Nacional Asunción vs Guaireña: Soccer match preview

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Competition: Paraguay Division 1
Competition: Thu 27.October
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Arsenio Erico (5100 seats)

A quick look at the Division 1 table shows that this is top- versus mid-table, but the outcome is not given. Get our Nacional Asunción - Guaireña guide!

Insights:
  • Nacional Asunción have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Division 1
  • Guaireña have the fewest matches under the total-line (11) in Division 1

Nacional Asunción have less rest than Guaireña in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Division 1 game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Libertad, so at least Nacional Asunción are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Nacional Asunción form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estadio Arsenio Erico as Nacional Asunción have scored 10 goals to get 18 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Division 1 are 5-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). days ago.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Santiago Gerardo Rojas Lopez not having conceded a league goal in 317 minutes.

It's back home for Nacional, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Libertad away with the result 1-0. González found the net in that victory. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Achucarro when González scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 59th minute.

Before that, a fine away win at Guaraní. A Copa Paraguay game. 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 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats (from 4 games).

Trouble hitting the net? In this team's last 10 league matches, 8 have contained zero, one or two goals.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Nacional as they are travelling to their away game against Tacuary in the Division 1. That match is four days after this one.

Nacional Asunción are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 9 games. Nacional Asunción have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {4 goals}. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Guaireña form and stats

There's been little loot from Guaireña's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 9 away games in the Division 1. Guaireña only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 5 draws. Two points from the last two away games for Guaireña, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Guaireña are looking to quickly end their 222 minutes long goal drought in the Division 1. The Guaireña goalkeeper Hector Espinola is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 184 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

There were no winners in Guaireña's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Sol de America (placed 10th).

Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to 12 de Octubre.

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 Guaireña playing away, we found 6 games. Results were 0 away wins, 2 draws and 4 home wins.

After this away game Guaireña return home for a Division 1 game against Guaraní. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Guaireña as they have only managed to score 7 times from 9 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 11 goals have been conceded by Guaireña in these games.

Head 2 Head

Nacional have managed a sequence of 4 consecutive games without defeat (2-2-0) when playing Guaireña.

These competitors have played previously this season: Guaireña - Nacional Asunción 1-3.

Top Goalscorers

Nacional AsunciónF. Bruera
F. Bruera
18 goals
Nacional AsunciónJ. Santacruz González
J. Santacruz González
8 goals
GuaireñaN. Viera Recalde
N. Viera Recalde
7 goals

Nacional Asunción missing players

Guaireña missing players

Nacional Asunción Guaireña
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
40 20 5 Played P 5 20 40
19 8 4 Won W 0 4 11
10 5 0 Drew D 2 8 14
11 7 1 Lost L 3 8 15
52 25 8 Scored S 3 19 43
43 23 3 Conceded C 7 24 47
92% 95% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 80% 78%
70% 75% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 60% 62%
52% 50% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 45% 50%
18% 15% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 30% 30%
5% 5% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
55% 45% 40% BTTS BTTS 40% 40% 48%
30% 35% 60% Clean Sheets C S 20% 35% 35%
22% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 60% 45% 40%
 
5.1 4.8 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.2 3.4 4.2
4.2 3.2 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.8 5.7 4.7
2.4 2.1 1.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.1 2
9 3 1 Red cards R C 2 8 9
 
8.2 8.8 10.4 Shots (avg) S ( 5.8 7.2 8
3.4 3.7 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 3.2 3.3
38% 34% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 29% 33%
 
7.9 8.2 10.4 Shots against (avg) S A 14 12.1 10.3
3.5 3.9 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.4 4.6 3.7
Key stats in Division 1 this season:
  • Guaireña have the fewest matches under the total-line (11) in Division 1
  • Guaireña have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Nacional Asunción have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home 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 Nacional Asunción 18 12 5 1 25 11 9 5 3 1 10 4 9 7 2 0 15 7 14 41
2 Olimpia 18 12 3 3 30 16 9 7 2 0 15 5 9 5 1 3 15 11 14 39
3 Cerro Porteño 18 11 5 2 26 11 9 5 3 1 16 7 9 6 2 1 10 4 15 38
4 Libertad 18 8 3 7 29 23 9 6 2 1 21 9 9 2 1 6 8 14 6 27
5 Tacuary 19 7 4 8 23 22 9 4 3 2 12 8 10 3 1 6 11 14 1 25
6 Guaireña 18 6 6 6 22 21 9 5 1 3 15 10 9 1 5 3 7 11 1 24
7 General Caballero JLM 18 6 3 9 21 24 9 4 2 3 12 12 9 2 1 6 9 12 -3 21
8 Sportivo Ameliano 18 6 2 10 21 25 9 6 0 3 14 8 9 0 2 7 7 17 -4 20
9 Guaraní 18 5 5 8 18 24 9 4 2 3 14 11 9 1 3 5 4 13 -6 20
10 Sol de America 19 5 5 9 20 29 10 4 3 3 13 11 9 1 2 6 7 18 -9 20
11 Resistencia 18 5 5 8 15 24 9 3 2 4 6 10 9 2 3 4 9 14 -9 20
12 12 de Octubre 18 2 2 14 11 31 9 1 1 7 4 14 9 1 1 7 7 17 -20 8

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.