In a weekend match in week 4, on Sun Feb 27th, River Plate hosts Racing Club at Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti in a meeting of these two closely matched Superliga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 24 degrees, a perfect day for football. In their last match, River Plate recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Newell’s Old Boys. Juan Quintero scored the first goal for River Plate in the 72nd minute, then Robert Rojas added another in the 76th minute on a feed from Santiago Simon In the end, Newell’s Old Boys couldn’t muster any offence and River Plate ran away with the shutout win. River Plate is looking for direction having 2 win and 1 losses in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Racing Club recorded a 3-0 shutout win against Argentinos Juniors. Javier Correa struck first for Racing Club in the 19th minute, then Alcaraz added another in the 54th minute on a feed from Tomás Chancalay In the end, Argentinos Juniors couldn’t muster any offence and Racing Club ran away with the shutout win. Racing Club is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season River Plate won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Javier Correa has been the most prolific scorer on Racing Club in the last five matches with three goals. River Plate is glad to have Julián Álvarez in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored four goals.