Prediction: River win @ 2.60

The Copa Libertadores of America will meet on Tuesday, October 31, the first finalist of its 2017 edition. At the La Fortaleza stadium in Buenos Aires, Lanus receives River Plate in the return match of the semifinals. The start of the confrontation is scheduled for 22:15 (Brasília time).
Playing at home, River Plate made it 1-0 in the first leg. In this way, he will be able to achieve the fight in the decision against the winner of the duel Grêmio vs Barcelona if he wins or draws. Even defeat can serve. In that case, the team would need to make at least one goal and be struck by minimum difference.
To Lanus only the victory by two goals of difference in the regulation time serves to advance towards the next phase. If he repeats the score of 1 to 0, the team will take the decision of the vacancy for the penalty kicks.

Lanus’s recent performance
Should this scenario materialize, it would not be new to Lanus’ players and technical staff. They were in an even tougher situation in the quarterfinals also against an Argentinean rival. They took 2 to 0 of San Lorenzo at the opponent’s home. They returned the score in La Fortaleza and ended up winning the decision on penalties.
The ‘preview’ for the showdown, however, was not encouraging for the Lanus fans. On Saturday, October 28, the team was thrashed by Huracan, 4-0, in a match for the seventh round of the Argentine Championship season 2017/2018.
This caused Lanus to have halted a four-game winning streak and dropped to tenth place with 12 points (four wins and three losses). They were nine points behind Boca Juniors, the leader, who beat Belgrano 4-0 and had a 100% advantage.
It is necessary to take into account that the coach Jorge Almiron did not put the best team that had available in the field. Preserved its main players to try a turnaround this Tuesday.

The current form of River Plate

The River Plate adopted the same strategy and had the same result as the Lanus. Also on Saturday, was thrashed by Talleres, how far, 4-0. His situation is also the same as that of the rival of this Tuesday in the Argentine Championship.
Like Lanus, he scored 12 points (three wins, three draws and one loss). Only appears in the ninth position, one above the opponent in the Libertadores, for taking advantage of the tiebreaking criteria.
If Lanus had their self-esteem increased by the turn of the previous leg, River Plate players boosted their confidence with an even bigger turnaround. In the quarterfinals, they lost 3-0 to Jorge Wilstermann in Bolivia. In Buenos Aires, they applied a thrashing of 8 to 0 maintaining in the fight by the dispute of the title.
Pushed by his fans at the Monumental de Nuñes, the River ended up failing to turn to great advantage the wide superiority that presented to Lanus in the first match for the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores. The club had more possession (58% x 42%), tried more shots on goal (12-1) and was the only one to hit the target (6 to 0).

History of the bouts between Lanus and River
This will be the fourth game between the teams this year. The first, for the Supercopa of Argentina, finished with victory of Lanus by 3 0 in February. The river gave the change soon after. In March, for the second round of the 2016/2017 Argentine Championship, he scored 3-1.