On Sat Oct 22nd, in week 27, Vélez Sarsfield and Argentinos Juniors will play a match in Capital Federal in a clash of these two extremely mismatched Superliga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 10 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Argentinos Juniors is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Gimnasia La Plata. Neither Gimnasia La Plata nor Argentinos Juniors could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 9 and 23 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Argentinos Juniors is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while vélez Sarsfield sits at 26th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 4-0 shutout win against Estudiantes. Lucas Janson struck first for Vélez Sarsfield in the 37th minute on a penalty kick, then Osorio added another in the 72nd minute In the end, Estudiantes couldn’t muster any offence and Vélez Sarsfield ran away with the shutout win. Vélez Sarsfield is looking for direction having earned 14 points in their last 10 matches.
On Mar 22nd, Argentinos Juniors hosted Vélez Sarsfield at the Estadio Diego Armando Maradona in their last match together. Argentinos Juniors won by a score of 1 to 0. Fausto Mariano Vera struck first for Argentinos Juniors in the 74th minute on a feed from Nicolas Reniero, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Vélez Sarsfield was frustrated by Argentinos Juniors’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Argentinos Juniors ended the match with the shutout victory.
Vélez Sarsfield is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Abiel Osorio and Lucas Janson each having 2 goals in their last 5. Alan Rodríguez Guaglianoni and Franco Moyano are the top scorers for Argentinos Juniors in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal. It’s hard to imagine having success with those stats.