Sarmiento Junin vs River Plate Prediction: Will River Plate maintain their winning streak?

In the upcoming fixture of Argentina Primera División, Sarmiento Junin will receive River Plate at Estadio Eva Peron in Junin. The home side head here after a defeat away (1-0) against Racing Club, while the visitors arrives at this match after a good victory (3-0) at home against Godoy Cruz.

Continue reading to find out more about the competing sides and their overall statistics in terms of goals scored and conceded.

Sarmiento Junin comes to this match after a defeat against Racing Club. Sarmiento Junin felt a lot of difficulties throughout the game, against a very strong and dominant Racing. In fact, in the 1st half, the difference was so noticeable that Racing Club had an impressive 80% ball possession. Racing created numerous goal opportunities and even took the lead at the end of the 1st half, even sending another ball to the crossbar before the referee whistled for the break. In the 2nd half, Sarmiento Junin started a little better, however, was not able to create great goal opportunities and would end up losing the game.

Sarmiento Junin is going through a difficult phase of the season in terms of results, with only one victory in the last 5 games. In addition, they have not taken advantage of the home factor, with only one victory in 4 games, with the other 3 ending up in defeat. Sarmiento will have an extremely complicated game and any point they get in this game will be of great importance.

River Plate comes to this game in its best moment of the season. They had an impressive victory (3-0) over Godoy Cruz and added the 3rd consecutive victory, the 4th in the last 5 games.

River was the most dominant team since the start of the game, with numerous goal opportunities. They would go ahead on the scoreboard still in the 1st half in an excellent goal by Beltran. River had even more opportunities to dilate the marker, however, they did not succeed due to a lack of accuracy. And at the start of the 1st half, River Plate maintained its offensive momentum, ending up getting 2 penalties that would seal the result at 3-0. It was an excellent performance by Martin Demichelis' team, which showed that River is a contender for the title.

After a somewhat troubled start to the season, River Plate is back on track. In the last 5 games they have won 4, with an impressive 12 goals scored and only 4 goals conceded. In addition, they have not conceded goals for 3 consecutive days. River is in excellent form and will certainly be looking for a fourth consecutive victory against Sarmiento.

In the last 5 games between these 2 teams, River Plate had 2 victories, Sarmiento had 1 victory, and they drew another 2. Goals were scored in all of those 5 matches, and in all of those at least 2 goals were scored, with an impressive average of 3.8 goals per match

Due to their current form, River is expected to win this match, however, it will be a difficult one as Sarmiento will try to at least get on point playing at home.