It's the second try for points this campaign as Rosario Central and Vélez Sarsfield lock horns at Estadio Dr. Lisandro de la Torre.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Rosario Central and Vélez Sarsfield.
Rosario Central form and stats
In the previous season, Rosario Central's league results were 9 wins, 9 draws and 5 losses, leading to 9th place in the Superliga. From these 23 matches they scored 31 goals and conceded 29. Appearing at their own stadium in the former season Rosario Central delivered 7-3-1 (win-draw-lost) with 21 goals and 9 conceded.
Rosario Central shared the glory with Arsenal de Sarandi in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Midfielder Vecchio was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.2 (out of ten) in that game. Vecchio served one assist, hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 56 successful passes (of 68 total).
Ahead of that match, Rosario lost 1-4 at home to Huracan.Vélez Sarsfield form and stats
Let's have a look at how Vélez Sarsfield performed last season in the Superliga: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 11 victories, 6 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 27 and conceded 14 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 2 and lost 4 with 13/7 goals scored/conceded.
Impressive finishing from Janson and Orellano secured the home win 2-0 against Aldosivi in their previous game. Gianetti got a match rating of 8.03 in that game, top player of the team. Gianetti had 59 successful passes (of 71 total).
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Patronato.After this away game Vélez Sarsfield return home for a Superliga game against Independiente. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Head 2 Head
Stats for the former nine meetings featuring these two sides are: one win for Rosario Central, three draws and five wins for Vélez Sarsfield. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: seven games. The games between these clubs have had a tendency to be a bit rough, having seen 6 red cards from the last nine encounters.Top Goalscorers
  M. Ruben Rodríguez 1 goals |   L. Orellano 1 goals |  L. Janson 1 goals |
Rosario Central missing players
Vélez Sarsfield missing players
| Rosario Central | Vélez Sarsfield | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 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% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Rosario Central | Last season | Vélez Sarsfield | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 12 | 7 | Played | P | 6 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | ||
| 18 | 14 | Scored | S | 10 | 21 | ||
| 17 | 12 | Conceded | C | 4 | 15 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 92% | ||
| 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 69% | ||
| 58% | 86% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 54% | ||
| 33% | 57% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 38% | ||
| 8% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 23% | ||
| 50% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 62% | ||
| 33% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 31% | ||
| 17% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 15% | ||
| 5.2 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.9 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 3.8 | ||
| 2.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 8.6 | 10.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 10.2 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.5 | ||
| 38% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 36% | ||
| 10 | 10.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 10.1 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 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 | Central Cordoba SdE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Vélez Sarsfield | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Arsenal de Sarandi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Godoy Cruz | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Rosario Central | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Tigre | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Boca Juniors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Colon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Estudiantes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Huracan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Independiente | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Lanus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Barracas Central | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 14 | Aldosivi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
