Central Cordoba – Instituto

CA Central Cordoba secured a massive point on their visit to Godoy Cruz in matchday 13, when they drew 1-1 away despite playing with ten men for 65 minutes. El Ferroviario made it seven points in the Liga Profesional, which keeps them occupying the relegation spot in the aggregate table, now trailing Tigre by three despite having not lost any of their last four in this competition (one win and three stalemates). Central won only one of their last ten as the hosting side, drawing four and losing five. Centre back Lucas Abascia is suspended for Friday after seeing a red card.

Instituto are showing good skills in the league. Two weeks ago, the team managed an important 2-1 away success at Banfield with Damian Puebla netting the winner in the 95th minute. Thanks to that victory, La Gloria made it three victories and two draws across their last six games to accumulate 24 points in this competition, trailing leaders Velez Sarsfield by three. In fact, Diego Dabove’s men climbed into one of the Copa Sudamericana berths in the aggregate table. Furthermore, Instituto stopped a three-match winless streak of one draw and two losses on away turf.

Instituto are in 3rd place now and playing solid football, with 9 goals scored in the last 5 games. Here they will face the worst defense in the league, Central Cordoba who have conceded 23 goals in just 13 matches and are desperate for points because they are sitting at the bottom of the aggregate table, so I’ll go for the OVER here.

BET: OVER 2 @ 2.05