Nacional Asunción favourites for feisty fight facing Cerro Porteño

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Competition: Paraguay Division 1
Date: Mon 26.August
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Arsenio Erico (7000 seats)

Nacional Asunción will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 3 points behind Cerro Porteño.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Copa Libertadores. That game was also an away game, at River Plate. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

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Nacional Asunción form and stats

OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for Nacional Asunción's two home games in the Division 1 so far this season, having collected 3 points here at Estadio Arsenio Erico.

Nacional Asunción drew their last game, 1-1 away at Sportivo Luqueno. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Libertad.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Nacional Asunción matches with similar probabilities have ended with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeats (from two games).

Early season league goal statistics from Nacional Asunción's 2 home games: 2 goals, 3 conceded.

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Cerro Porteño form and stats

It's gone fairly well in the Division 1 away games so far for Cerro Porteño with six points collected from three matches.

Cerro Porteño play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-2 to River Plate. A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Olimpia in the Division 1.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting River Plate in just three days.

Cerro Porteño are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 5 times in 3 away games so far. Cerro Porteño are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Nacional Asunción - Cerro Porteño 0-3. Nacional Asunción-Cerro Porteño H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Nacional Asunción 2 wins, Cerro Porteño 6 wins, 2 draws. 7 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

J. Larrivey
10 goals / 1 assists
J. Benítez
7 goals
H. Novick
6 goals / 5 assists

Nacional Asunción missing players

Cerro Porteño missing players

Nacional Asunción Cerro Porteño
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
28 13 5 Played 3 14 28
7 4 2 Won 2 8 16
10 2 0 Drew 1 2 6
11 7 3 Lost 0 4 6
25 10 7 Scored 5 26 58
34 17 9 Conceded 2 13 29
89% 85% 100% Over 0.5 100% 100% 96%
61% 46% 60% Over 1.5 67% 79% 82%
36% 38% 60% Over 2.5 33% 57% 57%
18% 23% 60% Over 3.5 33% 29% 36%
4% 8% 20% Over 4.5 0% 7% 14%
54% 31% 60% BTTS 67% 57% 61%
21% 31% 20% Clean Sheets 33% 36% 36%
36% 54% 20% Failed To Score 0% 7% 7%
 
4.5 5.3 4.8 Corners For (avg) 5 5.8 5.8
4.5 4.1 4.8 Corners Against (avg) 5.7 3.7 3.7
2.8 3.2 3 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.7 2.5 2.3
6 3 0 Red Cards 0 2 4
Key stats this season:
  • Cerro Porteño have scored more than double the goals of Nacional Asunción.
  • Cerro Porteño haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Nacional Asunción have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

Nacional Asunción
All Copa Libertadores Division 1 Division 1: Clausura Copa Sudamericana
All Home Away
19-07-19 D1 Nacional Asunción 1 - 3 Olimpia
26-07-19 D1 General Diaz 1 - 1 Nacional Asunción
03-08-19 D1 River Plate 0 - 1 Nacional Asunción
09-08-19 D1 Nacional Asunción 1 - 0 Libertad
16-08-19 D1 Sportivo Luqueno 1 - 1 Nacional Asunción
26-08-19 D1 Nacional Asunción 23:00 Cerro Porteño
31-08-19 D1 Deportivo Santani 22:00 Nacional Asunción
15-09-19 D1 Nacional Asunción 20:00 Deportivo Capiata
20-09-19 D1 Sportivo San Lorenzo 23:30 Nacional Asunción
29-09-19 D1 Nacional Asunción - Guarani
Cerro Porteño
All Copa Libertadores Division 1 Division 1: Clausura
All Home Away
31-07-19 CL Cerro Porteño 2 - 1 San Lorenzo
04-08-19 D1 Cerro Porteño 2 - 2 Guarani
10-08-19 D1 Sol de America 0 - 2 Cerro Porteño
17-08-19 D1 Cerro Porteño 0 - 0 Olimpia
22-08-19 CL River Plate 2 - 0 Cerro Porteño
26-08-19 D1 Nacional Asunción 23:00 Cerro Porteño
29-08-19 CL Cerro Porteño 22:15 River Plate
02-09-19 D1 Cerro Porteño 23:00 River Plate
14-09-19 D1 Libertad 20:00 Cerro Porteño
22-09-19 D1 Cerro Porteño 23:00 Sportivo Luqueno

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Libertad 6 5 0 1 7 2 3 3 0 0 5 1 3 2 0 1 2 1 5 15
2 Olimpia 6 4 1 1 12 6 2 2 0 0 5 2 4 2 1 1 7 4 6 13
3 Cerro Porteño 6 3 2 1 10 4 3 1 2 0 5 2 3 2 0 1 5 2 6 11
4 Sportivo San Lorenzo 6 2 3 1 8 6 4 1 2 1 4 4 2 1 1 0 4 2 2 9
5 Nacional Asunción 6 2 2 2 6 7 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 4 4 -1 8
6 General Díaz 6 1 4 1 7 8 3 0 2 1 3 6 3 1 2 0 4 2 -1 7
7 Guaraní 6 2 1 3 8 11 3 1 0 2 4 7 3 1 1 1 4 4 -3 7
8 Deportivo Capiatá 6 2 1 3 6 9 4 2 0 2 5 5 2 0 1 1 1 4 -3 7
9 River Plate 7 1 3 3 9 10 3 0 2 1 3 4 4 1 1 2 6 6 -1 6
10 Sol de América 6 1 3 2 5 7 3 1 0 2 2 4 3 0 3 0 3 3 -2 6
11 Sportivo Luqueño 7 1 3 3 7 10 3 0 2 1 2 4 4 1 1 2 5 6 -3 6
12 Deportivo Santaní 6 0 3 3 5 10 4 0 3 1 3 5 2 0 0 2 2 5 -5 3

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