The match against the historic rival of a lifetime is the match that fans first look for as soon as the fixture is known.
And in the
Professional League Cup
there is a special condiment: they are all played on the same date.
Of course, it is worth clarifying that there are few pure classics left.
For example, of the crossings on this seventh day this weekend, barely half can be considered in that category.
These are the ones that were played between Saturday and Sunday: River-Boca, Independiente-Racing, Huracán-San Lorenzo, Gimnasia- Estudiantes and Newell's-Rosario Central.
Therefore, on Sunday night, the question that arises is how the records were after the Argentine soccer classics.
Here we review them.
The Superclásico numbers after the tie between Boca and River
The last one from River, who wants to continue discounting. Photo: Xinhua
El Millonario and Xeneize tied 1-1, with goals from Solari and Medina, in the Superclásico that was played at the Monumental Stadium.
It was the 261st match of the most important clash in Argentine football:
Boca won 91
(334 goals),
River 86
(317) and, with this Sunday, February 25, they tied 83 times.
How is the Avellaneda classic after Racing's victory
Maravilla Martínez celebrates the winning goal.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll
The Academy won 1-0 at the Libertadores de América with a goal from Maravilla Martínez.
It was the 235th match in the history of Independiente and Racing.
Up to this point, Rojo has won 89 (348 goals), Academia 71 (301 goals) and tied 75. El Diablo is 18 ahead.
The widest of all
Bareiro takes the ball against Tobio's mark. Photo: Emma Fernández
On Saturday, Huracán and San Lorenzo also faced each other in a boring draw at the Tomás Adolfo Ducó.
The biggest neighborhood classic in the world, as the San Lorenzo and Huracán fans called themselves, has been in 189 editions, with 87 victories for Ciclón (328 goals), 47 for Huracán (228 goals) and 55 draws.
In addition,
a match was considered lost for both of them
.
The other five
This Sunday night, Rosario Central beat Newell's 1-0 on their home visit.
They played 198 games in the orbit of the AFA and Conmebol, with 65 wins for Canalla (237 goals, including the last one by Malcorra at Marcelo Bielsa), 49 losses (205 goals) and 82 draws.
Taking into account the official classics in the Rosario league and Santa Fe cups, according to the data of colleague Carlos Durhand, in total they played 276 games, with 94 wins for Central and 77 for Newell's (with today's the difference is +18) .
On this seventh date the La Plata classic was also played.
With today's match there are 188 games, with 66 wins for Estudiantes (267 goals), 51 for Gimnasia (221 goals) and 70 draws.
Most of them in the AFA field but they played two international matches.
Banfield and Lanús became a classic in recent decades
.
Some still remember the classics until the 80s in the rise of Los Andes and Banfield on the one hand, and those of Talleres-Lanús on the other.
Even so, throughout history they played 130 games, with 55 wins for Taladro (171 goals), 40 for Granate (157 goals) and 35 draws.
Finally, Talleres and Belgrano have played 41 games in AFA, with 11 wins for T (38 goals), 10 for Pirata (33 goals) and 11 draws.
According to their colleagues from Córdoba (Gustavo Farías and Mauricio Coccolo), not counting friendlies, they have played 255 official matches, including the Córdoba league, with 96 victories for Talleres and 76 for Belgrano (+20 for T).
Made with statistics from Oscar Barnade, Clarín journalist