About Match
On paper the standings are lopsided — Independiente Rivadavia 2nd with 28 points, Banfield 12th with 9, 19 apart. On recent form Banfield sit only 54th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 12th overall. Per game in the league, Independiente Rivadavia score 1.5 and conceding 0.86, Banfield 1.1 and 1.6, against a competition average of 1.07 goals per team per game. If Independiente Rivadavia win, their total rises to 31 and up to 1st, assuming the rest of the results stand.
Banfield have drawn three in a row, having scored in 8 consecutive games. Over the last five, Independiente Rivadavia have taken 10 of 15 points to Banfield's 3.
10 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Independiente Rivadavia 1, draws 2, Banfield 7, at 2.6 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 40% of the meetings went to the host. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings.
The venue is Estadio Juan Bautista Gargantini in Mendoza, with room for 24,000 spectators.