River Plate vs Talleres
Thanks to a goal from Emanuel Mammana in the first half, River Plate secured a valuable 1-0 away success at San Lorenzo in a hard-fought game last Sunday. The team put an end to their two-match losing streak in the Liga Profesional to accumulate 32 points (trailing leaders Atletico Tucuman by six). Following that victory, El Millonario also hold onto one of the Copa Libertadores’ places in the aggregate table. River Plate lost their last home game (2-1 to Banfield) after three victories in a row at Estadio Monumental. Franco Armani, Paulo Diaz and Nicolas De la Cruz are playing for their national squads and will miss out.
Talleres are starting to improve under interim boss Javier Gandolfi. Thanks to their 2-0 home success over Colon last Sunday (with Rodrigo Garro netting a brace), the team made it three league games unbeaten after Pedro Caixinha’s departure (winning two and drawing one) alongside a ticket for the Copa Argentina quarter-finals. La T are now on 22 points in the Liga Profesional (with one game in hand), improving a campaign that seemed terrible a few weeks ago.
River has struggled lately despite last week’s win at San Lorenzo and they will miss some important players, so I can’t see why they would be such big favorites against a Talleres that has improved lately.