With the nervous opening game out of the way it’s time for the second Superliga game of the season. Huracán look forward to welcoming River Plate in front of their home support.
- Huracán have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- River Plate have won all their away games so far.
The visiting River Plate played their last game only three days ago, a Copa Libertadores match. That game, against Nacional, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for River Plate.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
Huracán form and stats
Overall Superliga stats at home this season for Huracán are 1-0-0 (wins-draw-losses). Huracán has recorded two wins in a row here at Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
The Huracán supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Independiente in Superliga and win 3-2. Before that, Huracán played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Gimnasia La Plata.
An impressive turnaround for Huracán in the match against Independiente as a 0-2 deficit was completely turned around to a 3-2 win. Andrés Chávez scored the final goal.
Huracán has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Last season, Huracán's league statistics were 5 wins, 7 draws and 11 losses, resulting in a 21st position in the Torneos De Verano. Over these 23 matches they scored 17 goals and conceded 27. Playing at home last season Huracán managed 3-4-4 (win-draw-lost) with 7 goals and 11 conceded.
River Plate form and stats
It's the second away game in a row for River Plate, but there's smiles all around after the 6-2 victory versus Nacional in the Copa Libertadores last time out. A draw for River before that, at their own venue hosting Argentinos Juniors (1-1).
As mentioned above, River was the only team on the pitch versus Nacional in their previous game, winning 6-2. This could be a tougher task. It's hard not to mention Rafael Santos Borré's lethal finishing against Nacional. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.
Let's have a look at how River Plate performed last season in the Torneos De Verano: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 5 draws and 4 defeats. In total they scored 41 and conceded 18 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 9 - drew 3 and lost 0 with 29/11 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Huracán three wins, three draws and River Plate two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Chávez 3 goals | N. Briasco Belekyan 2 goals |  R. Rojas 2 goals |
Huracán missing players
River Plate missing players
| Huracán | River Plate | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 8 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 86% |
| 57% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| 29% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 29% | 50% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 71% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 57% |
| 29% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 43% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.6 | 2.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.3 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.9 | 12.8 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 13.7 | 11.6 |
| 3.3 | 4 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 6 | 5 |
| 48% | 50% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 28% | 34% |
- Huracán have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Huracán have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Huracán haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- River Plate have scored in all their matches so far.
- River Plate have won all their away games so far.
- River Plate 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 | Huracán | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Argentinos Juniors | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Arsenal de Sarandi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Boca Juniors | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | River Plate | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Independiente | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |