On Fri Sep 9th, in week 18, Estudiantes will play host to Racing Club in a meeting of these two closely matched Superliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 12 degrees, which is great football weather. In their last match, Estudiantes recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Platense. Neither Platense nor Estudiantes could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 17 and 9 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Estudiantes is looking for direction having 4 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches, while racing Club is fresh off their 1-0 shutout win against Argentinos Juniors. Federico Lanzillota scored the first goal for Racing Club on an own goal in the 87th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Argentinos Juniors couldn’t muster any offence and Racing Club ran away with the shutout win. Racing Club is looking for direction having 3 win and 1 losses in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 2 draws apiece.
Racing Club hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last five matches are Tomás Chancalay and Rojas Romero, and they each have 1 goal. Leonardo Heredia and Mauro Boselli are the top scorers for Estudiantes in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.