River Plate vs Estudiantes de Rio Cuarto 1-0

River Plate beat Estudiantes de Rio Cuarto 1-0 at El Monumental, with Marcos Acuña’s sixth-minute goal settling it early.

Acuña opened the scoring in the 6th minute and River held that lead to half-time. The interval score was River Plate 1-0 Estudiantes de Rio Cuarto.

Estudiantes made three changes on 45 minutes, bringing on Yeison Daniel Moreno Murillo for Ibrahim Hesar, Matias Valenti for Fernando Rodríguez and Martín Garnerone for Mauro Valiente. River kept the pressure on through the second half and made two changes late on, with Thiago Almada replacing Lautaro Pereyra on 68 minutes, Rafael Borré coming on for Sebastián Driussi on 71 minutes, and then two more on 89 minutes as Facundo González replaced Tomás Ezequiel Galván and Juan Cruz Meza came on for Acuña. Estudiantes later made two more changes on 80 minutes, when Siro Rosané replaced Tomás González and Mateo Bajamich came on for Juan Antonini, but they never found an equaliser.

River had 74% of the ball, 651 passes to Estudiantes' 237, and 28 shots to 1. They also led the shot count on target 8-0, corners 12-2 and expected goals 1.83-0.06, while Estudiantes' goalkeeper made 7 saves and River had none.

Estudiantes were booked twice, with Fernando Rodríguez cautioned in the 2nd minute and Alejandro Martín Cabrera booked in the 16th minute. River had no yellow cards and neither side had a red card.