Union Santa Fe vs Racing Club Prediction: Will Union Santa Fé steal points from Racing Club?

In the upcoming fixture of Argentina Primera División, Union Santa Fe will face off Racing Club at Estadio Gigante de Arroyito in Santa Fe. The home side drew (1-1) against Rosario, while the visitors arrive here after a home win (1-0) against Sarmiento Junin.

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

Union Santa Fe comes to this match after a draw (1-1) away against Rosario. The game started very closed, with few opportunities, being the first real opportunity of the game, the goal scored by Union Santa Fe. In an excellent moment of pressure, Union Santa Fe recovered the ball in a dangerous position and managed to finish through Luna Diale, advancing on the scoreboard. After the goal, the game opened up, with both teams creating plenty of goal opportunities. Both Union Santa Fe could have advanced even further on the scoreboard, and Rosario could have tied, which would end up happening near the end of the game. In the 87th minute of the game, in an excellent individual play by Giaccone, Rosario would tie.

With this result, Union Santa Fe proved to be a difficult team to defeat. In the last 5 games, Union Santa Fe only lost 1, still having a victory and 3 draws. For this game, Union will certainly try to maintain its consistency to win points against a difficult opponent.

Racing Club was completely dominant from the first minute, even having a stunning 80% possession in the first half and a total of 69% ball possession. Racing Club created numerous goal opportunities and took the lead near the end of the first half, at 45 minutes, through Rojas. Fernando Gago's team continued to suffocate and sent a ball to the crossbar. Racing Club was clearly superior and demonstrated all its offensive and defensive capacity in this game.

In fact, in the last 5 games played, Racing won 4, suffering only a surprising defeat against Godoy Cruz. In these 5 games Racing was able to score 9 goals, conceding only 4 goals. Racing Club is one of the teams in the best form at the moment and will try to maintain this good moment.

In the last 5 games between these 2 teams, goals were scored in every match, with an average of 2.8 goals per match. But in 3 of those matches, just one team was able to score. In those 5 matches, Racing Club had 3 victories, Union Santa Fe won 1, and they drew 1. But in the last 3 matches, Racing has won 2 and they drew 1.

Racing goes to this matchup with a slight advantage due to their current form and they are expected to win, yet the home factor can be an advantage to Union Santa Fe and that could lead to a surprise in the result.