Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Estudiantes (5th, 45 pts) held a 20-point advantage over Colón (27th, 25 pts). Scoring rates set the scale: Colón 0.74 scored and 1.22 conceded per game, Estudiantes 1.3 and 0.89, with the league averaging 1.03.
Colón had drawn three in a row. Defeat had not touched Estudiantes in 13 games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 9 games: 4 Colón wins, 1 for Estudiantes, 4 draws, at 2.56 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 33% of meetings won. Where history says 2.56 goals per meeting, the last five say 4.
Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López in Ciudad de Santa Fe staged the fixture, a ground that holds 40,000. On the scoreboard, Colón led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-0 the final score.