About Match
16 points for Sarmiento (7th), 29 for River Plate (2nd): a 13-point gap. Sarmiento have been under-performing their position — 32nd on five-round form against 7th in the table. Per game in the league, Sarmiento score 1.7 and conceding 1.6, River Plate 1.38 and 0.75, against a competition average of 1.06 goals per team per game.
The sides have met 10 times in the GioScore results database: 2 wins for Sarmiento, 2 draws and 6 for River Plate, at 2.8 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 20% of the wins in this fixture. The fixture has tightened lately: 1.6 goals per game over the last five meetings, down from 2.8 all-time.
Estadio Eva Perón de Junín in Junín, capacity 22,000, hosts the game.