Arsenal vs Boca
Sarandi Arsenal new coach Federico Vilar experienced a rough debut last Friday, when his team showed a decent performance but ended up losing 1-0 away at Atletico Tucuman after conceding in stoppage time. That result represented El Viaducto’s fourth defeat across their last five league matches, which means they remain on 14 points in 18 rounds, occupying the bottom spot of the point-average table (18 points behind the last safe place, occupied by CA Central Cordoba) and also in the last place of the Liga Profesional rankings. On a positive note, Arsenal won three of their last five matches at Estadio Julio Humberto Grondona, along with two losses.
Boca Juniors played their best game under coach Jorge Almiron last Sunday, when they secured an important 1-0 home success over Tigre with Miguel Merentiel netting the winner in the first half. El Xeneize made it three victories in a row in the Liga Profesional, accumulating 27 points in 18 games to climb into ninth spot of the respective table (in fact, they lost only one of the last six in this competition, winning four and drawing one).
Arsenal will play next year in the 2nd division unless they can cut an 18 points difference in the averages table before December, so with nothing to play for I expect them to play an open game against this Boca that has been in a good run in the league.