- CD Maipu won their last head-to-head fixture in Primera Nacional 2025 three months ago, beating Almagro 3-1 at home.
- Almagro have won 5, drawn 3 and lost only 2 of their 10 Primera Nacional 2025 home games to date.
- CD Maipu have won 2, drawn 5 and lost only 3 of their 10 Primera Nacional 2025 away games to date.
Tight match on the cards in Buenos Aires
Saturday’s Argentine Primera Nacional 2025 clash between 10th placed Almagro and 8th placed CD Maipu (both 26 points from 20 games) promises to be a close matchup. Our Almagro vs CD Maipu prediction sees this match as a battle between two teams desperate for points in their playoff push.
Tricolores have struggled in recent weeks, losing their previous 2 fixtures 0-1 and 1-0 at home to Tristan Suarez and away to Gimnasia y Tiro, respectively. Jorge Cordon’s side have won only 1 of their 5 matches overall, but they’ve not been losing many and it’s difficult to score against them.
Almagro have scored only 0.70 goals per game on average in Primera Nacional 2025 and conceded only 0.40 per game at home. Cordon’s men are disciplined and rigid in the centre of the field, setting up in a 4-4-2 or 5-3-2 formation and not giving opponents too much space to play in.
That style of play can be effective but also leaves Almagro’s defence exposed if they don’t get forward enough and can make for frustrating games. Ulises Yegros has netted twice in Almagro’s last 5 matches to bring his Primera Nacional tally to 4 goals in 15 appearances, but he doesn’t have much in the way of support.
Since Alexis Matteo’s appointment in late June, Maipu have deployed a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 to stretch Almagro’s shape and push their wings on. That approach has caused teams trouble, but it can also leave the visitors exposed at the back. In this Almagro vs CD Maipu preview, expect tactical tussles in midfield to be key to the outcome.
Recent matches include a 2-2 draw away with Quilmes and a 0-1 loss at home to CA San Miguel. In their 10 Primera Nacional 2025 away matches, Maipu have scored 7 goals.
Pio Bonacci is the league’s danger man with 7 Primera Nacional goals in 20 games this season, 3 of which have come in Maipu’s last 4. While Almagro’s main marksman Patricio Cucchi has managed a modest 4 goals in 15 appearances.
This looks like an evenly balanced clash between two teams that have similar records, both overall and at the home and away, and the Almagro vs CD Maipu odds for a tie or both teams to win are almost identical. The lack of goals these clubs have been scoring and the stubborn way in which they have been defending suggests under 2.5 goals is the safe play in this one. The Almagro vs CD Maipu betting tips also strongly lean towards a defensive contest. Overall, our second Almagro vs CD Maipu prediction is a cautious approach leaning to a low-scoring draw.
