Instituto showed improvements before the Copa America break. Last time out, the team secured a massive 2-0 away success at Newell’s Old Boys to make it two consecutive Liga Profesional victories, which allowed them to accumulate ten points in five rounds after winning three, drawing one and losing one. Following this campaign, La Gloria are still involved in the fight to clinch a Copa Sudamericana ticket for next season. Instituto beat Gimnasia LP 2-1 in their last home match to stop a three-game winless streak of one draw and two losses as the hosting side.

Independiente returned to winning ways in MD5, when they secured a hard-fought 2-1 home success over Banfield thanks to goals from Santiago Lopez and Gabriel Avalos. El Rojo stopped a five-match winless streak in league action (four stalemates and one defeat) to make it six points in the Liga Profesional, approaching the Copa Sudamericana places in the aggregate table. Independiente succumbed to a single defeat in eight away matches in 2024, winning three and drawing four so far. Independiente secured one victory and one draw in preseason games. Coach Julio Vaccari will make his debut on Thursday.

Neither lost important players during the break, Independiente will have the debut of a new, more offensive coach and 4 out of 5 Instituto games so far in this tournament had at least 2 goals so I’ll go for the OVER on this very short totals line.

BET: OVER 1.75 @ 1.83