Match Report
The table gap was wide: 25 points between Gimnasia Mendoza (4th, 63 pts) and Almagro (14th, 38 pts). Almagro ranked just 38th in the league on five-round form despite their 14th table position. Against a league average of 0.89 goals per team per game, Gimnasia Mendoza ran at 1.16 scored and 0.87 conceded, Almagro at 0.71 and 1.24.
Almagro had lost five in a row. The five-game form split read 8/15 points for Gimnasia Mendoza against 0/15 for Almagro.
GioScore's database holds 9 meetings between the two: 4 for Gimnasia Mendoza, 0 for Almagro and 5 drawn, at 2.22 goals per meeting. Only 33% of these meetings ended in a home win. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
The match was played at Estadio Ciudad de Caseros in Caseros (capacity 11,500). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Gimnasia Mendoza led 1-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 3-1.
Goal scorers
Gimnasia Mendoza: Nicolás Romano (34'), Nicolás Romano (52'), Luis Silba (58') · Almagro: Joaquin Ibáñez (90')