Matías Bustos Milla
11/24/2020 12:46 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 11/24/2020 12:46 PM
It could be a curiosity of the first date or a coincidence of the second.
But after four days of the Professional League Cup, it became a marked trend.
In Argentine soccer, visitors earn more than locals.
Does the absence of public influence?
Is there greater audacity when playing outside the home?
Did the absence of relegation lead teams to risk more?
The data is clear and finds particular details.
So far, 48 League Cup games have been played: there were 14 local victories and 22 for the visitors, with 12 draws.
All to empty stadiums and in the case of River, on a neutral ground (he is home to Independiente after refusing to play his games at River Camp).
The trend includes large teams.
Boca, Racing and Independiente have not yet managed to win at home
.
In fact, Miguel Ángel Russo's team triumphed as a visitor on two occasions and fell in the two that they played at La Bombonera.
Independiente was enough to take the three points from Santiago del Estero but could not beat Colón or Central Córdoba in Avellaneda.
Racing is just as bad outside and inside: they lost all the games.
River won consecutive wins in Mendoza and Banfield, but had fallen against those from the South playing as "
local" in Avellaneda.
The one who took advantage was
San Lorenzo: it is one of the few teams that won its two games at home
.
Now he will receive Aldosivi at the New Gasometer, who triumphed in his two starts from Mar del Plata.
San Lorenzo and Estudiantes played an entertaining match at the Nuevo Gasometer.
The locals won 2-0.
Photo: San Lorenzo de Almagro Press.
Boca's group is curious
.
In 8 games, only one local won: Talleres to Newell's.
Then they all won each other as a visitor.
Of the 24 teams competing in the tournament, only
Racing, Defensa y Justicia, Central Córdoba, Godoy Cruz, Estudiantes (the only team in the tournament that still did not score a goal), Gimnasia and Patronato did not win as visitors.
The record of this beginning of Argentine football coincides with values that occurred in the rest of the planet once the pandemic took over the ball and expelled the fans from the stadiums.
But over time, the trends returned to normal, except in the Premier League, where the percentage of team wins on the road hovers around 50 percent.
Although the average goal is oscillating between 2.4 and 1.9 per date, local football has
Atlético Tucumán as the highest scoring team (11) and San Lorenzo, Colón and Independiente as the least scored (1).
Javier Toledo, Atlético Tucumán forward, celebrates his goal against Unión.
The Dean is the highest scoring team (11) in the Professional Soccer Cup.
Photo: Clarín Archive.
Each protagonist of Argentine football who is consulted assures that the absence of the public is another condition, but that it does not explain the final result.
The particularity of this tournament is in the absence of relegation, the "punishment" for defeat, the lack of pressure due to the absence of the fans.
Can that lead visiting teams to seek victory in another way?
It will be seen ...
JCH.
