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River Plate vs Huracan Betting Tips and Predictions

29th July 2021

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Argentina’s Primera Division enters Gameweek number four this weekend and in this article we’ll be taking a look at River Plate taking on Huracan. River Plate finished just one point behind champions Boca Juniors last season while Huracan finished in the bottom four. River will be eager to impress this season and give Boca another challenge at the top of the table while Huracan must do much better than last season. Let’s dig into the stats then and find some potential value in the betting markets for this

River Plate vs Huracan Betting Tips and Predictions River began their season with a bad home defeat to Colon, losing 1-2 on the night and only scoring in the 90th minutes. They huffed and puffed for much of the match, enjoying the vast amount of possession and peppering Colon’s goal with shots all throughout the match but, as you well know, goals win football matches and they simply didn’t score enough. Normal service since then, beating Argentinos Juniors 0-2 in the Copa Libertadores, putting four past Union and then three past Lanus in their most recent league encounter.

Huracan have started the season in decent form, taking four points from a possible nine, manager Frank Dario Kudelka can only be happy with that. Huracan have so far scored and conceded three goals while River has scored five league goals, conceding just two.

River Plate vs Huracan Betting Tips and Predictions These sides haven’t met many times at River’s stadium, El Monumental in recent seasons, indeed this will be the first league meeting between the sides here since 2016. The way the Argentine league is structured, sides just play each other once. However, at Huracan’s Estadio Tomas Adolfo Duco the sides have faced off four times since 2018 with River Plate winning two, Huracan winning one and one ending level. Over 2.5 goals occurred in two of those games, Both Teams to Score only landed once.

River Plate vs Huracan Betting Tips and Predictions Hard to look beyond a River Plate win here, even though Huracan have started the season quite well the gulf between the quality of players in both squads should become evident here as the game plays out. We’d have to look at the Asian Handicap here or the Win to Nil bet, especially with River Plate keeping three clean sheets in their three most recent wins in all competitions..

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