San Lorenzo vs Patronato Parana Predictions

Friday’s Superliga Argentina action sees San Lorenzo doing battle with the struggling Patronato. The hosts are expected to claim all three points with relatively few issues.

Having drawn 4 of their opening 5 Superliga league games, as well as having lost 1-0 away to Godoy Cruz last time out, San Lorenzo have made quite a slow start to the new campaign and will be looking to finally get the ball rolling with a win on home soil in this one.

It’s not all doom and gloom in Ciclon ranks, given they have made progress in both the Copa Sudamericana and Copa Argentina, but fans will be expecting an improved performance on Friday. Whilst perhaps not possessing the quality to match last season’s 3rd place finish, the hosts still have enough ability in their ranks to finish far closer to the top than their current 20th placed standing puts them and building on a sequence that reads 6 wins from their last 11 Superliga home matches here would see them shoot up the table.

Meanwhile, with the nucleus of their side torn apart during the off-season, Patronato are really struggling and look certain to be playing B Nacional football next season. Rooted to the bottom of the table after claiming just 1 point thus far, El Rojinegro are also 5 points adrift of safety on the average points table used to relegate sides and in their current shape, they don’t look like escaping anytime soon.

The departure of last season’s impressive striking duo, Adrian Balboa and Sebastian Ribas has Patronato looking incredibly blunt going forward and they’re still yet to even so much as score in the new campaign yet. Such poor showings have cost Juan Pablo Pumpido his job and with no successor yet named, the visitors travel to the capital in complete chaos and totally shot of confidence.

Ultimately, this is a fixture San Lorenzo simply have to be winning. They may not be title contenders this season but man for man, they’re still a far stronger outfit than this Patronato team that looks to be heading only in one direction; and that’s down.

So poor have Patronato been in attack in the action we’ve seen so far; backing San Lorenzo to win to nil looks an excellent way to play. San Lorenzo have kept a clean sheet in 7 of their last 11 home league matches and that’s not a run that looks like ending on Friday; while the hosts should have enough quality at the other end to run out 2-0 winners.