Guaireña will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 15 points behind Cerro Porteño.
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.
Guaireña form and stats
The story so far in the Division 1 for Guaireña at their home stadium (Estadio Parque del Guairá) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Guaireña to get some points in this home game.
The fans are hoping that Guaireña will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Division 1 game against Sol de América (placed 9th). Preceding that match was a defeat to Sportivo Luqueño (0-1).
Guaireña has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Guaireña are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Parque del Guairá in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 7 matches.
Cerro Porteño form and stats
The away team, who have the most clean sheets (4) away in Division 1, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 4 wins, 2 draws and only 1 loss in the Division 1. Impressively, the visitors are on a seven-match winning run which they hope continue versus Guaireña. Cerro Porteño have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Porteño goalkeeper Rodrigo Martin Munoz Salomon is eager to challenge this, with his 360 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Cerro Porteño had fun at their own home (Estadio Parque del Guairá) last time out, beating 12 de Octubre 1-0. E. Giménez scored. Preceding that game was the away victory against Sol de América with the score of 1-0.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Olimpia in just four days.
Cerro Porteño are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 7 games (in the league). Porteño are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 3 goals away.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Cerro Porteño - Guaireña 2-2 entered in the official records.Top Goalscorers
  J. Verdún Duarte 5 goals |  D. Churín 5 goals | W. Ayala Vera 4 goals |
Guaireña missing players
Cerro Porteño missing players
| Guaireña | Cerro Porteño | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | 8 | 4 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 25 |
| 17 | 5 | 4 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 86% | 93% |
| 80% | 57% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 43% | 53% |
| 33% | 14% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 14% | 40% |
| 13% | 14% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 27% |
| 7% | 14% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 20% |
| 53% | 29% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 47% |
| 27% | 43% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 57% | 40% |
| 27% | 43% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 29% | 20% |
| 5.2 | 5.9 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| 3.5 | 3.3 | 1.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
| 2 | 2.1 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 129 | 56 | 19 | Total Shots | T S | 25 | 80 | 170 |
| 46 | 20 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 28 | 73 |
| 37% | 40% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | 34% |
- Cerro Porteño has the fewest conceded goals (10)
- Cerro Porteño has the fewest conceded goals (3) away
- Cerro Porteño has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2)
- Cerro Porteño has the fewest points from losing position (0)
- Cerro Porteño has the most clean sheets (4) away
- Cerro Porteño has the most scored goals in the first half (15)
- Cerro Porteño have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cerro Porteño is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Guaireña has the fewest conceded goals (5) at home
- Guaireña has the most dropped points from leading position (12)
| 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 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 33 |
| 2 | Olimpia | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 31 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 16 | 29 |
| 3 | Libertad | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 29 |
| 4 | Guarani | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 27 |
| 5 | Nacional Asuncion | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 23 |
| 6 | Guaireña | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 18 |
| 7 | River Plate | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -4 | 18 |
| 8 | Sportivo Luqueño | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | -2 | 16 |
| 9 | Sol de América | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 18 | -10 | 16 |
| 10 | 12 de Octubre | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -13 | 15 |
| 11 | General Díaz | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 20 | -17 | 12 |
| 12 | Sportivo San Lorenzo | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 19 | -12 | 9 |