Week 16 brings us a match on Aug 27th where Banfield will play host to Defensa y Justicia in a meeting of these two mismatched Superliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 15 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Banfield sits at 17th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Rosario Central. Agustin Jose Urzi scored the first goal for Banfield in the 22nd minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Rosario Central couldn’t manage to score, and Banfield took the shutout win. Banfield looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 4 of their last 10, while defensa y Justicia sits at 23rd place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-1 loss against Boca Juniors. Luis Vásquez struck first for Boca Juniors in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time on a feed from Sebastian Villa Cano, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed Defensa y Justicia couldn’t manage to score, and Boca Juniors took the shutout win. Defensa y Justicia is looking for direction having earned 11 points in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, in Estadio Florencio Solá, Defensa y Justicia took the match by a score of 3 to 2. Nazareno Colombo struck first for Defensa y Justicia in the 15th minute on a feed from Kevin Gutiérrez, then Miguel Merentiel added another in the 35th minute on a feed from Francisco Pizzini. Banfield hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Pablo Maximiliano Cuadra and Agustin Jose Urzi, and they each have 1 goal.