Boca Juniors vs Estudiantes prediction — the Three Pundits debate (Primera División)

Boca can't buy a win and now they can't even play at home — they're borrowing Huracán's ground while the Bombonera gets rebuilt, with a lineup full of kids. Estudiantes just put three past Defensa without breaking sweat and travel with a settled side. Give me the visitors.

Careful, B. Everyone's kicking Boca while they're down. That's usually the week they nick an ugly one. Except there's no nick in this Boca. No spine. No ground. No clue where a goal comes from. I don't trust either side to score. Goalless — you'll turn it off at half time. Boca don't win it, we get paid.

The whole case here is "Boca don't win this" — a crisis team in a borrowed stadium against the most organised side they could have drawn. So the bet has to be the one that pays exactly that, and my own call is a draw, 1-1. The outright on Estudiantes needs them to actually win it; the quarter-line gives half back on a draw; the half-goal cashes the draw whole. I make "Boca don't win" about a two-in-three chance and LowVig pays 1.74 on the half-goal. Cheap insurance — taken.

Estudiantes take it 1-0 — a quiet, professional night against a club that's forgotten how to win.

I'm with the half-goal.