Banfield look to bounce back against a Tigre side aiming to climb the table | OneFootball

Banfield will host Tigre this Friday at Florencio Sola, for the 12th round of the 2026 Apertura Tournament.

Banfield and Tigre will face off this Friday at the Florencio Sola Stadium, in a match corresponding to the 12th round of the 2026 Apertura Tournament, with different realities but the same need to score. The match will start at 21:00, with Luis Lobo Medina as the referee, Diego Ceballos on VAR, and it will be broadcasted by TNT Sports Premium.

The clash appears as a good measure for two teams that need answers. Banfield arrives battered by a campaign that has left them far behind in the fight for qualification, while Tigre tries to regain the solidity it showed in other parts of the tournament and get back to the top of the table.

Banfield, with little margin and obliged to react

The present for "El Taladro" does not allow for many more stumbles. The team led by Pedro Troglio is going through a delicate moment in the championship and sees the possibility of getting into the top eight slipping further away. The six defeats in ten rounds explain much of a campaign that has been losing strength as the rounds go by.

The last defeat left an even heavier feeling. Banfield was playing a competitive match in Arroyito, but the appearance of Ángel Di María was decisive for the comeback of Rosario Central, which ended up hitting "El Taladro" at a very sensitive moment. That defeat once again exposed the fragility of a team that needs to start scoring urgently if it does not want to give up its aspirations too early.

In this context, the duel against Tigre looms as an important opportunity to catch a breath and try to rejoin the fight.

Tigre wants to leave behind its irregularity

On the other side will be a Tigre that is also not going through its best moment, although its reality in the table remains more favorable. The team of Diego Dabove left behind that impactful start in which it showed very strong performances against heavyweights like Racing and River, and now tries to recover that image.

The draw at home against Argentinos Juniors was the third consecutive for "El Matador," a clear sign that the team lost the ability to close matches and turn acceptable performances into victories. In fact, Tigre has gone five rounds without winning, a streak that began to slow its momentum in Zone B.

However, the general irregularity of its competitors allowed it to remain in the top positions. Therefore, a victory in the southern Buenos Aires could help it leave behind the plateau and once again establish itself as one of the group's protagonists.

A duel of needs in the South

The match at Florencio Sola will pit two teams with different urgencies against each other. Banfield knows it needs to win to avoid saying goodbye too early to the fight for qualification, while Tigre seeks to reconnect with victory to prevent a promising start from fading.

With this outlook, the clash promises intensity and tension, at a moment in the tournament where each point starts to weigh more and more.

Probable line-ups

Banfield: Facundo Sanguinetti; Santiago López García, Danilo Arboleda, Nicolás Meriano, Ignacio Abraham; Ignacio Pais, Lautaro Villegas; Neyder Moreno, Tomás Adoryan, David Zalazar; Mauro Méndez.

Time: 21:00

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