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 18 |
| 8 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 13 |
| 80% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 60% | 62% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 71% | 73% |
| 27% | 38% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 40% |
| 7% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 7% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 38% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 47% |
| 73% | 62% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 29% | 40% |
| 27% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 20% |
| 4.5 | 5.5 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4.1 | 4.9 |
| 6.7 | 6.2 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.6 | 4.7 |
| 2.9 | 2.1 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.6 | 1.9 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.3 | 13.4 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 12 | 13.3 |
| 4.5 | 4.6 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 29% | 30% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 25% | 28% |
| 14.3 | 13.2 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 9.9 | 8.9 |
| 3.7 | 4.8 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 3 | 2.4 |
- Defensa y Justicia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Defensa y Justicia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Defensa y Justicia have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Estudiantes have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Estudiantes 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 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 20 | 37 |
| 2 | San Lorenzo | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 29 |
| 3 | Defensa y Justicia | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 28 |
| 4 | Talleres Cordoba | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 27 |
| 5 | Estudiantes | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 27 |
| 6 | Belgrano | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 27 |
| 7 | Rosario Central | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 26 |
| 8 | Lanus | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 25 |
| 9 | Godoy Cruz | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 22 |
| 10 | Tigre | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| 11 | Argentinos Juniors | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 20 |
| 12 | Newell's Old Boys | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -2 | 20 |
| 13 | Sarmiento | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 19 |
| 14 | Boca Juniors | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 18 |
| 15 | Racing Club | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -4 | 18 |
| 16 | Central Cordoba SdE | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 18 |
| 17 | Gimnasia La Plata | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | -8 | 18 |
| 18 | Colon | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 17 |
| 19 | Barracas Central | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 17 |
| 20 | Platense | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -6 | 17 |
| 21 | Instituto | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -6 | 17 |
| 22 | Velez Sarsfield | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 16 |
| 23 | Huracan | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | -5 | 16 |
| 24 | Banfield | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -8 | 15 |
| 25 | Independiente | 15 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 14 |
| 26 | Atletico Tucuman | 15 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 14 |
| 27 | Arsenal de Sarandi | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | -10 | 11 |
| 28 | Union Santa Fe | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -12 | 9 |
