Central Cordoba vs Barracas Central
CA Central Cordoba are clearly improving under coach Omar De Felippe. Last Monday, the team celebrated a massive 3-1 away success at Sarmiento in an entertaining six-pointer. Thanks to that victory, El Ferroviario accumulated 13 points in the Liga Profesional and climbed out of the relegation spot in the aggregate table, now advantaging bottom-placed Tigre by two points. The side are unbeaten in their last six in this competition, winning three and drawing three. At home, Central managed seven points from the last nine available.
Barracas Central finally returned to winning ways in league action. Last weekend, the team beat Instituto 1-0 away thanks to a strike from Javier Ruiz in the second half. As a result, El Guapo stopped their 13-match winless streak of five stalemates and eight defeats in this competition to make it 11 points in the Liga Profesional, which allows them to stay fighting for a Copa Sudamericana berth. The aforementioned win also arrived after six winless matches as the visiting side (drawing three and losing three).
Central Cordoba are doing their best to avoid relegation, with 4 wins and 4 draws in their last 8 games (including a win and a draw in Copa Argentina) but it’s still not enough because they are 2nd to bottom on both the averages table and the anual table so they can’t relax. They will face the worst team in the league, that played a good game against Instituto but should still be in trouble here against a solid host.