Week 12 features a match on Sun Apr 24th, where Racing Club hosts Newell’s Old Boys in a meeting of these two evenly matched Superliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 20 degrees, a perfect day for football. 1st placed Racing Club is fresh off their 3-2 win against Patronato. Javier Correa struck first for Racing Club in the 8th minute, then in the 13th minute, Jonathan Herrera sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Federico Castro , but luckily for Racing Club it didn’t end there. They were able to keep scoring to earn the win. Racing Club is on a hot streak lately, having won 8 of their last 10, while in their last match, 3rd placed Newell’s Old Boys, recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Banfield. Juan Manuel García scored the first goal for Newell’s Old Boys in the 69th minute on a penalty kick, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Banfield couldn’t muster any offence and Newell’s Old Boys ran away with the shutout win. With 19 points in their last 10 matches Newell’s Old Boys should be reasonably happy with their performance.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Racing Club won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Juan Manuel García has been the most prolific scorer on Newell’s Old Boys in the last five matches with two goals. Racing Club is fortunate enough to have Enzo Copetti in top form. In the last 5 matches the midfielder has scored four goals.