Yet another engrossing game in the Superliga. River Plate is in the 12th spot after participating in five matches. They host Vélez Sarsfield who are placed 24th after five games.
- River Plate have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in Superliga
- Vélez Sarsfield have the fewest scored goals (0) in Superliga
These are hectic days for the home side, as they played only three days ago in the Copa Libertadores. This match was also played here at Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Vélez Sarsfield have had more rest.
This is a battle between neighbours, usually meaning added stress and significance.
River Plate form and stats
The total Superliga stats at home this season for River Plate are 1-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).
The River Plate crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Atlético Mineiro here at Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti in a Copa Libertadores match. Defender Fabrizio Angileri got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.82/10. Angileri hit the woodwork once, hit five key passes and won 5 of 9 duels.
Prior to that, an away loss at Godoy Cruz in the Superliga.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 River have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found three games) they have won one time, drawn zero and lost two.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for River Plate as they are travelling to their away game against Atlético Mineiro in the Copa Libertadores. That match is four days after this one.
River Plate can score goals in their home matches. After 3 league matches they have found the net 6 times. River Plate have conceded 3 in these home matches.
Vélez Sarsfield form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Superliga for Vélez Sarsfield with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
Sarsfield aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 545 league minutes without a goal. T. Almada was the last player to find the net.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Superliga home defeat versus Colon with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Tomás Guidara was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.63. The defender Guidara hit one key pass and won 11 of 14 duels.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Atletico Tucuman.We have checked recent matches where Sarsfield have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those three games were two victories, zero draws and one defeat.
0 goals so far away for Vélez Sarsfield, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): River three wins, zero draws and Vélez Sarsfield two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Borré Amaury 8 goals |  M. Suárez 6 goals |  D. De La Cruz Arcosa 4 goals |
River Plate missing players
Vélez Sarsfield missing players
| River Plate | Vélez Sarsfield | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 6 | 9 | 19 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 36 | 17 | 8 | Scored | S | 10 | 13 | 23 |
| 17 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 89% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 89% | 79% |
| 74% | 78% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 67% | 47% |
| 58% | 67% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 33% | 26% |
| 26% | 33% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 11% | 16% |
| 21% | 22% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 11% | 16% |
| 53% | 56% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 17% | 33% | 26% |
| 37% | 33% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 44% | 58% |
| 21% | 22% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 37% |
| 7.7 | 9.7 | 11.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.4 | 5.4 | 4.6 |
| 4.4 | 4 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 5.1 | 4.9 |
| 2.3 | 2.1 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 14.2 | 14.4 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.8 | 10.1 | 10.3 |
| 5.7 | 5.9 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 5.1 | 4.5 |
| 33% | 32% | 57% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 27% | 26% |
- River Plate have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- River Plate have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- River Plate have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in Superliga
- River Plate have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- River Plate have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Vélez Sarsfield have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Vélez Sarsfield have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Vélez Sarsfield have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Superliga
- Vélez Sarsfield have the fewest scored goals (0) in Superliga
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Independiente | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 2 | Lanus | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | Newell's Old Boys | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | Colon | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 5 | Estudiantes | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | Godoy Cruz | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 7 | Aldosivi | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | -1 | 9 |
| 8 | Patronato | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | Racing Club | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 10 | Gimnasia La Plata | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 | San Lorenzo | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 8 |
| 12 | River Plate | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 13 | Talleres Cordoba | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 14 | Atletico Tucuman | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 7 |
| 15 | Argentinos Juniors | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 16 | Banfield | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 17 | Sarmiento | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -4 | 6 |
| 18 | Union Santa Fe | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -1 | 5 |
| 19 | Central Cordoba SdE | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 5 |
| 20 | Huracan | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 5 |
| 21 | Arsenal de Sarandi | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -5 | 5 |
| 22 | Defensa y Justicia | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 4 |
| 23 | Boca Juniors | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 4 |
| 24 | Vélez Sarsfield | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 3 |
| 25 | Rosario Central | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 3 |
| 26 | Platense | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 2 |