Match Report
13th against 8th, but level on points: Platense and Newell's Old Boys both had 16. Platense ranked just 54th in the league on five-round form despite their 13th table position. Per game in the league, Platense were scoring 0.63 and conceding 0.94, Newell's Old Boys 1.1 and 0.8, against a competition average of 1.07 goals per team per game.
Newell's Old Boys's last three games had all finished level.
8 meetings are on record — 0 won by Platense, 3 by Newell's Old Boys, 5 drawn, at 1.88 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 38% of the wins in this fixture. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 25% of the meetings.
The referee was S. Martínez, with 82 matches in our database and 2.6 yellows per game on average. The venue was Estadio Ciudad de Vicente López, with room for 31,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, Newell's Old Boys led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-1 the final score.
Goal scorers
Newell's Old Boys: Santiago Solari (18')
Key stats
Possession: Platense 57% · Newell's Old Boys 43% · Total shots: 5-9 · On target: 2-4 · Corners: 6-1