📊 Form Guide

Newell´s Old Boys

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Newell´s Old Boys are hoping to win again after their last result, the 2-3 Torneo Apertura victory vs Unión de Santa Fe.

In that match, Newell´s Old Boys had 27% possession and 5 shots at goal with 3 on target. For Newell´s Old Boys, the goals were scored by Jerónimo Russo (38') and Ignacio Ramírez (76'). Union Santa Fe got 28 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. Marcelo Estigarribia (4'), Matías Mansilla (13' Own goal) and Lucas Menossi (87') scored for Unión de Santa Fe.

Newell´s Old Boys have netted 8 times over their past 6 outings. Conversely, the tally of goals that they have conceded in those games amounts to 9.

Instituto

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After a loss in their previous game against Estudiantes de La Plata in Torneo Apertura action, Instituto and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Instituto managed 58% possession and 17 shots at goal with 3 on target. Estudiantes de La Plata got 4 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Brian Aguirre (51') was the scorer for Estudiantes de La Plata.

The trend of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving Instituto has been noticeable of late. Checking on their last 6 outings shows that this has happened 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal aggregate of 6 while Instituto have scored 5. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, though.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels going back to 23/09/2004, both clubs have shared the honours with Newell´s Old Boys winning 3 of those games, Instituto 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 24 overall at an average of 4 goals per meeting.

The last league contest between these clubs was Primera División match day 5 on 14/06/2024 when the final score was Newell´s Old Boys 0-2 Instituto.

On that occasion, Newell´s Old Boys managed 61% possession and 13 shots on goal with 3 on target.

At the other end, Instituto got 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Gastón Lodico (8') and Ignacio Russo (57') scored.

The match was refereed by Nicolás Lamolina.

🗞️ Team News: Newell´s Old Boys

The Newell´s Old Boys boss does not have any fitness worries whatsoever before this game with a fully healthy group available to select from.

In all likelihood, La Lepra look set to use a 4-2-3-1 formation in the match, utilising Josué Reinatti, Armando Méndez, Saúl Salcedo, Nicolás Goitea, Jerónimo Russo, Rodrigo Herrera, Luca Regiardo, Walter Mazzantti, Facundo Guch, J. Gomez Mattar and Ignacio Ramírez.

🗞️ Team News: Instituto

Thanks to a fully healthy group to pick from, the Instituto manager does not have any fitness concerns to speak of before this match.

From our viewpoint, La Gloria (The Glory) seem likely to elect for a 3-4-2-1 lineup using Manuel Roffo, Jonathan Galván, Leonel Mosevich, Agustin Massaccesi, Giuliano Cerato, Gustavo Abregú, Gastón Lódico, Diego Sosa, Jhon Córdoba, Alex Luna and Nicolás Guerra.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Newell´s Old Boys will need to apply a lot of pressure to get anything against this Instituto team who we think will likely end up scoring and staying ahead.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a 0-1 winning margin for Instituto when the referee blows for full-time.

Should be interesting.

Renata Leite, 06:01 26/04/2026