Lanus – Central Cordoba
Lanus showed a very worrying version in their last league game, succumbing to an unexpected 3-1 away defeat to newly-promoted Deportivo Riestra. That result means El Granate lost two of their last three Liga Profesional commitments, along with only one win in that spell. Ricardo Zielinski’s men remain on 15 points in ten rounds, which keeps them occupying the last Copa Sudamericana berth in the aggregate table. Lanus also are holding a four-match winning streak at their own stadium in domestic action. On Wednesday 14, Lanus won 2-1 away at Ecuador’s LDU Quito in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16.
CA Central Cordoba were finally able to secure their first Liga Profesional victory in 2024. Last Sunday, the team managed to beat Defensa y Justicia 2-0 at home with Rafael Barrios and Matias Godoy scoring. However, they remain bottom in the respective table on four points. That victory allowed them to stop a 14-match winless streak of four stalemates and ten defeats and to climb out of the relegation spot in the aggregate table, now advantaging Tigre by one point. Central took just two points from the last 21 available as the visiting side. There is no relevant injury news for coach Omar De Felippe to visit Lanus on Saturday.
Lanus won at Ecuador midweek in Copa Sudamericana and play the return leg in just a few days, so they will use a lineup full of reserves here so even though Central Cordoba has been far from reliable this year, the coach change seems to have made them a better team as shown with their win last week and I’ll trust them here to avoid a defeat.