Barracas Central vs Velez
Barracas Central secured a valuable point on their visit to Platense, when they showed a poor version but registered a scoreless away stalemate in a controversial game. However, El Guapo made it ten Liga Profesional matches (five draws and five losses) to accumulate eight points, which keeps them out of the fight for a Copa Sudamericana ticket in the aggregate rankings. Barracas managed just two points from the last 15 on offer as the hosting side, drawing two and losing three. On Thursday 22, Alejandro Orfila’s lost 1-0 to Gimnasia LP in the Copa Argentina round of 16.
Velez Sarsfield are flying high at the moment. Last time out, they secured an important 1-0 home success over Instituto thanks to a penalty netted by Braian Romero in the first half. As a result, El Fortin made it six league matches unbeaten (five wins and one draw) to accumulate 21 points in the Liga Profesional (climbing into fourth spot, two behind leaders Huracan) and to stay as the best team in the aggregate table so far. On away turf, Velez grabbed seven points from the last nine available. Centre back Valentin Gomez is suspended for Monday after reaching the yellow-card limit in the league.
Barracas Central has been awful at home, conceding at least once in their last 6 games as hosts and they will face one of the best attacks in the league who have scored in 13 of their last 14 games so while I expect Velez to win and reach the top of the league, I’ll go for the OVER because I expect an open game with both teams scoring.