Atl. Tucuman vs Barracas Central Prediction: Can Atl. Tucuman win and surpass Barracas Central on the table?

In the upcoming fixture of Argentina Primera División, Atl. Tucuman will face Barracas Central at Estadio Monumental Jose Fierro in Tucuman. The home side arrives here after a draw (1-1) against Instituto, while the visitors come after also a draw (1-1) against Independiente.

Continue reading to find out more about the competing sides and their overall statistics in terms of goals scored and conceded.

Atl. Tucuman comes to this match after a draw against Instituto (1-1). With this draw Atl. Tucuman now has 6 points, placing it 25th in the leaderboard.

Instituto started the match very well and showed that they were coming to win the 3 points. Atl. Tucuman showed many defensive difficulties to contain Instituto, and the opponent's goal would end up appearing in the 27th minute. Fortunately for Atl. Tucuman the game would suffer an unexpected turnaround, with the expulsion of a player from Instituto near the end of the 1st half. At the beginning of the second half, and with one more player on the field, Atl. Tucuman was the most dominant team, managing to reach the tie in the 68th minute with a beautiful goal by Coronel. The game would not have many more goal opportunities and both teams seemed happy with the division of points.

Despite a less than good start to the season, Atl. Tucuman has a good record in the last 5 games, with only 1 loss, 1 win, and 3 draws. In addition, it is at home where they have been stronger, having added 4 of their 6 points at home. Atl. Tucuman will try to keep this good record at home.

Barracas Central comes to this game after an important draw against Independiente (1-1). The Barracas Central team started the game very badly, conceding a goal in the first minute. However, after 5 minutes, they managed to equalize through an offensive corner. Independiente ended up playing with 10 men in the 28th minute and from that moment on, Barracas Central completely took over the game. Despite an impressive 79% of ball possession, Barracas Central would end up wasting the opportunities it had to advance on the scoreboard and the result would end up remaining unchanged. Barracas Central thus added one more point, currently tending to 8 points and placing 18th in the table.

Despite the 8 points and being better ranked than Atl. Tucuman, it is at home that Barracas Central has been experiencing the most difficulties. Despite the victory in the 1st home game, from then on they added two defeats in the remaining games. Without a doubt, Barracas Central will try to return to winning ways against a relatively accessible opponent.

There’s just 1 recent match between these two teams, won by Atl. Tucuman 4-0.

It is expected to be a really close match between these 2 teams, with none of them wanting to lose, so a draw is an expected result.