Important shoot-out in the lower part of the Superliga, with both Tigre and Vélez Sarsfield undergoing more stress than joy. This match is a real "six-pointer" with the hosts placed 20th and the away side in 25th position.
- Tigre have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Vélez Sarsfield have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
This has all the signs of an action-packed fixture with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well renewed since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's start!
Tigre form and stats
3-3-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Superliga numbers at home for Tigre so far this season. When Tigre hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Huracan, Instituto, Independiente, Tigre, Arsenal de Sarandi, Barracas Central, Atletico Tucuman, Banfield and Union Santa Fe), they have won 1 of 2 matches! With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Tigre to get some points in this home game.
No payout for Tigre in their previous match, an away game at Platense that ended in defeat 0-1. Midfielder Menossi was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.64 (out of ten) in that game. Menossi hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A home win before that one, as anticipated. The team were solid favourites against Academia Puerto Cabello and won 2-1. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Tigre handle that role? We have found 17 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 9 wins, 6 draws and 2 defeats.
Trench warfare? In this club's last 17 league matches, 13 have produced less than three goals (under 2.5).
10 goals have been conceded. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. Tigre has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.
Vélez Sarsfield form and stats
Vélez Sarsfield have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Superliga, after 1-2-6 (9 played). Bitter travels for Vélez Sarsfield as they have lost five games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Defensa y Justicia match.
Vélez Sarsfield play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Racing Club (placed 14th). Fernández got a match rating of 7.45 in that game, top player of the team. Fernández scored one goal and hit one key pass.
A 0-1 loss hosting Argentinos Juniors before that.We have checked recent matches where Sarsfield have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 8 games were 1 victory, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 12 goals have been conceded by Vélez Sarsfield in these games. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
Tigre-Vélez Sarsfield H2H statistics last eight meetings regardless of arena: Tigre three wins, Vélez Sarsfield four wins, one draw. seven of these eight matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  M. Retegui 10 goals |   L. Janson 4 goals | J. Fernández 3 goals |
Tigre missing players
Vélez Sarsfield missing players
| Tigre | Vélez Sarsfield | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 20 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| 18 | 9 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 19 |
| 23 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 12 | 22 |
| 90% | 89% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 89% | 75% |
| 60% | 44% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 60% |
| 35% | 44% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 40% |
| 20% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 45% | 44% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | 45% |
| 25% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 30% |
| 40% | 33% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 56% | 50% |
| 5 | 5.1 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 4.3 | 4 |
| 4.7 | 5 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 15.2 | 16.7 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 9.6 | 10.2 |
| 4.5 | 5 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
| 20% | 20% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 21% | 29% |
| 12.9 | 15.1 | 14 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 10.6 | 11 |
| 4.5 | 4.6 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
- Tigre have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Vélez Sarsfield have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | River Plate | 20 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 24 | 47 |
| 2 | Talleres Cordoba | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 18 | 40 |
| 3 | San Lorenzo | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 37 |
| 4 | Estudiantes | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 35 |
| 5 | Lanus | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 28 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 34 |
| 6 | Rosario Central | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 34 |
| 7 | Defensa y Justicia | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 33 |
| 8 | Belgrano | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 31 |
| 9 | Argentinos Juniors | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 29 |
| 10 | Godoy Cruz | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 29 |
| 11 | Boca Juniors | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 28 |
| 12 | Newell's Old Boys | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 28 |
| 13 | Platense | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -3 | 26 |
| 14 | Racing Club | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -4 | 26 |
| 15 | Sarmiento | 20 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 25 |
| 16 | Gimnasia La Plata | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 20 | -10 | 25 |
| 17 | Central Cordoba SdE | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -5 | 24 |
| 18 | Colon | 20 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 23 |
| 19 | Barracas Central | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | -7 | 23 |
| 20 | Tigre | 20 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | -5 | 22 |
| 21 | Instituto | 20 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -10 | 22 |
| 22 | Independiente | 20 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 20 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -3 | 21 |
| 23 | Atletico Tucuman | 20 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 21 |
| 24 | Union Santa Fe | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -10 | 20 |
| 25 | Vélez Sarsfield | 20 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | -3 | 18 |
| 26 | Huracan | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 14 | -9 | 18 |
| 27 | Banfield | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 | -13 | 18 |
| 28 | Arsenal de Sarandi | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 16 | -12 | 17 |
