National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Nacional Asunción or Sportivo Luqueño that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Nacional Asunción form and stats
Last season, Nacional Asunción's Copa Paraguay journey ended in the final.2 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeats. That’s what Nacional Asunción have to build on here at Estadio Luís Alfonso Giagni in the Division 1.
Nacional's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Sportivo Luqueño. The home side are looking to build on that result. A late climax in the match against Sportivo Luqueño as the winning goal came five minutes into overtime; scored by Aquino.
Before that, Nacional Asunción played out a Division 1 draw 1-1 when visiting Cerro Porteno.This is expected to be a close game, with Nacional Asunción perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Nacional Asunción as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Nacional Asunción has won 1 of these, drawn 0 and lost 3.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Nacional as they have a new game in only two days, a Division 1 match thankfully also at home. Libertad are visiting.
Nacional Asunción have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio Luís Alfonso Giagni with 8 goals in 5 league matches. Nacional's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Sportivo Luqueño form and stats
The visitors are W1-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Division 1.
Sportivo Luqueño play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Nacional Asunción. Late heartbreak for Sportivo Luqueño in the Nacional Asunción match, as the deciding 1-2 goal came deep into overtime.
Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Tacuary in the Division 1.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Sportivo manager López as the team has another away game coming up in only two days, this time against Guarani.
As for defending, Sportivo Luqueño rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 8 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Nacional Asunción victories, one draw and four Sportivo Luqueño wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  G. Aguilar Encina 9 goals |   P. Charpentier 6 goals |  J. Alfaro 4 goals |
Nacional Asunción missing players
Sportivo Luqueño missing players
| Nacional Asunción | Sportivo Luqueño | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 30 | 17 | Scored | S | 19 | 35 | ||
| 26 | 11 | Conceded | C | 19 | 35 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 56% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 36% | ||
| 4% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 8% | ||
| 52% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 6 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 5.3 | ||
| 4.5 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.9 | 4.2 | ||
| 2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2.2 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 10.3 | 13.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 11.6 | ||
| 4.5 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4.8 | ||
| 27% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 29% | ||
| 8.8 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.4 | 9.4 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Libertad | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 23 |
| 2 | Cerro Porteno | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 17 |
| 3 | Resistencia | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 17 |
| 4 | Guarani | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 17 |
| 5 | Sportivo Ameliano | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 16 |
| 6 | Guairena | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 14 |
| 7 | Tacuary | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -4 | 14 |
| 8 | Olimpia | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 9 | Nacional Asunción | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -3 | 12 |
| 10 | General Caballero JLM | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 12 |
| 11 | Sportivo Trinidense | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -6 | 12 |
| 12 | Sportivo Luqueño | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 9 |
