After league round 1 it's Sarmiento - Banfield 3-1 in points. Who will achieve victory in this second Superliga game of the season?
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Sarmiento form and stats
The season before, Sarmiento's league results were 12 wins, 10 draws and 2 losses, producing 1st spot in the Primera B Nacional. In these 24 matches they scored 32 goals and conceded 14. Appearing at their own stadium in the last season Sarmiento delivered 5-7-0 (win-draw-lost) with 18 goals and 10 conceded. When playing at home in the Superliga, Sarmiento have managed 1 win, 0 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 1 games.
Sarmiento's last game was hosting Atletico Tucuman (placed 11th) and winning 1-0. Acosta, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.82 out of 10 in that game. Acosta topped it up with a clean sheet.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Argentinos Juniors (0-2).Sarmiento are traveling soon after this match as the Superliga match at Platense awaits in three days.
Sarmiento has scored 1 goal so far and conceded 0 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Banfield form and stats
Let's have a look at how Banfield performed last season in the Superliga: They landed a 17th position in the league table after playing out 6 victories, 8 draws and 9 defeats. In total they scored 19 and conceded 23 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 4 and lost 3 with 8/6 goals scored/conceded.
Sonora was the last player to score for the away team. Banfield haven't scored a league goal in the last 275 minutes. Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Banfield goalkeeper Enrique Alberto Bologna Gomez is eager to challenge this, with his 324 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Banfield delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against San Lorenzo (placed 6th) in their previous game. Midfield player Romero was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.74/10. Romero hit two key passes.
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Arsenal de Sarandi.A quick return to home after this game, as Banfield are hosting Gimnasia La Plata in the Superliga only four days away.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the previous seven meetings): Sarmiento won one game, three matches ended with a draw and Banfield have three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / sixSarmiento missing players
Banfield missing players
| Sarmiento | Banfield | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 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% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 9 | 9 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | 15 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 8 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 12 | 12 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sarmiento | Last season | Banfield | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 8 | 4 | Played | P | 7 | 13 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Won | W | 5 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 16 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 9 | 15 | ||
| 75% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 92% | ||
| 50% | 25% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 85% | ||
| 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 54% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 57% | 38% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 43% | 31% | ||
| 50% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 71% | 69% | ||
| 50% | 75% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 23% | ||
| 25% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 15% | ||
| 5.6 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 4.5 | ||
| 6.1 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 5.5 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.5 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 14.3 | 18.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.1 | 10.5 | ||
| 5.9 | 7.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 4.3 | ||
| 20% | 9% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 55% | 45% | ||
| 10.1 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 9.5 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.5 | ||
| 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 |
