Velez vs Independiente Rivadavia
Velez Sarsfield are the best team in the league at the moment. Last Monday, the team showed enjoyable football to claim an easy 5-0 away victory over Barracas Central at Huracan. Thanks to that success, El Fortin became Liga Profesional leaders on 24 points (alongside Huracan) after making it seven matches unbeaten in this competition, winning six and drawing one. At home, Velez remain without defeat in the last 11, with eight victories and three stalemates in that spell. Tomas Marchiori returns after missing the last game due to personal reasons and Valentin Gomez is ready to start after serving his suspension.
Independiente Rivadavia took another step back in their fight to stay in the top flight last weekend, when they suffered an unexpected 2-0 home defeat to Platense. That result means La Lepra are now on four matches without a win in Liga Profesional action (drawing one and losing three) and remain on 15 points in the respective table, which keeps them bottom in the point-average rankings, trailing Deportivo Riestra by eight points. Therefore, coach Martin Cicotello left the club. Furthermore, Independiente men grabbed a single point from the last 12 available as the visiting side. Coach Alfredo Berti will start his third spell at the club on Saturday. Centre back Tomas Palacios has been sold to FC Internazionale Milano in Italy.
I have to trust Velez here at these good odds, they come from a great performance that allowed them to become leaders and at home they’ve been very strong. They will play against Independiente Rivadavia who are more and more looking like a relegation team lately, and they should beat them.