About Match
12 points for Tigre (10th), 16 for Sarmiento (7th): a 4-point gap. The last five rounds place Tigre no better than 48th for form, against 10th in the standings. Scoring rates set the scale: Tigre 0.9 scored and 0.9 conceded per game, Sarmiento 1.7 and 1.6, with the league averaging 1.07.
Three consecutive defeats weigh on Tigre.
The head-to-head ledger counts 10 games: 2 Tigre wins, 3 for Sarmiento, 5 draws, at 1.5 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 40% of those meetings. Historically tight: 10% of the meetings went beyond two goals.
Estadio José Dellagiovanna in San Fernando stages the fixture, a ground that holds 26,282.