San Lorenzo or Newells Old Boys to Win Outright
San Lorenzo sit ninth with 17 points from 13 games while Newells Old Boys hold sixth on 20 points from the same number. Both sides enter with similar recent records of two wins in five outings and the pre-match view marks them as evenly matched. Newells Old Boys have kept the tighter defence overall at 0.6 goals conceded per game compared with San Lorenzo’s 1.4. In the last nine head-to-head meetings Newells Old Boys claimed three wins to San Lorenzo’s two with the remaining four ending level. Season-long patterns show San Lorenzo scoring 0.8 goals a game and Newells Old Boys managing 1.0 so neither side looks likely to shut the other out completely. The game at Estadio Pedro Bidegain could turn on whether the visitors maintain their away scoring rate of 0.9 goals per game against a San Lorenzo side that has failed to score in 12 of 30 league matches this season.
