How it happened
Argentinos Juniors beat Tigre 2-1 at the Diego Armando Maradona on 4 October, but the expected-goals column tells a different story. The hosts produced 0.66 xG to Tigre's 1.71 and still took the points, thanks to two first-half goals.
K. Gutiérrez opened the scoring in the sixth minute, and G. Verón doubled the lead in the 42nd, sending Argentinos in 2-0 up at the break of the 22:15 UTC kick-off, played under cloudy skies at 19C.
Tigre pulled one back through J. Domina in the 57th minute, but could not find an equaliser. There were no red cards, and Carlos Andres Gariano refereed the Clausura Group B fixture on Matchday 11.
The numbers
Both sides had 13 shots. Argentinos put five on target to Tigre's four, and turned two of them into goals. Tigre had 55% of the ball and won the expected-goals count by 1.05, a sizeable gap in their favour.
Sebastián Prieto, the Argentinos defender, earned the highest match rating on the pitch, 8.1, with an assist, one key pass and 82 touches over 90 minutes. Kevin Gutiérrez scored from a chance worth just 0.06 xG and finished with a rating of 7.8.
For Tigre, defender Federico Álvarez was rated 7.6 with 79 touches. Goalkeeper Felipe Zenobio made three saves but received a match rating of 5.4.
What it means
The result adds to a solid run for Argentinos Juniors: five wins, three draws and two defeats across their last ten matches, scoring 12 and conceding 8, an average of 1.8 points per match.
Tigre's supplied record over the same span reads two wins, two draws and six defeats, with 8 goals scored and 12 conceded, an average of 0.8 points per match. On this evidence they created enough to take something, but finishing let them down.
The fixture remains closely balanced over time: across 25 meetings, each side has won eight, with nine draws and an average of 2.04 goals per game.