Instituto de Córdoba
- The 19th-placed Instituto de Cordoba have been in the form of their lives recently with 4 wins in their last 5 and 3 successive victories to put them into a position to climb out of the relegation zone.
- Instituto have won 4 of their 7 home league games and scored 11 goals.
Estudiantes de la Plata
- Estudiantes are 4th in Liga Profesional - Apertura 2026 with 24 points from 13 games.
- The visitors are in good form too, having won 3 of their last 5 and lost just once in that run.
- They have lost only one of their 6 road games in LPF - Apertura 2026, conceding 0.50 goals per match.
Head-to-Head
Estudiantes, who have won 1 and drawn 1 of the last 2 head-to-head meetings with Instituto, including a 3-2 home win last year, will be looking for Adolfo Gaich to be their main man again.
Key Players
- He has scored 3 goals in 8 league games, but Tiago Palacios has started to find some form with 3 goals in his last 5 games.
- The main man for Instituto is Alex Luna, who has 5 goals in 13 LPF games so far and scored 3 of his team’s last 6.
Betting Insights
- Instituto’s odds are 2.65 and the visitors are slightly above even at 2.82.
- The odds on under 2.5 goals being scored look good at 1.48, so a low-scoring, tactical game is the main selection for Saturday’s clash.
Prediction
- This is not a traditional derby between two great Argentine rivals, but it is a fixture that matters to both clubs and will be very competitive with the sides sitting on either side of the playoff places.
- Saturday’s home game should be a good test of Instituto’s progress as they take on fourth-placed Estudiantes de la Plata.
