Velez vs Belgrano
Velez Sarsfield keep their standards up in the fight for their first league title since 2012. Last weekend, the team showed a great display of football to make it 1-1 away at River Plate, a result that allows them to stay as Liga Profesional leaders on 37 points (three above second-placed Huracan) after succumbing to a single defeat across the last 13 matches in this competition (winning ten and drawing two). At home, Velez are on 14 games unbeaten, with 11 victories and three draws since losing to Independiente 1-0 in January.
Belgrano come off a disappointing performance last Saturday, when they couldn’t show big skills and ended up losing to Platense 1-0 at home. That result put an end to their five-match unbeaten streak of two victories and three draws and left them on 25 points in 18 Liga Profesional rounds. Following that campaign, the team are far away from the continental spots in the aggregate table but also safe from relegation threats. In fact, Belgrano claimed a single win across their last eight league games on the road, drawing four and losing three. Rafael Delgado reached the yellow-card limit and is suspended, as is Alejandro Rebola for the second consecutive game.
Velez are just unstoppable lately and they are the biggest candidates by far to win the championship, so I don’t expect them to find any trouble to beat this irregular Belgrano that will have two important missings in defense.