Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sol de América & Nacional Asunción face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Copa Paraguay. All the pre-match information is available here!
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
It's no vacation for neither Sol de América nor Nacional Asunción as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Sol de América form and stats
Sol de América was eliminated in the final last season in the Copa Paraguay.When playing at home in the Division 1, Sol de América have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Sol de América, who played 1-1 against Sportivo Ameliano. That match was also played at this venue (Estadio Luis Alberto Salinas Tanasio). The hometeam coach Guiñazú made a successful contribution in the game against Sportivo Ameliano, bringing on Ozuna who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw.
Heartbreak before that as América lost 0-1 at Tacuary's place.There will be little rest for Sol de América after this match as they are travelling to Olimpia for a Division 1 game in only four days.
The Sol de América fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 4 matches. As for guarding their own goal, América have only let in 1 goal at home.
Nacional Asunción form and stats
They also participated in Copa Paraguay last season. This ended in the 1st round.3-2-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Nacional Asunción in their Division 1 matches away.
Nacional Asunción had fun at their own home (Estadio Luis Alberto Salinas Tanasio) last time out, beating Tacuary 1-0. Bruera scored. Bruera came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Tacuary last time out, making the manager Achucarro feel like a tactical genius.
Preceding that game was the away Division 1 victory against Guairena with the score of 3-1.Nacional Asunción have another fixture that requires travelling in just four days, a Division 1 game versus Sportivo Ameliano. A difficult timetable for the visitors!
The travelling fans enjoy Nacional's attacking play in away games, having scored 8 goals in 5 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Nacional Asunción as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Sol de América-Nacional Asunción H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sol de América three wins, Nacional Asunción four wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  F. Bruera 16 goals | J. Santacruz González 5 goals | R. Prieto 4 goals |
Sol de América missing players
Nacional Asunción missing players
| Sol de América | Nacional Asunción | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 12 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | ||
| 24 | 12 | Scored | S | 19 | 35 | ||
| 36 | 11 | Conceded | C | 12 | 26 | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 55% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 16% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 48% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 24% | ||
| 3.3 | 3.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.7 | ||
| 5.4 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 4.8 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.9 | 2.5 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 5 | 7 | ||
| 7.7 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.7 | 8.8 | ||
| 3 | 3.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 3.6 | ||
| 32% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 37% | ||
| 10.1 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 8 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Olimpia | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 19 |
| 2 | Nacional Asunción | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 18 |
| 3 | Cerro Porteno | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
| 4 | Libertad | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 5 | Tacuary | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | Sportivo Ameliano | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 13 |
| 7 | Guairena | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 11 |
| 8 | Resistencia | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 11 |
| 9 | Sol de América | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 12 | -6 | 10 |
| 10 | Guaraní | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 8 |
| 11 | General Caballero JLM | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -8 | 8 |
| 12 | 12 de Octubre | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -11 | 3 |
