Deportivo Riestra vs Velez
Deportivo Riestra continue to find difficulties in their first ever season in the top flight. Last Sunday, the team registered a 3-0 home defeat to River Plate in coach Cristian Fabbiani’s debut, conceding all three goals in the first half, and the rout could have been even heavier. As a result, El Malevo are yet to win in the Copa Liga Profesional, having taken a single point as a product of one draw and three losses, which places them bottom in the point-average table and also sharing the worst place of the aggregate rankings with Banfield, Belgrano and Tigre. In addition, Riestra remain pointless at home, having lost to Barracas Central and River Plate so far. The squad are full to host Velez Sarsfield on Thursday.
Velez Sarsfield finally celebrated their first 2024 win last Friday, when they secured a dramatic 3-1 home success over Gimnasia LP thanks to two goals in stoppage time. After one draw and two defeats in the Copa Liga Profesional, El Fortin made it four points in as many rounds to take a breather in their struggle to avoid relegation via the point-average table (just above Deportivo Riestra at the moment). Velez are on three away matches without a win, taking just two points from nine available in that spell.
Riestra’s first ever top division campaign started really bad, they have only one point and zero goals scored after 4 games, but I’m going to trust them again that sooner than later they should finally score so I’m going for the OVER here on this very short totals line. Velez comes from scoring 3 in the last game and also conceding 5 in the previous one, so 2 goals are totally possible here.