Preview: Cerro Porteño expected to win when Nacional Asunción come to town

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Competition: Paraguay Division 1
Competition: Sat 06.August
Match begins: 23:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio General Pablo Rojas (45876 seats)

Cerro Porteño battle against Nacional Asunción for praise and victory.

Insights:
  • Cerro Porteño have the fewest conceded goals (1) in Division 1

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Porteño and Nacional Asunción.

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Cerro Porteño form and stats

As mentioned below, Cerro Porteño are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Division 1 games.

The Cerro Porteño goalkeeper Jean Paulo Fernandes Filho is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 350 minutes without conceding a goal in the Division 1.

The club members are hoping that Cerro Porteño will fight back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Copa Paraguay fixture against Rubio Nu.

Before that match, a Division 1 win away at Sportivo Ameliano.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Cerro Porteño's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 11 games, won 5 matches, drawn 4 and lost 2.

If you like betting on "both teams to score": A review of the 24 most recent league games shows that 20 of them had goals from both teams.

Early season league goal statistics from Cerro Porteño's 2 home games: 4 goals, 1 conceded.

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Nacional Asunción form and stats

Nacional Asunción are on a winning streak away after three games, as mentioned below. A maximum 6 points in the bag from 2 travels in the Division 1.

Two away games in a row for Nacional, whose coach Achucarro could celebrate last time after the Copa Paraguay win against Sport Colombia.

A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Sol de America.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Nacional Asunción playing away, we found 6 games. Results were 3 away wins, 2 draws and 1 home win.

4 goals so far away for Nacional Asunción, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 2 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

The contenders have played each other before in this season, with the final score Cerro Porteño - Nacional Asunción 1-0 logged in the official records. The referee pulled out his red card when these clubs last faced each other, and the sinner was Palau (Nacional Asunción). Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Cerro Porteño wins - draws - Nacional Asunción wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less. The games between these teams have sometimes been hot-tempered, having seen 5 red cards from the last ten duels.

Top Goalscorers

Nacional AsunciónF. Bruera
F. Bruera
14 goals
PorteñoR. Morales
R. Morales
8 goals
Cerro PorteñoA. Oviedo Álvarez
A. Oviedo Álvarez
8 goals

Cerro Porteño missing players

Nacional Asunción missing players

Cerro Porteño Nacional Asunción
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
26 13 2 Played P 2 13 26
20 11 1 Won W 0 6 10
2 1 1 Drew D 1 3 6
4 1 0 Lost L 1 4 10
45 25 1 Scored S 2 16 35
14 6 0 Conceded C 3 15 35
92% 92% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 96%
65% 69% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 69% 81%
38% 38% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 62% 69%
23% 31% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 15% 19%
8% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 4%
23% 23% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 69% 65%
65% 69% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 15% 15%
19% 15% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 23% 23%
 
5.4 5.5 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 5.3 5.1
4.2 4 2 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 4.8 3.9
1.8 1.6 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.5 2.1
5 0 0 Red cards R C 0 5 6
 
11.7 12.4 7 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 8.7 9.5
5.2 5.8 1.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.5 4
33% 33% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 36% 34%
 
8.5 7.2 3.5 Shots against (avg) S A 8 8.7 8.7
3.2 2.8 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3.8 4.3
Key stats in Division 1 this season:
  • Cerro Porteño have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Cerro Porteño have the fewest conceded goals (1) in Division 1
  • Cerro Porteño have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in Division 1
  • Cerro Porteño have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Division 1
  • Cerro Porteño have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Division 1
  • Cerro Porteño have the most clean sheets (17) in Division 1
  • Cerro Porteño have the the best goal difference (+6) in Division 1
  • Cerro Porteño is in the best form (5-0-1) in Division 1

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Cerro Porteño 4 4 0 0 7 1 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 2 0 0 3 0 6 12
2 Nacional Asunción 4 3 1 0 8 3 2 1 1 0 4 1 2 2 0 0 4 2 5 10
3 Tacuary 5 2 1 2 6 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 1 4 2 2 7
4 Guairena 5 2 1 2 7 6 2 1 0 1 4 3 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 7
5 Libertad 4 2 0 2 10 7 2 2 0 0 8 2 2 0 0 2 2 5 3 6
6 Olimpia 4 2 0 2 7 7 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 0 0 2 3 6 0 6
7 Sportivo Ameliano 4 2 0 2 5 5 3 2 0 1 4 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 6
8 General Caballero JLM 5 2 0 3 7 11 3 1 0 2 4 8 2 1 0 1 3 3 -4 6
9 Resistencia 5 1 2 2 4 8 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 1 5 -4 5
10 Guarani 4 1 1 2 2 4 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 -2 4
11 12 de Octubre 4 1 0 3 3 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 2 2 3 -2 3
12 Sol de America 4 1 0 3 2 7 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 1 7 -5 3

Read more about Division 1

The Primera División, sometimes known as the Copa TIGO or División Profesional, is the top level of football in Paraguay. The season lasts almost a year, running from January to December in two parts; Apertura and Clausura. The twelve teams meet each other twice in each section.