Barracas Central vs Boca Juniors Prediction: Will Boca Juniors manage to break its negative cycle?

In the upcoming fixture of Argentina Primera División, Barracas Central will face Boca Juniors at Estadio Claudio Fabian Tapia in Barracas. The home side head here after a draw (1-1) against Atl. Tucuman. The visitors come from a win in the Cup against Olimpo (2-1), but suffered a surprising loss (2-3) in the last round of the league, at home against Instituto.

Betting tips and odds are provided below.

Barracas Central comes to this game after a draw (1-1) against Atl. Tucuman. Despite the position in the table, the truth is that it was Atl. Tucuman entered the game better, causing huge problems for Barracas Central. Barracas Central always found it difficult to impose its game, and only thanks to the excellent performance of its goalkeeper. However, this could do nothing to defend Atl. Tucuman 1-0. In the 2nd half, Barracas Central reorganized itself defensively and offensively and would end up reaching a tie near the end of the game. It was a bad game by Barracas Central, but they still managed to take a point away, which was the most important thing.

However, in this game, they will have to give a lot more, since they are playing against the always difficult Boca Juniors. But at home, Barracas Central has been a difficult team to overcome. Despite the defeat in the first home game, since then they haven't lost any more games at home.

Despite the victory in the last game, for the cup, in the league Boca Juniors is going through immense difficulties. In the last round, they suffered a surprising defeat at home against Instituto (2-3).

It is true that they were always the most dominant team throughout the match, finishing with 69% of ball possession and 18 attempts on goal. But they showed a huge lack of effectiveness and a lot of defensive instability. The injury of Marcos Rojo, boss of Boca's defense, has caused a lot of instability. However, they need to quickly recover and win games if they want to fight for the top spots. It's expected that Boca Juniors will have a very strong start in this game to quickly manage to score and take the 3 points.

There’s just 2 recent games between these two teams, and Boca Juniors won them both. In those 2 games, Boca Juniors were able to score 2 or more goals on each.

It’s hard to predict a winner in this matchup, due to the bad record of Boca Juniors right now, but they are expected to fight for the win, since they desperately need it to keep fighting for the top of the league.