Argentinos Jrs – Gimnasia

Despite fielding a mixed XI and seeing two red cards in the second half, Argentinos Juniors still were able to secure a valuable point on their visit to Huracan in their last league outing, drawing 0-0 in an intense game. El Bicho succumbed to a single defeat in their last seven matches in this competition (alongside three victories and three draws), which means they made it 18 points to occupy eighth place of the Liga Profesional table. Besides, Gabriel Milito’s men hold an impressive seven-game unbeaten streak of five wins and two stalemates at their own stadium in domestic action.

Gimnasia LP showed their worst version in round 12, when they were dominated from beginning to end and succumbed to a deserved 2-0 home defeat to newcomers Belgrano. As a result, El Lobo made it two league losses in a row (and three across the last four games in this competition, along with a single win). Therefore, relegation via the aggregate table is a threat again for them as Sebastian Romero’s men are sitting into 24th spot on 11 points, just three above bottom-placed Union Santa Fe. To make matters worse, Gimnasia are on seven away matches without a win in domestic action, having drawn one and lost six in that spell. On Tuesday 18, they lost 2-1 away at Independiente Santa Fe from Colombia in a Copa Sudamericana group game.

Argentinos have been on a great run lately, last Wednesday they got an impressive win 1-0 at Brazil in Copa Libertadores vs Corinthians, and they should be able to win at home against this very poor Gimnasia.

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