Boca – Newell’s

Boca Juniors seem to be finding a way to improve. Last weekend, the side showed an enjoyable performance to claim an important 3-1 away success at Gimnasia LP. Jorge Almiron’s men made it four league games unbeaten, taking ten points from 12 on offer in that spell, which allows them to accumulate 38 points in the Liga Profesional, just four behind the last Copa Libertadores’ spot, occupied by Lanus. Boca haven’t lost any of their last six at home in domestic action, winning five and drawing one. On Thursday, they won 2-1 over Barracas Central in the Copa Argentina second round. Defensive midfielder Alan Varela saw his tenth yellow card of the season in round 25 and is suspended here. Regarding the last league game, Bruno Valdez, Valentin Barco and Norberto Briasco would replace Marcelo Weigandt, Varela and Luis Vazquez (sold to Belgian side RSC Anderlecht).

Newell’s Old Boys had to settle for a disappointing scoreless home draw against Atletico Tucuman last Monday, when they had a controversial goal disallowed after dominating the game. La Lepra succumbed to a single defeat in their last eight league matches, winning two and drawing five in that time. Following that irregular streak, Gabriel Heinze’s men remain out of the continental spots, accumulating 34 points and trailing the last Copa Sudamericana berth by three. Newell’s won 2-0 away at Independiente in their last away match to break a six-game winless streak of three stalemates and three losses on the road in domestic action.

Boca has scored at least once in their last 9 home games, they looked decent in attack in their last games, so I’ll go with the over here on this very low totals line.

BET: OVER 1.75 @ 1.81