In-Form Gimnasia Backed to Beat Racing Club

Argentine Primera Division action takes place early on Saturday, with Racing Club at home to Gimnasia. Gimnasia have shown solid form lately and arrive full of confidence after winning their last four meetings against Racing, with their sights set firmly on another victory.

Racing Club were mediocre in the first phase of the regular season, recording 5 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats from 16 matches, with a goals scored-to-conceded ratio of 1.06 to 0.94. Overall, their performance was no more than average. It is also worth noting that Racing have made unstable starts in each of the last two regular-season phases. In the opening seven rounds of the 2025 second phase, they managed just 1 win, 1 draw and 5 losses, while in the 2026 first phase they opened with three straight defeats, including a loss in the first round.

In addition, Racing have failed to win any of their last six meetings with Gimnasia in normal time and are currently on a four-game losing streak in this matchup. With that poor head-to-head run likely weighing on the players psychologically, Racing look up against it here.

On the other side, Gimnasia were slightly better than Racing overall in the first phase of the regular season, maintaining a 50 percent win rate. Players such as Marcelo Torres and Nicolas Barrios delivered solid performances. In terms of recent form, Gimnasia stayed unbeaten against Russian Premier League sides Zenit St. Petersburg and Dynamo Makhachkala, taking 1 win and 1 draw from those matches.

During that run, Enzo Martinez and Jami Asmelo were among the scorers, showing that Gimnasia can spread the goals around in attack. Given their strong competitive form and their recent dominance over this opponent, Gimnasia are backed to come away with the win.