It's game day two of the Superliga campaign and all to play for. Read our exhaustive preview of River Plate-Patronato!
There have been limited time to rest for the hosts, as they featured in a Superliga match only four days back. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Union Santa Fe.
River Plate form and stats
River Plate lost their last game at Union Santa Fe (placed 4th) after a 0-1 scoreline. Midfield player Pérez got a match rating of 7.14 in that game, the max score being 10. Pérez had 69 successful passes (of 81 total).
1-1 away at Atletico Tucuman before that.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for River home games with this odds we find 20 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 13 wins, two draws and five defeats. Looking at the victories, eight matches were won by at least two goals.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for River Plate as they are travelling to their away game against Newell's Old Boys in the Superliga. That match is four days after this one.
Patronato form and stats
Let's have a look at how Patronato performed last season in the Superliga: They landed a 20th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 8 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 22 and conceded 34 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 5 and lost 6 with 10/19 goals scored/conceded.
Sosa was the last player to score for the away team. Patronato haven't scored a league goal in the last 462 minutes.
Patronato's previous game was their home loss versus Argentinos Juniors (0-1). Midfield player Castro was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.45/10. Castro hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Gimnasia La Plata.Head 2 Head
As for the last five games between these two teams, there's three River victories, zero draws and two Patronato wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.River Plate missing players
Patronato missing players
| River Plate | Patronato | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| River Plate | Last season | Patronato | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 11 | 6 | Played | P | 6 | 11 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 19 | 9 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | ||
| 12 | 9 | Conceded | C | 12 | 16 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 82% | ||
| 91% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 55% | ||
| 55% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 45% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 9% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 64% | 83% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 36% | ||
| 27% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 18% | ||
| 9% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 64% | ||
| 7.6 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.5 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 4.5 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.6 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 10.8 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.7 | 6.5 | ||
| 5 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.8 | 2.2 | ||
| 35% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 21% | ||
| 7.8 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10.6 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Argentinos Juniors | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Newell's Old Boys | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Sarmiento | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Union Santa Fe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Banfield | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | San Lorenzo | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Gimnasia La Plata | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Platense | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Racing Club | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Talleres Cordoba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Atletico Tucuman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Defensa y Justicia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Patronato | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | River Plate | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
